Winston (SM 0620) (world)

Winston/Querion (Spinward Marches 0620) Milieu 1116 E887573-6 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 5 Moderate (500 thousand) Government 7 Balkanization Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K5 V M9 V
Worlds	6
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Balkanization
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	2323
Army Size (BEs)	3
Economic Details
Technology Level	6
Economic Extension	742-5 Resources 7 Few Labor 4 Moderate (50 thousand) Infrastructure 2 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-2
Resource Units	28
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-E
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Winston is an agricultural world with an ideal environment for producing food from plants, animals, or other forms. It supports a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system hosts a population between 100 thousand and 1 million. It is a member of Sword Worlds Confederation in the Querion Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Sword Worlds.

Astrography & Planetology

It is a non-industrial, agricultural garden world with a dense oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere.

Winston is a member of the Spinward Main.

Binary Solar System

Winston Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Winston K5 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.7	4300 - 4440	0.28697
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0033	0.0444	0.56 - 1.01	0.33	3.3
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	5
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Winston M9 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.079	2350 - 2380	0.00014
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0005	0.001	0.01 - 0.03	0.05	0.5
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	1

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

0620 Winston (Darrian)

Starport: Class I.

Diameter: 7,644 miles (12,200 km).
Atmosphere: Dense oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 68%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 528,000.
Government: Martial Law (under a Darrian admiral).
Control Level: 1.
Tech Level: 6.
World Trade Number: 2.5.

Lifeforms

Winston has a thriving biosphere, with jungles and forests dominant on all three of its continents. Indigenous life forms are primarily insectoids, though larger forms feature a muscular-pumped respiratory system, and so can achieve disconcertingly large sizes.

• Yphitz

History & Background (Dossier)

It is one of the Entropic Worlds and historically, both the Darrian and Sword Worlds confederations have laid claim to the system. Winston was a thinly colonized Darrian world before being taken by the Sword Worlds during the Fourth Frontier War. The Imperium has generally backed Darrian claims while the Zhodani Consulate has backed the Sword Worlds claim.

In 1105 Winston was a Sword Worlds holding.

World Starport (Sp)

Winston has a Class E Starport, a frontier quality installation with few 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 a downport.

History-Era: Milieu 1120

Throughout the Fifth Frontier War the Sword Worlds' Joyeuse Fleet patrolled Winston as part of the larger Darrian Campaign. When the Joyeuse Fleet was driven off by Imperial forces, the Darrians seized Winston and the armistice was arranged before the Sword Worlds could retake the system.

Winston is a balkanized world that has lost a great deal of its population and technology in the repeated fighting between Darrians and Sword Worlders. Some nations on Winston remain sympathetic to the Sword Worlds, but most are loyal to Darrian.

Timeline

• -924: The Maghiz causes the collapse of interstellar Darrian society; Winston colony left isolated.

• -855: Draygon's Disease, a terrible plague, rapidly destroys the first colony.

• -271: Winston is found abandoned by a scout ship from Mire. Old agricultural settlements have grown wild but the transplanted crops are still present. Entrope establishes a new colony.

• -204: A medical centre is rediscovered during an archaeological survey sent by Daryen. The entire world is quarantined to prevent the escape of Draygon’s Disease. However, subsequent decades of analysis fail to find any microorganism that could explain the ancient plague.

• Circa 600: The First Frontier War sunders Winston from the rest of the Confederation. Having no real industry, Winston is left alone in exchange for its food exports.

• 1082: The Fourth Frontier War is disastrous for Winston. Over a third of its population and most of its technology are lost. New Sword World occupation starts.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc W. Miller, Robert Parker, Nancy Parker, Matt Renner. Darrians (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 23,32.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 6-7.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 40. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 44.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 99. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 56-60. (UWP only)