Pagaton (world)

Pagaton/District 268 (Spinward Marches 1634) Milieu 1116 C769873-4 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 9 Wet World 90% Population 8 Moderate (900 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 4 Industrial (combustion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	F0 V
Worlds	11
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Balkanization
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	5821
Army Size (BEs)	2000
Economic Details
Technology Level	4
Economic Extension	A76-3 Resources A Abundant Labor 7 Moderate (90 million) Infrastructure 6 Limited Efficiency -3 Poor
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	294
GWP (BCr)	806
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	187
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	3
Building Capacity (Tons)	900,000
Port employees	50
Port passengers (annual)	15,300

Pagaton has a short-sleeve breathable atmosphere. The system has a population between 100 million and a billion sophonts. It is a Human dominated Non-Aligned world in the District 268 Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Pagaton (world)/Plankwell (Spinward Marches 1634) New Era C769973-6 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 9 Wet World 90% Population 9 High (9 billion) Government 7 Balkanization Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Balkanization
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	5927
Army Size (BEs)	30000
Economic Details
Technology Level	6
Economic Extension	A86+1 Resources A Abundant Labor 8 Moderate (900 million) Infrastructure 6 Limited Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	480
GWP (BCr)	6,981
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	7,255
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	7,800,000
Port employees	880
Port passengers (annual)	134,820

Era: New Era

Pagaton has a comfortably breathable atmosphere. The system has a population between 1 and 10 billion sophonts. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Plankwell Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

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• A common variant on the name is Pegaton.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

No information yet available.

Pagaton has a solitary primary star.

Pagaton
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.61	7020 - 7220	5.2953
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0161	0.1909	2.02 - 3.48	1.61	16.1
	Orbit #	*	0	5	4	8
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

Some suspect that there was a population on this world by the 400's, who were refugees from the Sindalian Empire. Others suspect that there were secret waves of Imperial immigrants hiding from the authorities.

Pagaton was originally settled fairly early in the Imperial Era, by a consortium of diverse groups from Mora, Trin, and planets in the Deneb Sector. At the time, it was a garden planet, and the various colony groups did not interact much since they were placed on separate large islands.

About 600, the planet began sliding into an Ice Age. Trade with other planets had always been marginal due to the disadvantageous position of the system, off the Spinward Main, and as more and more of the world's resources were channeled into survival-related activities, exports fell off, causing fewer traders to arrive, creating a vicious cycle which did not end until the planetary tech level dropped to 4.

Some trade has resumed since the reopening of the starport in the neighboring Binges system in 1057 drew traders through the little cluster, but the main export, furs, does not generate enough foreign exchange credits to engage in any sort of large scale rebuilding effort.

The large number of competing governments exacerbate the situation, since they tend to use what foreign exchange they have to equip their armed forces in an effort to seize or influence the distribution of vital resources (such things as ice free ports and easily recoverable iron and coal deposits). Since the best the planet could hope for is to become an agricultural world, the interest of offworld powers is extremely limited. Small groups of low tech mercenaries, from planets such as Aki or Tarkine, will occasionally hire themselves out on Pagaton for 'real life' training.

With a planetary population of about 900 million, the few islands which are fortunate enough to reside in the narrow habitable zone are fairly crowded, adding to the misery of the unfortunate inhabitants. Only the presence of edible native vegetation which will grow in the harsh equatorial environment, and the extensive use of sea life for sustenance, allows the continuation of human life on the planet.

World Starport

Pagaton has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Technology Level

Pagaton possesses a Technology Level of TL–4.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone and telegraphs, widespread printing.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early electricity, hydrocarbon internal combustion.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Trains and early automobiles.
  • Water: Clippers and steam ships.
  • Air: Dirigibles, balloons, very basic rockets.

World Government

Pagaton is governed by a Religious Dictatorship. The leadership of the government is another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy). There is a powerful independent organization, the state religion, which has influence or direct control of the government. Like the bureaucratic governments this may simply be a strong influence with a secular government, be direct influence by virtue of controlling who may be in the leadership, or be a direct theocracy where the church leadership and bureaucracy is the government.

World Law Level

No information yet available.

World Military

No information yet available.

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), 49.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 78.Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 78.
• External Link: The Zhodani Base by Author & Contributor: Rob Dean
• Author & Contributor: Vendarth
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science