So Skire (world)

So Skire/So Skire (Old Expanses 1732)
Classic Era (1116)	E657843-1 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 8 Moderate (100 million) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 1 Pre-Industrial (bronze, iron)
Hard Times (1130)	E667843-1 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 8 Moderate (00 million) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 1 Pre-Industrial (bronze, iron)
New Era (1200)	E667843-1 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 8 Moderate (00 million) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 1 Pre-Industrial (bronze, iron)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M1 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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So Skire is a pre-agricultural, moderate population garden world with over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts in population size.

• Garden worlds are known for their near-ideal utopian environments conducive to most sophonts, plants, animals, and other forms of life.
• It is a pre-agricultural world with an environment suitable for large scale agricultural and livestock industries that have not yet been widely developed.
• Its economy and population are growing and living conditions are expected to gradually rise barring outside forces.
• This is a "low technology" world with technology competencies well below technology standards for Charted Space.
• 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 Third Imperium in the So Skire Subsector of Old Expanses Sector in the Domain of Sol.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

No information yet available.

So Skire has a solitary primary star.

Mymr
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence		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

World Data

So Skire occupies orbit 0 around its primary Mymr. So Skire orbits toward the outer edge of the habitable zone. This, and its primary's relatively low luminosity, results in cool temperatures on the planet's surface. Orbits 1 and 2 are empty, orbits 3 through 6 contain the system's four gas giants.

• So Skire has a small rocky moonlet orbiting at 85 thousand kilometers and a ring system at 19 thousand kilometers.
• So Skire is classified as a habitable world but it's no paradise. It has a base surface temperature of 4°C and temperatures ranging from +29°C to -76°C. So Skire's temperate zone extends from 24° north to 24° south of the equator. Latitudes north and south of this line experience severe seasonal freezing or permanent glaciation.
• It is an old world. Much of its original atmosphere has leaked away into space in spite of its 1.55G surface gravity. So Skire's atmosphere has a pressure of 0.9 atmospheres and a 20 percent oxygen concentraion making it breathable without assistance. The Axial tilt is 26 degrees giving the world pronounced seasons. So Skire's day is 24 hours long, and its year is rather short at 47 standard (and local) days.

Mainworld Topography and Geography

The northern half of the major continent is ice-locked, as are two of the three minor continents and most of the third. Most islands and archipelagos are in temperate waters, however, and the Human habitation is naturally concentrated here. The Drakensberg mountain range which follows the west coast of Woden, the major continent, lies along the Draken fault line. These mountains experience major seismic and volcanic activity, and continuing geological uplift as the Western Marine tectonic plate perpetually rides up and over the Woden plate. Seismic activity along fault lines throughout the planet is frequent, thanks to tidal stresses caused by So Skire's proximity to its primary. The Spires of So Skire, five volcanoes towering more than 5,000 metres above Cape Titan, are tourist attractions.

History & Background (Dossier)

So Skire was settled during the rapid expansion of the Rule of Man following the defeat of the Vilani in the Interstellar Wars. Early records are few, indicating it was settled as a mining colony by colonists of Terran descent. It was abandoned during the Long Night and the technology level of its surviving inhabitants crashed to TL-0. Their technology had climbed to TL-1 when they were rediscovered about 560 by the IISS. By the, other resource worlds closer to the Imperial core had been developed and So Skire was noted in IISS journals and bypassed. Harsh agricultural growing conditions and the lack of native technology combined to keep the planet's population at round 100 million.

The IISS and later the Solomani Confederation Navy had provided and maintained communications technology which helped So Skire's people remain united and govern themselves as a representative democracy. Otherwise, the IISS declined to "interfere" with the local society although it did allow trade and contact with off-worlders under supervision of personnel from the Scout base at Keghe (Old Expanses 1733).

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

So Skire, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of three members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
• It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.

Economy

The few visiting sportspersons and tourists that travel "off the beaten path" contribute a significant share of the planet's income, visiting the Spires and climbing nearby peaks. Another source of income is a rare algae that only grows on the surface of tiny mountain lakes among the Spires. The sulfur and other elements in the volcanic discharge make the algae and the microrganisms it hosts unique producers of wide-spectrum antibiotics.

History-Era: New Era

So Skire has been a stable backwater world unaffected by Virus and the Collapse because of its low pre-collapse tech level. With the Collapse, however, communications satellites and ground-based networks, maintained by the IISS, failed, the base at Keghe disappeared, and the world became balkanized. Normally, it would not draw much attention. However, a recent survey by a free-lance team found significant heavy metal mineral deposits on this dense, high gravity world and a relatively friendly native population near the survey site. Coupled with its position on the spinward edge of a dense cluster worlds leading toward Hiver space, this make So Skire worthy of intensive contact and bootstrap operations.

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