Windfleet (world)

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Windfleet/Windfleet (Gateway 1413)
Classic Era (1116)
D779988-9
StarportD Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g)
Atmosphere7 Standard (tainted)
Hydrographics9 Wet World 90%
Population9 High (3 billion)
Government8 Civil Service Bureaucracy
Law8 High Law (controlled blades)
Tech Level9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary F5 V M8 V
Planetoid Belts 1
Gas Giants 0

Windfleet is a high-population, industrial world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

  • As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
  • Its economy is rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to rapidly improve barring outside forces.
  • It is a member of the Plavian League in the Windfleet Subsector of Gateway Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]

The system is owned by the Plavian League.

The Hochiken People's Assembly has designs on this world and the surrounding cluster, which is known as the Heptad. The worlds of the HPA are poor in natural resources and minerals, especially heavy elements. Control of the Heptad, and especially metal-rich Windfleet, would solve many of the HPA's resource problems.

Stellar Data[edit]

Windfleet has two stars in the star system.
Windfleet
Solitary F Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
F5 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 1.33 6350 - 6550 2.71319
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0137 0.1366 1.49 - 2.6 1.37 13.7
Orbit #  * 0 4 4 7
Remarks
Windfleet
Solitary M Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
M8 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.085 2420 - 2570 0.00018
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0011 0.0011 0.01 - 0.03 0.11 1.1
Orbit #  *  *  * 0 3
Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

The Windfleet Concourse was a nation that united the seven systems of the Windfleet Cluster, AKA the Heptad. It was absorbed into the Plavian League.

World Starport[edit]

Windfleet has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Population (P)[edit]

Windfleet has a population of 3,000,000,000 sophonts (billions).

World Technology Level (TL)[edit]

Windfleet possesses a Technology Level of TL–9.

  • Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics and satellite communication and data networks.
  • Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fusion power.
  • Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
    • Land: Ultra high-speed trains and early grav vehicles.
    • Water: High efficiency sailcraft, multihulled seacraft, improved artificial gills.
    • Air: Tiltrotorcraft, exotic VTOL's, PARWIG, and rocket-assisted suborbitals.
    • Space: SSTO spacecraft, early military spacecraft (System Craft), and interstellar STL starships
    • FTL: Prototype Jump Drive-1.

World Government (G)[edit]

Windfleet is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy leadership influences policy. The government leadership may select the bureaucracy leadership, but not its membership. Usually the governmental leadership is divided, or incapable of setting policy, and the bureaucracy provides a stabilizing influence. This ruling bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucractic apparatus or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence, like the military.

World Military[edit]

Heavy orbital and ground-based defenses include aerospace interceptors, heavy missile emplacements and orbital forts. These are not intended to defeat an attacker, but to free battle units to maneuver without being too closely tied to planetary defense. The assumed attacking force is HPA raiders.

World Law (L)[edit]

Windfleet has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All blade weapons and firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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