Somem (world)

Somem/Rhylanor (Spinward Marches 3020) Milieu 1116 C301340-B Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 3 Low (2 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 0 No Law Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M2 V M7 V
Worlds	14
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	1316
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	11
Economic Extension	621-4 Resources 6 Few Labor 2 Low (200) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -4 Very poor
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	7
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	7,000
Port passengers (annual)	0

Somem is an icy vacuum world with little or no atmosphere and a significant quantity of water frozen on the surface. The system supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Rhylanor Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Somem, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world.

Somem (world)/Rhylanor (Spinward Marches 3020) New Era C301342-B Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 3 Low (2 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 2 Low Law (no energy weapons) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	1316
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	11
Economic Extension	621+1 Resources 6 Few Labor 2 Low (200) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	12
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	105
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	34,410
Port passengers (annual)	100

Era: New Era

Somem is an icy vacuum world with little or no atmosphere and a significant quantity of water frozen on the surface. The system supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Rhylanor Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

The mainworld is an ice-capped, vacuum planet renowned as a market world where almost anything can be traded.

Somem has two stars in the star system.

Somem
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0041	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.41	4.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks
Somem
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M7 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.09	2630 - 2680	0.00022
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0011	0.0012	0.02 - 0.03	0.11	1.1
	Orbit #	*	*	*	0	3
	Remarks

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

3020 Somem (Imperial)

Starport: Class III.

Diameter: 2,909 miles (4,700 km).
Atmosphere: None.
Hydrographics: 7%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 7,000.
Government: Representative democracy.
Control Level: 0.
Tech Level: 10.
World Trade Number: 3.0.

History & Background (Dossier)

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Somem, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.

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), .
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 43.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 109.Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 109.
• Mongoose Traveller: Spinward Marches (UWP only)