Quhaiathat (world)

Quhaiathat/Five Sisters (Spinward Marches 0637) Milieu 1116 C31479B-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 7 Moderate (20 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law B Extreme Law (control of movement) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K8 V
Worlds	6
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Impersonal bureaucracy
Law Level	Extreme
Cultural Extension	977B
Army Size (BEs)	15
Economic Details
Technology Level	9
Economic Extension	A69+2 Resources A Abundant Labor 6 Moderate (2 million) Infrastructure 9 Extensive Efficiency +2 Good
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	1,080
GWP (BCr)	58
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	1,990
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	23,000
Port employees	305
Port passengers (annual)	63,600

Quhaiathat has a trace atmosphere and the little amount of surface water is in a frozen state. The system has a population between 10 million and 1 billion sophonts. This world is designated an Amber Zone. Caution is advised since the world has an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that are not well understood and might be a danger to a visitor. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Five Sisters Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Quhaiathat, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdom of a marquis. Both are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• Quhaiathat is a member of the Spinward Main.
• It is a member of the Collace Arm.

• Quhaiathat is a member of the Spinward Main.
• It is a member of the Collace Arm.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stars

Quhaiathat has a solitary primary star.

• It is an orange main sequence.

Quhaiathat has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K8 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.62	3930 - 3990	0.18766
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0057	0.0359	0.45 - 0.84	0.57	5.7
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
	Remarks		None

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld.
• x4 secondary rocky worlds.
• x1 planetoid belt.

Mainworld Data

Located far from its primary, the world is bitterly cold. Surface temperatures approach -200°K, and most settlements are located within former mine shafts. Most of the world's power supply, and therefore life support margins, are given over to the mines and their vital treasures. As a result, the use of air and water by the rest of the community had to be strictly monitored to prevent waste.

Mainworld Size (S)

Quhaiathat is a Small World between 4,000km and 5,600km in diameter. The world has low gravity between 0.24G and 0.34G. The horizon will appear about 3km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Quhaiathat has a pressure of less than 0.1 atmospheres which requires the use of a Vacc Suit. TL–8 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

• It experiences frigid temperatures.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Quhaiathat has 35-45% of its surface covered by liquid water. There will be a number of small seas or one larger body of water. Wilderness refueling is possible.

600 px

Mainworld Geography and Topography

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

(Blank map, vacuum world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Quhaiathat, 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 fiefdom of a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversees 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 fiefdom of an Imperial marquis.

Other Data

Quhaiathat is a small ice world settled by Imperial colonists around 748. Rigid government controls regulate every aspect of native life, which centers around the mining of high quality metal ores, the major export from the system. A small amount of manufacturing is undertaken on Quhaiathat, but most manufactured goods and foodstuffs are imported.

The characters will have to be careful visiting Quhaiathat starport as the slightest transgression will land the characters in front of the Quhaiathat Government Transgression Tribunal. Depending on the crime the characters could land themselves in a Quhaiathat prison for 1-9 months.

History-Era: Milieu: New Era

Quhaiathat was a snowball world colonized to exploit its rich mineral deposits. Despite its poverty of air and water, it possessed massive subterranean deposits of Platinum group metals, a great deal of Gold, and huge Iron deposits.

Colonization began in the period after the Second Frontier War, one of the few of the Sisters' worlds that actually benefited from the slowdown of Imperial investment and expansion.

The original technocratic government became an impersonal bureaucracy known as the Core, and its edicts are enforced by the Containment Service, the world's "air police." Rationing of air and water is strictly enforced. And inhabitants put up with constant surveillance by the Containment Service, monitored for excessive usage of air and water. Everyone is taxed according to the amount of water and air that they use. That tax is payed for with either money, or by additional compulsory labor in the mines. Wasters of water and air, and tax cheats, are usually confined to the mines, in squalid conditions, until they pay off their "debt." And this penalty is applied to everyone, regardless of stature or standing, including Core bureaucrats. Needless to say, few people even attempt to cheat the taxman.

In the past, visitors were confined to the worlds starport, or were only allowed visas with short time expiration. Immigration was limited to a few thousand people per year. Despite these harsh laws, the output of the worlds mines were rich enough to give the common people a high standard of living, undermining dissent. The Representational Reforms eliminated the world governments efforts at limiting offworld contact and immigration, but was able to compensate through careful recruitment of offworld professionals, and a program of technological upgrade.

Quhaiathat also has the opprobrium for the highest industrial accident rate for any world of its tech level and nature. Since wealth is measured by the amount of water and air that the locals can afford, many are driven to overwork in an effort to escape the draconian regulatory oversight.

Oddly for a world of its legal imprimatur, few regulations exist in restraining or deterring such suicidal behavior. Perhaps the payoff of obsessive voluntary productivity is too great to suppress. No matter what the reason, the population has a swaggering nature reminiscent of any dangerous occupation, only to an extreme degree. Luck is as important as work ethic, and the society seems to thrive on thrill seeking to some degree. A play hard and why worry attitude is cultivated among the young. Miners who've survived past ten years of such behavior are looked upon with a perverse mixture of respect and dread. Sports are extremely popular, as is just plain stupid daredevil behavior. RQS and Naval personnel dread visiting the world, as the locals are sometimes given to playing chicken or hide and seek with local patrols.

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 (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 10-11.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 48. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 54.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 109. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 98-102. (UWP only)
• Peter Gray - BARD OPAL 19504 -