Sykell (world)

Sykell/Isi Ahto (Gushemege 3112)
Classic Era (1116)	C310414-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (90 thousand) Government 1 Company/Corporation Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M1 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	0

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Sykell is a nonindustrial world, that requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.

• In a technological universe, societies without industrial capability generally suffer as nearly all manufactured and high tech goods must be brought in at significant cost.
• 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.
• It is a member of the Lancian Cultural Region, a sub-polity of the Third Imperium, located in the Isi Ahto Subsector of Gushemege Sector.

• It is also known to some as Gvuenungllu.
• Sykell is located on the Vilani Main.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Sykell has a solitary primary star.

• It is a red main sequence.

Sykell has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x12 secondary rocky worlds.
• x1 planetoid belt.

Mainworld Data

Mainworld Size (S)

Sykell is a Small World between 4,000km and 5,600km in diameter. The world has low gravity between 0.24G and 0.34G. The horizon will appear about 3km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Sykell has a pressure of less than 0.1 atmospheres which requires the use of a Vacc Suit. TL–8 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Sykell has no free-standing water or ice on the surface. Wilderness refueling isn't possible on this world. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are classified Desert World or a Hell World depending on their atmosphere.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

(Blank map, trace atmosphere world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Sykell, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.

Trade Data

• Importance: 0 (unimportant)

World Economy

• Resources: 7 (few)
• Labor: 3 (thousands)
• Infrastructure: 3 (very limited)
• Efficiency: -2 (fair)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 2 (monolithic)
• Acceptance: 4 (extremely aloof)
• Strangeness: 3 (somewhat typical)
• Symbols: 8 (somewhat aloof)

World Timeline

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

• circa -250,000: the Ancients transplant humans onto the world of Kukhun.
• -9235: the Vilani discover jump drive technology, and over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space. The Kukhunen culture acquires jump technology from these wanderers.
• circa -5400: the Vilani Consolidation Wars - the Kukhunen region is eventually conquered.
• -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka claims and settles worlds across the region.
• -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars.
• -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
• -1776 to 0: the Long Night. There is widespread regression within the area and some worlds become barren.
• circa -1700: the reemergent Kukhunen region gradually collapses into civil war.
• -1200: the Lancian movement rises to dominance on Kukhun and within Kukhunen space. Few ships are available throughout the period but limited contact is maintained.
• -143: the Lancians gain modern jump technology from Sylean traders and use it to establish the Lancian Confederation.
• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded. There are frictions with the Lancians.
• 76-84: the Vilani Pacification Campaign results in the absorbtion of the Confederation.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 639: the Lancian Cultural Region is established.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.

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.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 13. (Chart locating the world but no further data)
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11, 48, 49. (Historical overview)
• David Burden. "Contact: Lancians" Alien Realms, (1992), Volume 2 Issue 2, 8-13 (via HIWG). (The Lancians)
• Leighton Piper. "Contact: Lancians." Signal-GK 04 (1992): 4-7. (The Lancians)
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 22. (World details circa the Year 0)
• Martin Dougherty. Bearers of the Flame (Avenger Enterprises, 2006), 22. (World details circa the year 1248)
• Martin Dougherty. Scout Ships (Avenger Enterprises, 2007), 32. (Specific world details circa the year 1248)
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 212-213. (The Lancians)
• Author & Contributor: David Burden of the HIWG. (Extensive development of the sector)