Kedakek (world)

Kedakek/Zachrisson (Fulani 3225)
Classic Era (1116)	X252599-3 Starport X No Starport Size 2 Small (3,200 km, 0.10g - 0.17g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 5 Moderate (200 thousand) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level 3 Pre-Industrial (basic science)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K1 V M5 V D
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	0

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Kedakek is a poor, nonindustrial world.

• 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.
• This world has few prospects for economic development.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Zachrisson Subsector of Fulani Sector.

• It is a binary world.
• It is a mainworld which is a satellite of either a gas giant or another world.
• 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.
• This is a "low technology" world with technology competencies well below standard for Charted Space.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Kedakek is a trinary star system.

• The primary is an orange main sequence.
• The secondary is a red main sequence.
• The tertiary is a tiny white dwarf stellar remnant.

Kedakek has three stars in the star system.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.86	5100 - 5170	0.58985
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0074	0.0637	0.76 - 1.36	0.74	7.4
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks
Secondary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M5 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.162	2930 - 3060	0.00171
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0018	0.0034	0.04 - 0.09	0.18	1.8
	Orbit #	*	*	*	0	4
	Remarks		Flare Star.
Tertiary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	D	White Dwarf		0.53	6800 - 6800	0
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00011	0.00168	0 - 0.03	0.011	0.11
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	0
	Remarks

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x6 secondary rocky worlds.

Mainworld Data

Kedakek is the minor component in a binary planet pair.

• The two worlds orbit a barycenter once every few days.

The mainworld and its large primary world orbit within the star's Habitable Zone.

• They lie within the zone's prime H region.
• They receive moderate levels of stellar energy.

Mainworld Size (S)

Kedakek is a Small World between 2,400km and 4,000km in diameter. The world has low gravity between 0.1G and 0.17G. The horizon will appear about 2.5km away.

• Tidal stresses generated by the world's binary companion cause frequent seismic and geological activity.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Kedakek has a pressure of 0.43 to 0.70 atmospheres. The Thin Atmosphere does not require survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Kedakek has 15-25% of its surface covered by liquid water or ice. There may be a few small seas. Wilderness refueling is possible. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are Hell Worlds or Poor Worlds depending on their atmosphere.

• Much of the surface is an arid, hostile environment.

Satellites:

Kedakek is the moon of a large world.

• Its larger primary is Castallo, an arid corrosive atmosphere world.
• Castallo: UWP Y6B0000-0

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

• Locally, detailed maps may be available.
• Verified updated charts are constantly sought.
• Detailed survey data commands premium prices.

(Placeholder chart, predominantly dry world.)

Native Lifeforms

Primitive native life occupying a number of ecological niches. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

History & Background (Dossier)

Kedakek is a quiet backwater with a stable economy and acceptable standards of living. Some of the planets and moons within the system have never had an intelligent being visit them.

• The resources of the system are being exploited.

There is little activity within the system.

• Commercial traffic is extremely rare: the system sees very few visiting ships.
• Commo only picks up natural background noise and static.
• No commercial navigation beacons are active.
• Vessels are unlikely be operating among the other worlds and moons that make up the system.

The system has been settled for centuries.

• Verified updated data is constantly sought.

World Starport (St)

Kedakek does not have a starport. The Class X Starport is an indication that no starport exists in the system. There are no facilities or services available, and no site marked for landing.

World Demographics (P)

Kedakek has a population of 200,000.

• It is home to around 8000 Bolth.

Urbanization

A single large urban center is surrounded by smaller satellite communities.

• The population are concentrated into a single relatively densely populated region.
• Much of the surface of the world remains as wilderness.

World Technology Level (T)

Kedakek possesses a Technology Level of TL–3.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Printing press, the mechanical telegraph, and the first audio recordings.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Coal or other simple hydrocarbon fuels and early steam engines.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Bicycles and early steam coaches with advanced roadways.
  • Water: Advanced sailing and early steam engine ships.
  • Air: The earliest hot air balloons.

World Government (G)

Kedakek is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

World Military

Approximately 1000 personnel, supported by citizen militias.

World Law (L)

Kedakek has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (outside private residences or visiting starships).

World Economy

• Resources: 9 (moderate)
• Labor: 4 (tens of thousands)
• Infrastructure: 1 (extremely limited)
• Efficiency: -1 (average)

Trade Data

• Importance: -3 (very unimportant)

World Culture

• Homogeneity: 5 (harmonious)
• Acceptance: 2 (very xenophobic)
• Strangeness: 9 (extremely confusing)
• Symbols: 5 (concrete)

World Timeline

• 300-420: the First Survey charts the system.
• 995-1065: the Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published.

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.

• Paranoia Press, Vanguard Reaches, 1981 pg 11 (Bolth)
• Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 50, 51. (sector named, dot map provided locating world)
• Author & Contributor: Jo Grant of CORE (generated data) / Geir Lanesskog (refinement of data)
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS