Pourne (world)

Pourne/Tlaiowaha (Trojan Reach 2324)
Classic Era (1116)	A9B2887-A Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 9 Large (14,400 km, 1.03g - 1.33g) Atmosphere B Exotic (corrosive) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 8 Moderate (900 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F3 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Pourne is a moderate population fluidic hellworld with over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts, who are struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• A fluid world has an oceanic geography consisting of heavily contaminated water or a substance such as ammonia, methane, hydrocarbons, or other exotic liquid.
• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often form intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Tlaiowaha Subsector of Trojan Reach Sector.

Description (Planetology)

Pourne, also known as Pournelle, is a large, cold, unpleasant world with a corrosive atmosphere of methane and ammonia. Its hydrographics (20%) consist of Ammonia ice-caps at the poles.

Stellar Data

Pourne has a solitary primary star.

Pourne
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F3 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.44	6670 - 6750	3.58318
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0147	0.157	1.7 - 2.94	1.47	14.7
	Orbit #	*	0	5	4	7
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

Pourne (Alternate name: Pournelle) is a non-aligned fluidic hellworld located in the Tlaiowaha Subsector of the Trojan Reach.

• Pourne was formerly a member of the Kingdom of Drinax, until the Kingdom was shattered in a war with the Aslan Hierate.
• Pourne hopes to negotiate entry into either the Imperium or the Hierate as equal trading partners.

World Starport (St)

Pourne has a Class A Starport, an excellent quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

Pourne maintains a large downport with trade and ship repair facilities, but its main star port is at Pournelle Station-1, one of the colonies at the L5 orbit point. The planet has a large (3000 km diameter) moon, Baen, orbiting at 400,000 km distance. There are a total of 30 stations at the L4 and L5 points, all of a similar design, housing the rich members of Pourne's society.

Population

Pourne has a population of 931 million, of whom 5 million live in orbiting space colonies.

Government

The government is a civil service bureaucracy, in which officials are chosen for their expertise. Thus all officials are (supposedly) the best available, and the ruling council of three is highly efficient.

Economy

Pourne's main industries are mining and the construction and export of all manner of electronic items, from computer chips to starships. It is renowned for its well-built space colonies.

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.

• Mike Jackson. "Tlaiowaha Subsector." Third Imperium 02 (1986): 8-9.
• Mike Jackson. "Code of Honor." Third Imperium 02 (1986): 10-11.
• Gareth Hanrahan. Aslan (Mongoose Publishing, 2009), .