Ka Min (world)

Ka Min/Natar (Far Home 0811)
Classic Era (1116)	C767676-5 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 6 Moderate (3 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G0 V M5 VI
Planetoid Belts	4
Gas Giants	2

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Ka Min is an agricultural, nonindustrial, and very rich garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts.

• 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. However, a rich world like this one can afford the cost of importation.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Its economy and population are growing and living conditions are expected to incrementally rise barring outside forces. The world will grow even quicker when its industrial sector begins to develop.
• This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
• It is a member of the Firstworlds in the Natar Subsector of Far Home Sector.

Description / Astrography & Planetology

No information yet available.

Ka Min has two stars in the star system.

Ka Min
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.06	5860 - 5930	1.22623
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0102	0.0918	1.04 - 1.83	1.02	10.2
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
	Remarks
Ka Min
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M5 VI	Main Sequence (Subdwarf)		0.104	2000 - 2900	0.002
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00097	0.00371	0.04 - 0.06	0.097	0.97
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	3
	Remarks

System Data

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Mainworld Data

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Mainworld Geography & Topography

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Native Lifeforms

The Batha Beast, a large grazer native to the world, is found throughout the Distant Fringe. It is a strong and dangerous livestock animal with a reputation for intransigence, but its meat is quite tasty.

History & Background / Dossier

Ka Min (0811 Far Home) is one of the New Members, systems that have provisionally become members of the Firstworlds. The world is divided into enormous family-run ranches raising Batha Beasts, temperamental grazers valued for their meat. Each ranch is effectively a state headed by the family patriarch. Feuds, particularly over border grazing rights, are common.

World Starport

Ka Min has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Technology Level

Ka Min possesses a Technology Level of TL–5.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Electricity, hydrocarbon internal combustion, and the most fundamental atomic energy.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Ground cars or automobiles and tracked vehicles.
  • Water: Large ships and submersibles with steel hulls.
  • Air: Early aircraft including seaplanes and very early unmanned rockets.

World Government

Ka Min has a Balkanized Government. There is no central world government. The world has several governments competing for control of the world. These may be allies, cooperating, competitors, or at war with each other. The world is divided into enormous family-run ranches raising Batha Beasts, temperamental grazers valued for their meat. Each ranch is effectively a state headed by the family patriarch. Feuds, particularly over border grazing rights, are common.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

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Trade Data

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World Demographics

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World Culture

The preferred mode of transport for Batha Herders are Horvath's Ponies. Herds of Batha Beasts are corralled by riders who use ultrasonic horns to direct the animals. Batha Herders may spend months in the saddle moving herds between their grazing lands and transport hubs. Herders generally employed by a large commercial ranch and have a reputation for working hard and playing harder.

Urbanization

Ka Min is dominated by 40 vast open ranches, each covering millions of square kilometers and raising huge herds of Batha Beasts. Each is owned by a hereditary Five family who run it according to their own peculiar customs and traditions. Each ranch contains a number of Ranchtowns, typically with many tens of thousands of inhabitants, and with smaller outlying Burgs with hundreds or even thousands of inhabitants. Each Ranchtown is served by a rail depot. The rail network is used to transport both living Bantha Beasts or processed Beast products to the hungry markets of Drovehead.

Drovehead, with a population of 2.2 million sophonts, is the only major city on Ka Min, lying close to the downport and serving as home to all of the worlds' major financial and commercial institutions. A rail network fans out from Drovehead to terminals near to Ranchtowns. Many ranches choose to drive their herds directly to Drovehead instead.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

2256AD. First settlement founded on Ka Min.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors / Sources

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science