Lydia (world)

Lydia/Glisten (Spinward Marches 1733)
Classic Era (1116)	E310430-6 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (90 thousand) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 0 No Law Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
Hard Times (1130)	E310430-6 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (90 thousand) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 0 No Law Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M4 II
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Lydia is a high-population world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Glisten Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector in the Domain of Deneb.

Description (Planetology)

The whole population of Lydia live in a single natural cavern, surviving on hand-made life support machinery. The largest living thing on the surface is the Akenplant, a cactus like growth surviving on the surface. The roots of the Akenplant can split rocks to enable the plant to survive in unlikely places, a trait exploited by the locals.

TL–6 is barely sufficient to maintain the colony domes in the trace atmosphere.

History & Background (Dossier)

A non-industrial world located in the Glisten Subsector of the Spinward Marches.

Formerly a mining colony founded to exploit massive quantities of silver, it has been on the decline since the silver gave out around 1020. ConTech closed the starport in 1035, and most of the population emigrated. The remainder are expert garbage pickers--a fair amount of useful salvage at TL–12 remains from the mining operation, enough that free traders occasionally call to pick up the junk.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• The Zhodani Base - Rob Dean
• Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society Online
• The Spinward Marches Campaign
• GURPS Traveller: Behind the Claw

A campaign setting detailing the District 268, Glisten, Egyrn, and Pax Rulin subsectors in the year 400 plus an adventure for the setting were published in JTAS Online. You need to be a subscriber to see it. You can find the setting here (players' information) and here (GM's information), and the adventure here.