Zoloto (world)

Zoloto/Tiachtiebria (Fulani 1716)
Classic Era (1116)	C45878C-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 7 Moderate (30 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law C Extreme Law (no privacy) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K2 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	4

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Zoloto is an agricultural world.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by indigenous Sophonts located in the Tiachtiebria Subsector of Fulani Sector.

• It is a main world which is a satellite of either a gas giant or another world.
• It is a balmy tropical world, with a climate of high temperatures.
• It is the homeworld of the Zarodysh.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Zoloto has a solitary primary star.

• It is an orange main sequence.

Monostellar System

Zoloto Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Zoloto K2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.82	4830 - 5100	0.49928
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0036	0.0586	0.7 - 1.26	0.36	3.6
	Orbit #	*	*	3	1	5
	Remarks
	None

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld.
• x2 secondary rocky worlds.
• x1 planetoid belt.
• x4 gas giants.

Mainworld Data

Zoloto is a satellite of a gas giant.

The mainworld and its gas giant primary orbit within the star's Habitable Zone.

• They lie within the zones warmer inner H+ region
• They receive higher levels of stellar energy.
• The gas giant is "puffy", hot and swollen due to the energy it receives from the star.

• They orbit inside the stars Jump Shadow.

Mainworld Size (S)

Zoloto is a Meso World between 5,600km and 7,200km in diameter. The world has low gravity between 0.32G and 0.46G. The horizon will appear about 3.6km away.

• Tidal stresses generated by the worlds gas giant primary world cause frequent seismic and geological activity.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Zoloto has a pressure of 0.43 to 0.70 atmospheres. The Thin Atmosphere does not require survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Zoloto has 75-85% of its surface covered by liquid water with a few large continents and extensive islands. Wilderness refueling is possible.

• The world experiences high temperatures.
• The oceans experience extreme tides.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

• Locally, detailed maps may be available.
• Verified updated charts are constantly sought.
• Detailed survey data commands premium prices.

(Placeholder chart, predominantly watery world.)

Native Lifeforms

Abundant native life occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

History & Background (Dossier)

Zoloto is bustling, with a thriving economy and an advancing technological base.

• The resources of the system are being exploited.

It is the homeworld of the Zarodysh.

• They are irritable, aggressive, forest-dwelling centipede-like carnivore ecologists with an appreciation of music.
• First contact occurred millennia ago.

Many businesses, organizations, and private interests are active within the system.

• Commercial traffic is fairly frequent: ships regularly arrive and depart.
• Commo picks up constant signals and private chatter. Communications are in local languages and Zdetl.
• A number of commercial navigation beacons are active.
• A few vessels will be operating among the other worlds and moons that make up the system.

Note that social data, though only 40 years old, may be out of date.

• Verified updated data is constantly sought.

World Starport (St)

Zoloto has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which includes amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Demographics (P)

Zoloto has a population of 30 million Zarodysh.

Urbanization

Multiple large urban centers are surrounded by smaller satellite communities.

• Inhabited areas are dotted across the world.
• Large regions of the surface of the world remain as wilderness.

World Technology Level (T)

Zoloto possesses a Technology Level of TL–8.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics, improved telephones, and satellite communication and data networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Improved geothermal and improved batteries.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Advanced automobiles.
  • Water: Triphibians and early artificial gills.
  • Air: Improved helicopters and hypersonic jets.
  • Space: Space shuttles, early space stations, and improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

World Government (G)

Zoloto is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government is 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. The bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucracy or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence like the military.

World Military

Approximately 120,000 personnel.

World Law (L)

Zoloto has an extreme law level which covers every area of interaction. Laws are complex, detailed, and difficult to understand. Every interaction with the government requires an Advocate. Law enforcement is omnipresent and strict. Legal proceeding can take months to years to resolve and may involve dozens of people. A world with this law level may be an Amber Zone or a Red Zone. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (with no exception for private residences; visiting starships are only protected so long as they stay within designated starports and approach corridors). Civilian movement is rigidly controlled. Travel documents are frequently checked. There is no legal concept of privacy (save for those who can claim necessity for official government business). The police are free to inspect anyone and anything at any time.

World Economy

• Resources: C (very abundant)
• Labor: 6 (millions)
• Infrastructure: 7 (generally available)
• Efficiency: -2 (fair)

Trade Data

• Importance: 0 (unimportant)

World Culture

• Homogeneity: 4 (harmonious)
• Acceptance: 7 (aloof)
• Strangeness: 1 (very typical)
• Symbols: C (very abstract)

World Timeline

• 300-420: the First Survey charts the system.
• 995-1065: the Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published.

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.

• Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 50, 51. (sector named, dot map provided locating world)
• Author & Contributor: Jo Grant of CORE (generated data) / Geir Lanesskog (refinement of data)
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS