Saurus (SM 1320) (world)

Saurus/Vilis (Spinward Marches 1320) Milieu 1116 D888588-7 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 5 Moderate (800 thousand) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G8 V M1 V
Worlds	13
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	5357
Army Size (BEs)	2
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	742-2 Resources 7 Few Labor 4 Moderate (80 thousand) Infrastructure 2 Extremely limited Efficiency -2 Fair
Importance Extension	-2
Resource Units	45
GWP (BCr)	1
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-D
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Saurus is an agricultural world with an ideal environment for producing food from plants, animals, or other lifeforms. The system has a population in the hundreds of thousands of sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Vilis Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Saurus, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and a baronet, and the fiefdom of a baron. All three are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. This is the homeworld of the Saurian, a Minor Race.

Saurus (SM 1320) (world)/Vilis (Spinward Marches 1320) New Era D888688-7 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 6 Moderate (1 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	5457
Army Size (BEs)	20
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	752+1 Resources 7 Few Labor 5 Moderate (100 thousand) Infrastructure 2 Extremely limited Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	70
GWP (BCr)	2
World Trade Number	3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	975
Starport Details
Classification	Class-D
Port Size	3
Building Capacity (Tons)	1,100
Port employees	305
Port passengers (annual)	94,300

Era: New Era

Saurus system has a population between 10 and 100 million sophonts. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Vilis Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. This is the homeworld of the Saurian, a Minor Race.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

The human population of this world shares their world with a great variety of life.

Saurus has two stars in the star system.

Saurus
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G8 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.94	5380 - 5480	0.80528
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0085	0.0744	0.87 - 1.54	0.85	8.5
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	7
	Remarks
Saurus
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

1320 Saurus (Imperial)

Starport: Class II.

Diameter: 8,553 miles (13,700 km).
Atmosphere: Dense oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 82%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 830,000.
Government: Civil service bureaucracy.
Control Level: 5.
Tech Level: 7.
World Trade Number: 3.

Native Sophont: Saurian

One species, the Saurians, have achieved sentience.

History & Background (Dossier)

The human population lives in small farming communities.

• During the Fifth Frontier War, Saurus was subject to incursions from the Gram Fleet as part of the Sword Worlds Campaign. On 014-1108 the Imperial Admiralty officially declared the system to be a combat zone.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Saurus (SM 1320), as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the estate and fiefdom of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial baron.

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), . in Article: "The Fifth Frontier War"
• Periodical: Journal of the Travellers Aid Society No. 19 in Article: "TNS (Revisited)"
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 41.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 65.Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 65.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science