Zukchurukh (world)

Zukchurukh/Mimu (Dagudashaag 0108) Milieu 1116 C582867-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 8 Moderate (700 million) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M2 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	5
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Captive government
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	8858
Army Size (BEs)	2000
Economic Details
Technology Level	8
Economic Extension	G78+1 Resources G Extremely abundant Labor 7 Moderate (70 million) Infrastructure 8 Generally available Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	896
GWP (BCr)	2,563
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	14,780
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	700,000
Port employees	3,010
Port passengers (annual)	762,500

Zukchurukh has a short-sleeve breathable atmosphere. The system has a population between 100 million and a billion sophonts. The governance of this world is from Mimu (Dagudashaag 0208). This planet is tidally-locked to its primary star with a hot region facing the primary, a cold region on the other side, and a habitable area in the twilight zone between. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Mimu Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Lancian Cultural Region and the Domain of Vland. Zukchurukh, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdoms of a baron and a viscount. All three are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.   During the Long Night this world was named Nipa.

Astrography and Planetology

Zukchurukh is located on the Vilani Main.

Stellar Data

Zukchurukh has a solitary primary star.

Zukchurukh
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0041	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.41	4.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

Mainworld Data

Zukchurukh is a tidally-locked world, and a S'mrii Prime world (eminently suitable for S'mrii habitation).

History & Background / Dossier

Zukchurukh has a majority S'mrii population, first settled around -11300 with sublight Ramships. The name is S'mrii for 'navigational error' as the initial scoutship believed initially that they had in some way come full circle and arrived back at Mimu, so alike did Zukchurukh initially appear to the homeworld. The illusion was shattered when it was realised that Zukchurukh was a tidally-locked world. It was still a prime S'mrii site. The Twilight band is much cooler at 185° Kelvin and the S'mrii have to live more towards the centre of the brightside.

The mainworld derives its wealth from production and research into medicine, genetics and cybertech, particularly in regard to climatic adaptation. There are drugs to overcome low oxygen atmospheres (aka altitude sickness), gene therapy for modifying sweat glands to become more effective (in high temperature environments) and cybertech implants/ hardening of body parts.

A thriving community of belters mines the system's belts.

World Starport

Zukchurukh has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features 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 Population (P)

Zukchurukh has a population of 700,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).

World Demographics

Most of the inhabitants (80%) are S'mrii. There are also Human settlements in the system, mainly in the mining bases of the Ckur-ka belt and the Khu Trade Centre in orbit round the Vivka gas giant. Half the Human population and nearly a third of the S'mrii are followers of the Lancian culture.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Kehuu, the primary language of the Lancian Cultural Region.
• Sfuizia, the primary language of the S'mrii, used throughout the S'mrii ConSentiency.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
  • Note that this language is in official use (as it is throughout the Imperium) but in practice is disfavoured by most S'mrii.

World Technology Level

Zukchurukh 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

Zukchurukh has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. This is a colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.

This system is governed from Mimu.

World Military

Many of the locals are followers of the Lancian culture. Lancians do not like the idea of permanent military forces, and even less the idea of serving in them. As a result, most standing forces, the Pulehov, are small and often composed of non-Lancians. In times of war, the combined Lancian community -- the peoples' army, the Silkku -- is the ultimate defense of this and other Lancian worlds.

World Culture

S'mrii society is highly stratified and formed from large socioeconomic groups known as phyla. Each phylum has an overall rank in S'mrii society, which is widely described as pyramidal. Phyla vary widely in size, having anywhere between 6,000 and 15 million members.

• The basic social unit within a phylum is the Ka'usui (or "family") consisting of a pair of S'mrii, their children, and attendant Kiakh'iee. Three or four ka'usui make up an Sk*khua ("circle") which is often equated to the Human extended family.
• Loyalty to the phylum governing council is heavily emphasized as part of a S'mrii education.

Zukchurukh is strongly influenced by the Lancian culture.

References

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): 50. - HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 78.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 379.