Zandervoort

A major city on Mimu. Known to Humans as "Snakepit", Zandervoort has a population of forty million. It is the primary Human enclave on Mimu, but its population is highly cosmopolitan.

The descendants of corporate elite from the Rydell-McRae corporation, the Human sect known as Ahmarr, rule here -- and with a languid, seemingly disinterested hand. Snakepit is a freeport, a rough-and-tumble marketplace. Hundreds of thousands of Imperial tourists pass through each year.

One overriding rule governs all of Zandervoort's activities: no killing. Slug throwers and energy weapons are prohibited within the city's confines. All residents and visitors wear miniaturised monitor-transceivers which constantly check the wearer's heart and respiratory function. Ostensibly, these allow everyone to reap the benefits of extensive free medical services in the case of an emergency, but they also trigger a rapid and overwhelming response from PanPhylum security if the monitor registers a violent death.

Geography

Zandervoort is located in the Skiree Mar highlands of Mimu, in the sinkhole known as the Chee'mrskur Mikmui, "the world's naval".

The Ahmarr rule from a gravitic garden-palace above an island reserve in the centre of Lake Rydell.

Zandervoort Proper, or "Northside" in local parlance, is a gleaming, high-tech compound; from here, groundhoggers offer package tours of S'mrii cultural sites across Mimu. Across Lake Rydell, within the shaded, foliage-draped south cliffs of the sinkhole, are S'mrii Excludes, Lancian dreamweavers, and Alikasch cybermercs, among any number of other intriguing merchants.

Valaskialf Arena, on the shores of Lake Rydell in the shadow of the Ahmarr Palace, is known for numerous staged combats each day. These feature both individuals and groups, duels between disputees and organised sporting combats between professionals for rich prizes. Three Zura S'mrii seated above the centre of the arena monitor the aggression levels of the combatants.

References and Contributors

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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Jae Campbell, Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Mimu Subsector." Signal-GK 05 (1992): 19-20. via HIWG
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 245-246.