Twylo (world)

Twylo/Capella (Solomani Rim 1034)
Classic Era (1116)	A551AA6-E Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population A High (80 billion) Government A Charismatic Dictator Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level E High Stellar (anti-grav cities)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	A6 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	3

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Twylo is a poor, high-population world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

• This world is always on the edge of revolution as the common citizen struggles under extremely low wages. Much dissent is present.
• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• It is a member of the Solomani Confederation in the Capella Subsector of Solomani Rim Sector.

• This world has a Naval Base, usually associated with military starships.
• This world has a Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces.
• Twylo owns the nearby world of Chrysolite (Solomani Rim 1032).
• It contains the the SolSec sector headquarters.

Description (Planetology)

Stellar Data

Twylo has a solitary primary star.

Twylo
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	A6 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.83	7760 - 7910	8.29046
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0165	0.2388	2.49 - 4.28	1.65	16.5
	Orbit #	*	0	5	4	8
	Remarks

Native Lifeforms

Twylo's wide desert areas feature a unique native species, the sand dollars, which are an ergivorous life-form. They use the harsh light of Twylo's primary to fuel an electrochemical reaction, freeing oxygen from various oxides in the soil. In effect, the sand dollars "eat rust", using the liberated heavy elements in their metabolism and releasing free oxygen into the air. The natural process of oxidation is therefore offset by the metabolism of hundreds of billions of sand dollars. It is due to this process that the world has an oxygen-rich atmosphere.

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

1034 Twylo (Solomani Subsector Capital)

Starport: Class V - Naval Base.

Diameter: 4,700 miles (7,500 km). Gravity: 0.48g.
Atmosphere: Thin oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 9%.
Climate: Very Cold.
Population: 30 billion.
Government: Dictatorship.
Control Level: 4.
Tech Level: 11.
World Trade Number: 6.

History & Background (Dossier)

Twylo is a poor but important, high-population world. It is the subsector capital and the highest population world in the subsector. The bulk of the population lives in vast urban hives, clustered around the infrequent lakes and seas. Twylo is one of the Confederation's busiest producers of heavy industrial equipment, vehicles, and starships.

Twylo society suffers from severe economic inequality, which has led to considerable social unrest. The recent "Twylo Renaissance" has resulted in a series of reforms intended to improve the destabilizing conditions.

World Economy

The shells of certain sanddollar species are quite beautiful and have a fair value as novelty keepsakes; they are a reasonably important export.

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.

• GURPS Traveller: Rim of Fire
• Mongoose Traveller: Solomani Rim