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Revision as of 00:40, 19 August 2015
| Argiluu/Ushra (Dagudashaag 1317) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Milieu 0 | B68A999-A
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| Classic Era (1116) | B68A997-C
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | K8 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Argiluu is a high-population, pre-rich water world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.
- This world has 90% or more of its surface covered in an ocean of water.
- The inhabitants of this world live on the roughly 10% of exposed land mass, in underwater colonies, on city ships, or similar arrangements.
- It lacks adequate resources to expand its economy to a rich status.
- Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
- It is a mainworld which is a satellite of either a gas giant or another world.
- It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Ushra Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector in the Domain of Vland.
- This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
Description
The world of Argiluu is literally a "molten snowball": the crust, and much of the mantle of this formerly icy outer gas giant satellite, melted when its primary star evolved off the main sequence. Argiluu’s world-ocean is at least 60 kilometres deep, according to current estimates, its depths beyond the range of the most advanced densitometers. Terraforming has converted the original ammonia-water vapour atmosphere into a breathable nitrogen-oxygen mix.
The world has no land-masses as such - major settlements are tunneled into huge naturally-occurring rafts of foamed carbonaceous material known as "tarballs". Valuable organic chemicals are extracted from the tar, and the seawater is also rich in dissolved minerals.
History & Background
Argiluu derives from the Old High Vilani for "no sound ocean" – the primitive sonar systems used in the earliest Vilani surveys produced no returns in many areas of the world-ocean.
References & Contributors
- Jae Campbell - MegaTraveller Periodical: Signal-GK Issue #3 - HIWG
- T4 First Survey
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com