Kwan (world)

Kwan/Theta Aurigae (Aldebaran 1431)
Classic Era (1116)	A786231–8 Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 2 Low (600) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K5 V M4 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	1

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Kwan is a low-population garden world with a population of less than 10,000 sophonts.

• It is a garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most forms of sophontic life.
• Both the population and economy of this world are expected to grow in the near future barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Solomani Confederation in the Theta Aurigae Subsector of Aldebaran Sector.

• 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.

Kwan Primary System
Theta Aurigae/Aldebaran 1431
Position	Distance	Name	UWP
Primary		Primary	K5 V
1	0.38 AU	Planet 1	Y410000-0
2	0.75 AU	Kwan	A786231-8
1	30 Diam	Moon	G200111-8
3	1.45 AU	Planet 2	YBB0000-0
1	10 Diam	Moon	Y301000-0
4	2.87 AU	Icy Belt	Y000000-0
5	6.15 AU	Gas Giant	LGG
1	1 Diam	Ring	YR00000-0
2	8 Diam	Moon	Y3A1000-0
3	11 Diam	Moon	Y200000-0
4	25 Diam	Moon	Y102000-0

Kwan Secondary System
Theta Aurigae/Aldebaran 1431
Position	Distance	Name	UWP
Primary		Primary	M4 V
1	0.11 AU	Planet 3	Y311000-0
2	0.26 AU	Planet 4	YBC4000-0
3	0.74 AU	Planet 5	Y9B1000-0
1	15 Diam	Moon	Y202000-0

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Kwan is a binary star system.

• The primary is an orange main sequence.
• The secondary is a red main sequence.

Kwan has two stars in the star system.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K5 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.7	4300 - 4440	0.28697
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0065	0.0444	0.56 - 1.01	0.65	6.5
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
	Remarks
Secondary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M4 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.23	3110 - 3210	0.00584
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0025	0.0063	0.08 - 0.16	0.25	2.5
	Orbit #	*	*	0	0	5
	Remarks		Approximately 210 AU from the primary.

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x5 secondary rocky worlds.
  • Two orbit the primary star, three orbit the secondary star.
• x1 planetoid belt, orbiting the primary star.
• x1 gas giant, orbiting the primary star.

Mainworld Data

Kwan is a pristine garden world orbiting in the center of the primary star's habitable zone.

Mainworld Size (S)

Kwan is a Meso World between 10,400km and 12,000km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.7G and 0.9G. The horizon will appear about 4.7km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Kwan has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

• It experiences generally moderate temperatures.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Kwan has 55-65% of its surface covered by liquid water. It has significant large liquid bodies. Wilderness refueling is possible.

Satellites

Kwan retains a single small moon.

• It orbits once every few weeks.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

(Blank map, predominantly watery world.)

Native Lifeforms

Abundant native life occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

Kwan has a wide variety of both local flora and fauna. The seas have a variety of life, including edible species for most sophonts.

History & Background (Dossier)

Kwan was claimed and named by Captain Jon Smið (sic) of the colony vessel Waiferar (massing over 4000 dTons and rated at Jump-4).

As was his wont, Captain Smið insisted on naming the planet but held off on the decision, saying he would do it when he arrived with colonists. Unfortunately, the Captain was highly inebriated when he filed his survey data at his base: he only recorded accurate data for the barren, inhospitable worlds orbiting the system's red secondary star, instead providing faulty data that listed all of the primary star's planets as arid vacuum worlds. This was then logged as the official UWP data for the system. Thinking no more of it, Smið spent years creating a colony mission but only recruited around 1000 individuals. This was largely due to the official data conflicting with reports from other captains regarding the nature of the mainworld.

The final leg of the journey was from Victori, and Captain Smið decided to follow the example of his friend, Capitain Antoine de Bougainville of the Colony ship Voyageur (from the world of Ivraie), and held a celebratory party – becoming quite drunk – before entering the final astrogation jump values. The jump was a miracle; the Waiferar arrived exactly at the target planet – to be clear, the ship dropped out of jump space at the edge of the atmospheric blanket, at speed.

Between the (now quite sober) captain's quick reflexes and the automated systems, the ship managed to pull up from a dive in a 10 G turn. The ship then skipped across the waves and ramped off a beach into the coastal forest beyond, coming to rest between 2 hills with its nose on a third. The turn and ocean impact event itself probably killed over a hundred, and many were injured by the final impact on land, including the Captain.

