Dzagok (world)

Dzagok/Raelas (Knoellighz 2436) Milieu 1116 A100658-F Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 1 Small (1,600 km, 0.05g - 0.09g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 6 Moderate (6 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level F High Stellar (anagathics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	F4 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Feudal technocracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	475D
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	15
Economic Extension	G57+0 Resources G Extremely abundant Labor 5 Moderate (600 thousand) Infrastructure 7 Generally available Efficiency +0 Average
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	1
GWP (BCr)	34
World Trade Number	5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	2,022
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	2,849
Port employees	190
Port passengers (annual)	3,700

Dzagok is a vacuum world, lacking any atmosphere or surface water. The system has a population in the millions of sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a Vargr dominated Non-Aligned world in the Raelas Subsector of Knoellighz Sector.

Description

Mainworld Data

A vacuum environment dotted with arbor domes above a subterranean tunnel complex that opens into deep crevice canyons crossed by sealed tube bridges, home to six million Vargr clones and guarded closely by Corsairs, Dzagok is Uosa's best back pocket secret.

This desert-rated planet is on the warm edge of the Habitable Zone in this system and is well lit. Solar panels across the surface provide a large low-signature energy source to the underground environs, arboretum, laboratories and the downport.

History and Background

This world's TL–15 is the source of Uosa's prosperity, via designs and blueprints of various developments made before and since the world's re-discovery by the "UOSA Syndicate Privateers" Corsair band. The Corsairs provide raw and refined materials, water, air, food, chemicals, radioactives, and anything the locals request from neighboring planets in-system and nearby worlds (e.g. Tasoloe).

World Demographics

Dzagok's population is entirely composed of gene-engineered Vargr. These are clones of the "Original 34" (17 male and 17 female) phenotypes, or "casts", from the survivors of a long-past calamity on the planet. A cast is the baseline phenotype, cloned for its attributes when necessary rather than created through natural reproduction. Reclaimed (dead) clones are evaluated for inclusion of new developments of the phenotype into the home cast. Casts are not cross-bred as a legacy wish of the Original 34.

The names of each clone are often derivatives of their Original plus an iteration number or a nickname. Pet names, given to the clones from the visiting Corsairs, are highly valued by the clones. A Corsair might 'pay' a clone by gifting them with a pet name to individualize them in return for good work, a favor paid, or if the Corsair makes a friendship with them. Differentiation is valuable to each clone and especially if given, noted or otherwise acknowledged by a non-clone. Each of the casts has a crystalized Charisma rating equal to its Original, modified individually by the presence of a given name or special service merit. Clones are loaned and transported solely by the Corsair band as analysts, advisors, specialists and project managers, then returned after the task is complete.

Each clone is iterated with a solid, thin, iridium and lanthanum choker-collar under a neck ruff, which features the Original Cast, iteration number, and a small amount of short-lived technetium so as to be detectable from orbit above a planet. Dzagok clones are extremely valuable to the USP and are guarded jealously and kept secret from outside the syndicate. Dzagok clones have a gene-engineered lifespan of about 100 years, modifiable by wear and tear or the illegal use of anagathics.

World Government

The planet is advised by a TL–15 set of six supercomputers that house recorded personality engram, pseudo-presences of the Original 34. These are maintained at the rated-A downport, in the deepest canyon on the planet. Each of the 34 casts represents various sciences, theoretical, hard and applied. The only science not touched upon is psionics (which the Corsairs try to keep from the clones by vying for bans in the Representatives of the Ascendancy Pact).

Designs, blueprints and other prototypes are funneled through Uosa's massive manufacturing complexes for production, packaging, marketing and distribution by the USP vessels or hired traders. This has enriched Uosa's economy to near degenerate levels of prosperity.

Historical Data

At the time mere Corsairs, the later-named Uosa Syndicate Privateers learned early on of the presence of a Vargr clone society of deep space, frontier explorer-scientists on Dzagok. On the edge of civilization at the time, the doomed world's population catastrophically failed and only 34 learned Vargr remained. With such a small group, the gene pool would not suffice to rebuild the world. The Original 34, as they came to be hailed by their clone children, were the representatives of thirty-four aspects of theoretical science, hard science and applied sciences. Their clones continued on for generations until discovered by the Corsairs. Today, the 'privateers' enjoy top-of-the-line vessels, systems and weapons as a result of the "Uosa Secret".

Clones of Dzagok are little more than slaves to the Corsairs, but also very valuable as to be treated very carefully and under close watch. The clone-scientists in turn believe that their service is needed to solve problems within the local cluster and are all too happy to help in exchange for the needs of their 'cloneworld'.

Classic Era: 1105

Virus Era: 1130s

Virus and Vampire Fleets cause much damage to the infrastructure of Dzagok, resulting in deaths, reclamation, and many Privateer ships being infected or destroyed in this Era. Yet, the clone world manages to insulate its network on its own and erect a firewall of communications silence, thus cutting off the supply of its clone scientists, until quarantine protocols imported from Gvurrdon Sector arrive and are implemented by Uosa.

References

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.

• MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr (dot map provided)
• Author & Contributor: Michael Allyn Davis (generated data and names)
• Author & Contributor: The Pakkrat