Tarsus (SM 1138) (world)

Tarsus/District 268 (Spinward Marches 1138)
Classic Era (1116)	B584620-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 6 Moderate (2 million) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 0 No Law Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
New Era (1200)	B584620-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 6 Moderate (4 million) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 0 No Law Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K9 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Tarsus (SM 1138) is a nonindustrial, rich, agricultural world with improving living conditions due to a bustling agro-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 is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Its economy is bustling and an increase in living conditions is expected in the near future.
• It is a client state of the Third Imperium in the District 268 Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Description (Planetology)

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

An independent world in District 268.

It was settled between 450 and 462 by 19,125 exiles from Fornice. The venture was well organized and the colony avoided any significant technological regression. Tarsus achieved independence from Fornice in 502.

The population grew slowly but steadily over the centuries, supplemented from time to time by immigrants from other worlds. Among them were the members of the Tizonian 3rd Lift Regiment and their families, who came to Tarsus in 625 fleeing war-crime accusations, and settled in an empty region called Regiment. Their descendants have since been integrated into the mainstream of Tarsan society.

In 780, Tarsus joined Motmos (Spinward Marches 1340) and Tarkine (Spinward Marches 1434) in establishing the Ag Worlds Combine, a loose cartel that was designed to halt a spiral of mutually-destructive price competition in the lucrative agricultural export markets of Forine and Collace. It supplies food to much of District 268, which includes many worlds whose inhospitable and/or degraded environments cannot support conventional agriculture. The Ag Worlds Combine's headquarters is located on Motmos.

In the same year that the Ag Worlds Combine was established, large numbers of refugees fleeing the newly-established religious dictatorship on neighboring Pavabid (Spinward Marches 1238) settled on Tarsus. Another wave of immigrants arrived in the early 800s as people fleeing the Psionic Suppressions sought refuge beyond the Imperial border. Due in large part to the presence of their descendants, Tarsus exhibits little of the psionophobia found on most other worlds in the Spinward Marches. Indeed, the megacorporation SuSAG operates a large psi drug manufacturing plant on Tarsus.

In 1110, a group of primitive humans were discovered living deep in the Tangle Wald, an inaccessible forest far from the main Tarsan settlements. These turned out to be the descendants of a Sword Worlds petroleum mining colony that had been established in -104 only to be abandoned to its own devices just two years later when the outbreak of the War of the First Rebellion led to the collapse of the Sacnoth Dominate. Evidence found over a century later at the original colony site led to the erroneous conclusion that its last survivors had died off around -60. The Forest People, as they are called, were declared wards of the Tarsan government in 1113.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Classic Traveller Tarsus box set
• GURPS Traveller: Sword Worlds
• GURPS Traveller: Behind the Claw
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science