Norbert Kwan, the ship's first mate, found the Captain at the forward area of the bridge, where he had been thrown. The Captain was grievously injured, but the mate, himself stunned, asked "What do you name the planet, Captain?"

The Captain looked up, said, "Kwan?"... and died. And so the Captain named his last system.

The Scout Service discovered the survivors a few years later, on a routine follow up on the registered colonization mission. The population declared that they would be happy to join the Solomani Confederation if they were provided with a modern Class A starport for their pristine garden world. And so, a deal was struck.

Solomani Security keeps a close eye on things to ensure the security of the Confederation and the well-being of its loyal citizens. Almost anyone could be a SolSec informant, passing on all sorts of useful information: some gain a reward or benefit for their actions, others are coerced, but many see it as an act of duty to help protect the Solomani state and its interests.

World Starport (St)

Kwan 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.

The Downport is dubbed Norbertport, after the surviving first mate of the colony ship.

The port also contains a large, popular bar which profanely dubbed F... the Captain. It is occasionally referred to as Captain F... (only they don't say F.)

World Population (P)

Kwan has population of 600 sophonts (hundreds).

• This is a Low Population World and the population would be too low to sustain itself without moderate outside assistance. This may represent a large transient population such as the crew of a fleet of starships, the dwindling remnants of a dying colony, a construction team building a new colony, or an outpost that could evolve into a colony.
• The population almost entirely consists of Solomani humans.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Quesadan Spanish, a Terran language principally spoken in the Grand United States of Quesada.
• Rim Anglic, a dialect of Anglic and the principal language of the Confederation.

World Technology Level (T)

Kwan possesses a Technology Level of TL–8.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics, improved telephones, and satellite communication and data networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Improved geothermal and improved batteries.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Advanced automobiles.
  • Water: Triphibians and early artificial gills.
  • Air: Improved helicopters and hypersonic jets.
  • Space: Space shuttles, early space stations, and improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

World Government (G)

Kwan is governed by Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy. A single family or small group provides the leadership and important positions within the government. These positions are inherited by members of the group or by their relatives. The organization may be a monarchy, with titles passed to family members, or a plutocracy where inheritance of the family fortune includes government position. Alternatively, the organization may be a more typical government apparatus, only with positions of power inherited.

World Law (L)

Kwan 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: -1 (unimportant)

World Economy

• Resources: 8 (moderate)
• Labor: 1 (descriptor)
• Infrastructure: 0 (descriptor)
• Efficiency: +3 (descriptor)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 5 (harmonious)
• Acceptance: 1 (extremely xenophobic)
• Strangeness: 4 (somewhat distinct)
• Symbols: A (abstract)

World Timeline

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

• -9235: far to coreward, the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
• -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka controls vast territories.
• -2431: Terrans discover jump drive technology.
• -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars.
• -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the former Ziru Sirka.
• -1776 to 0: the Long Night.
• The Year 0: to coreward, the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 604-622: the Imperial Civil War.
• 624: the Imperial Express Boat Network is established.
• 704: the Solomani Autonomous Region is formed.
• 800-820: the Psionics Suppressions.
• 871: the Solomani Confederation is founded.
• 940: the Solomani Autonomous Region is dissolved.
• 990-1002: the Solomani Rim War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey includes data for the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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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.

• John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M), (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), various pages. (Library data entries)
• John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 11 Library Data (N-Z), (Game Designers Workshop, 1982), various pages. (Library data entries)
• John Harshman, Marc Miller. Solomani (Game Designers Workshop, 1986), IFC, pages 3, 28. (sector named, background for the sector)
• Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), pages 8-11, various others. (dot map locating the worlds of the sector, background for the sector)
• Steven Eric Schwartz. MegaTraveller Periodical Imperiallines 2, 1991, page 5. (Bootean Federation, background for the sector)
• David L. Pulver. Solomani (Mongoose Publishing, 2012), pages 50, 118, 119, various others. (background for the sector)
• Martin J. Dougherty. The Order of Prometheus (Mongoose Publishing, 2023), various pages. (scenarios and background for the sector)
• Zho Berka's Maps (Classic Era UWP Data for the world)
• CORE Data Site (UWP Data for the world)
• Author & Contributor: Garnfellow (development of the sector)
• Author & Contributor: Leroy W.L. Guatney of the Federation Development Agency (FDA) (development of the sector)
• Author & Contributor: Dochsavage