Loren (world)

Loren/Caledon (Reaver's Deep 2311)
Classic Era (1116)	C57459C-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 5 Moderate (200 thousand) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law C Extreme Law (no privacy) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M5 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Loren is an agricultural, nonindustrial world still lacking adequate means to expand its economy.

• 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 requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• This dangerous world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it dangerous to visitors.
• This is a tidally-locked world with one side permanently locked to a gravity source and the other permanently facing away. Most commonly locked worlds are natural satellites of a larger planet or gas giant.
• This world is a "Twilight Zone World", a planet that is tidally-locked to its star. It has a hot side that permanently faces the star, a cold side that permanently faces away, and a narrow twilight zone in-between.
• It is a client state of the Third Imperium in the Caledon Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector.
• This world has an Imperial Scout base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.
• This is the homeworld of the Bruhre, a sophontoc species and a minor race.
• The population of this world is nearly 100% Bruhre.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Loren is a fascinating world, an example of a highly unusual ecology at work.

• The world has been colonized, albeit lightly by a nonhuman Imperial race originating in the Daibei sector, the Bruhre.
• Locked with one side constantly towards its star, the world is not the classic "twilight zone" planet, because even the dayside temperatures under the feeble light of Prometheus are barely over freezing.
• Twilight zone temperatures are far below the range for human comfort.

Native Lifeforms

Nonetheless, this singularly inhospitable world does support life. In the absence of an effective form of photosynthesis, the plant life of Loren relies on a chemosynthetic base; life flourishes even in some portions of the nightside, where volcanoes supply sufficient heat and a source for a variety of chemicals necessary for the world's life-processes. Higher forms of animal life also exist, in a complex food chain not entirely unlike our own, but with intriguing variations.

Native Sophont: Bruhre

No information yet available.

System Data

Primary: Prometheus, spectral class M0V. ICN S4G0701M0V. Mass, 0.489 standard. Stellar Diameter, 0.549 standard. Luminosity, 0.04 standard.

Planetary System: Four major bodies. One inhabited world (Loren, I). One gas giant in system. No planetoid belts in system.

I Loren: Mean orbital radius, 26.93 million kilometers (.18 AU). Period, 39.9 days. No satellites. Diameter, 8552 Kilometers. Density, 1.01. Mass, 0.247 standard. Mean surface gravity, 0.63 G. Rotation period: none (tidal lock with primary). Axial inclination 2°49'20.2". Albedo, 0.26. Surface atmospheric pressure, 1.1 atm. Composition, oxygen-nitrogen mix with suflur and sulfur compounds taint; filter mask required to breathe atmosphere. Hydrographic percentage, 40%; composition, water and frozen water-ice. Mean surface temperature, dayside, 5°C; nightside, -124°C.

History & Background (Dossier)

Loren is not actually part of the Imperium, but an IISS base is present, and the Bruhre government of the world is answerable to their own homeworld.

• Imperial membership is likely to be granted within the next fifty years.

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

• Periodical: Traveller Chronicle 7 in Article: 'A Pilot's Guide to the Caledon Subsector'
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science