Skarno (world)

250 px

Skarno/Mizar (Zarushagar 0527)
Classic Era (1116)	B675466-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 4 Moderate (10 thousand) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G2 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	3

style="width: 220px; height: 250px;"

Jump map from Travellermap.com

Skarno 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 member of the Third Imperium in the Mizar Subsector of Zarushagar Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.
• This world toils under the control of a military government with conditions reflecting that situation, including curtailed civil rights and limited freedoms.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• It lies within the Ilelish Trail Cluster.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Skarno has a solitary primary star.

• It is a yellow main sequence.

Skarno has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1	5720 - 5770	1
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0094	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.94	9.4
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

Skarno is a pre-agricultural and nonindustrial world lacking adequate development for its economy to become prosperous. It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.

• This world toils under the control of a military government with conditions reflecting that situation including curtailed civil rights and limited freedoms.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Mizar Subsector of Zarushagar Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.
• This world has a nearby Naval Base associated with it.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Skarno, 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 estate 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 estate of an Imperial baronet.

Trade Data

• Importance: 1 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: B (abundant)
• Labor: 3 (thousands)
• Infrastructure: 4 (very limited)
• Efficiency: +1 (average)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 3 (monolithic)
• Acceptance: 5 (very aloof)
• Strangeness: 4 (somewhat distinct)
• Symbols: 9 (somewhat abstract)

World Timeline

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

• circa -250,000: the Ancients are active within the sector.
• -9235: the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
• -5400 to -4015: the Vilani Consolidation Wars.
• -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka claims and settles worlds across the region.
• -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars.
• -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
• -1776 to 0: the Long Night.
• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 800-820: the Psionics Suppressions.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This article is missing content for one or more detailed sections. Additional details are required to complete the article. You can help the Traveller Wiki by expanding it.

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.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), page 21. (charts locating the world)
• Joe Fugate, Gary L. Thomas. Referee's Gaming Kit (Digest Group Publications, 1989), various pages. (background for the sector)
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), pages 11, 48, 49. (dot maps and charts locating the world)
• Gary L. Thomas. The Travellers' Digest 21 (Digest Group Publications, 1990), page 17. (background for the sector)
• Loren Wiseman. Challenge 75 (Game Designers Workshop, 1994), pages 6, 68. (background for the sector)
• Martin Dougherty. Bearers of the Flame (Avenger Enterprises, 2006), page 87. (the sector around the year 1248, including the world)
• Author & Contributor: Greg Videll of the HIWG (refinement of sector data)
• Author & Contributor: Martin J. Dougherty (development of sector data)