875-496 (world)

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875-496/Five Sisters (Spinward Marches 0834)
Classic Era (1116)	E888421-7 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 4 Moderate (50 thousand) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M3 V M7 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	0

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875-946 is a pre-agricultural and nonindustrial world lacking adequate development for its economy to become prosperous.

• As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
• It is a client state of the Third Imperium in the Five Sisters Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.
• This dangerous world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it dangerous to visitors.
• This world has an Imperial Scout base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stars

875-496 is a binary star system.

• Both are red main sequence stars.

875-496 has two stars in the star system.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M3 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.37	3270 - 3430	0.03081
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0034	0.0146	0.18 - 0.35	0.34	3.4
	Orbit #	*	*	0	1	5
	Remarks		None
Companion
	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		None

875-496 is one of the very few worlds which are isolated from the rest of the Spinward Marches mains, being accessible only by a J-3 jump route.

History & Background (Dossier)

World Starport (St)

875-946 has a Class E Starport, a frontier quality installation with few 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 a downport.

• The world is host to a Scout Base.

World Population (P)

875-946 has a population of 50,000 sophonts (tens of thousands).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are most commonly heard:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Technology Level (T)

875-946 possesses a Technology Level of TL–7.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early video and early satellite communication networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fuel cells, solar energy, and geothermal power sources.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, hovercraft, and bullet trains.
  • Water: Hydrofoils and early triphibians.
  • Air: Hang gliders and supersonic jets.
  • Space: Deep space probes and interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

World Government (G)

875-946 is governed by a Participatory Democracy where eligible voters determine laws and policy. What determines an eligible voter varies. There may be smaller councils or regional bodies to draft the policies voted upon. Leadership of the government and all members of the bureaucracy are determined by the voting population.

World Law (L)

875-946 has a low law level. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate. Body pistols, explosives, and poison gas are typically regulated or prohibited.

Trade Data

• Importance: -3 (very unimportant)

World Economy

• Resources: 6 (few)
• Labor: 3 (thousands)
• Infrastructure: 1 (extremely limited)
• Efficiency: -5 (extremely poor)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 1 (monolithic)
• Acceptance: 1 (extremely xenophobic)
• Strangeness: 1 (very typical)
• Symbols: 3 (very concrete)

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 589-604: First Frontier War.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 615-620: Second Frontier War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 979-986: Third Frontier War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
• 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
• 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.

Later Historical Eras

History-Era: Milieu: New Era

Formerly known as 875-496. Prince Edward was an accidental colony. The world is named after an escort cruiser attached to the Izmir Corporation fleet that journeyed into the Marches around -1710. While the fleet was surveying the surrounding region, looking for a suitable world for settlement, the Prince Edward was sent on a deep recon mission into Menorial/Trojan Reaches Sector, and crash landed on the world after a misjump. Listed as missing and having crashed on a remote world, rescue would have been difficult. And because of the fleet's subsequent contact and settlement of Daryen, no rescue mission ever found them.

The survivor's descendants were eventually recontacted about a century later, and the Confederacy established a development mission on the world to uplift it back into the Daryen mainstream. But the Maghiz cut short that project, and the Confederacy had to concentrate upon rebuilding its homeworlds. As Prince Edward was primarily Turkish with few Daryen influences, the loss of contact was less harmful to them than it was for other Daryen colonies.

When the expanding Third Imperium began expanding into District 267, the IISS interdicted the world, placing it firmly under uncontested Imperial control. Because of its non-Imperial culture, the world lay in limbo for most of the Imperial era, as authorities were unsure about its disposition towards being assimilated into the Imperium. The interdiction was lifted in 885, and a scout base was established to keep in contact with the locals, and eventually bring them into the Imperium as a full member world. The Prince Edwardians are a well organized and cohesive bunch. Their adopted homeworld's mild weather and plentiful food supply prevented inter-communal fighting and strife from developing, and created a tolerant if somewhat wary society. The colony never exceeded more than 40,000 people, and the need for fresh genetic material made them hospitable towards those ship crews and travellers that made their way off of the beaten path to their world. However the colony remained true to its original culture, in spite of the IISS contact personnel’s best efforts, and the world remained on the fringes of Imperial development policy.

After the Collapse, the new Regency reversed many dogmatic and cynical Imperial policies, especially its crony-based economic and development practices. The ecological umbrella group known as NEO received permission to settle Five Sisters underdeveloped worlds with indigenous human populations, including Prince Edward, under the condition that they uplifted the local populations with as little pain or exploitation as possible.

Despite some early tensions, the Edwardians grudgingly accepted this new colonization, and eventually warmed up to their new neighbors. Culturally the world is an eclectic mix, with even a few Darrians, who immigrated in the 1170s, thrown in for good measure. While technological development has been slow, it has a wide range of amenities, and its mild plenty has discouraged widespread dissemination of unnecessary high-tech anyway. The world is now a full member of the Regency, and its Senate delegation is noteworthy for championing liberal policies and challenging older reactionary groups.

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.

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• 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), 55.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 109. (UWP only)
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• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 98-102. (UWP only)
• Peter Gray - BARD OPAL 9537
• Peter Gray - BARD OPAL 19515