Querion (world)

Querion/Querion (Spinward Marches 0614)
Classic Era (1116)	B554788-9 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 7 Moderate (80 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G6 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Querion is an agricultural world.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• It is a member of the Zhodani Consulate in the Province of Iadr Nsobl, in the Querion Subsector of Spinward Marches 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.
• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This world has a Zhodani Base, capable of handling warships.
• It is the home system of a Jovianoid species called the Sheol, who inhabit one of the system's gas giants.
• In the Zhodani Consulate this world is known as Shiadlia.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Querion has a solitary primary star.

• It is a yellow main sequence.

Querion has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G6 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.97	5550 - 5600	0.89888
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0088	0.0786	0.91 - 1.61	0.88	8.8
	Orbit #	*	*	3	3	7
	Remarks

System Data

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

• The mainworld, orbiting at 0.97 AU
• x8 secondary rocky worlds.
  • Erioque UWP F543668-9, a chilly tundra world orbing at at 1.41 AU, is the site of a major Military Base.
• x4 gas giants.
  • The second of these is a large gas giant called Sheol that has native Jovianoid lifeforms.

Mainworld Data

It is protected by a military base that takes up all of Querion’s sister planet, Erioque.

It orbits within its star's habitable zone.

• It receives moderate levels of stellar energy.

Mainworld Size (S)

Querion is a Meso World between 7,200km and 8,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.4G and 0.57G. The horizon will appear about 4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Querion 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)

Querion has 35-45% of its surface covered by liquid water. There will be a number of small seas or one larger body of water. Wilderness refueling is possible.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

Native Lifeforms

One of the gas giants in the system is named Sheol and is the homeworld of the minor alien race also known as the Sheol.

History & Background (Dossier)

Querion serves as the Zhodani capital of the subsector.

Querion's main industry is the bureaucracy of the subsector, with a large number of ambassadors based here before going to the various neutral worlds. Imperial agencies claim that the Tavrchedl' (Thought Police) keep a large contingent of agents here.

Sheol

Commercial ships normally refueled at the system's larger gas giant, so Sheol was rarely visited. For centuries, those rare starship crews who had been there relayed stories of strange, vast creatures sighted within the atmosphere. While gas giant atmosphere-dwellers had been previously observed elsewhere in the Spinward Marches, e.g. at Komesh in the Boughene system, and at least one starfaring gas giant race existed (the Jgd-il-Jagd), no-one expected to find a civilization on Sheol.

Sheol has an estimated population of 10 billion "messengers" and several hundred million "squid mothers", though exact figures for both Sheol races are uncertain.

During the Fourth Frontier War, the Imperial Navy frontier cruiser Haunting Thunder was lost while attempting refuel at Sheol. Three vacc-suited Human crewmen were recovered by the natives, and first contact was made.

World Starport (Sp)

Querion has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Population (P)

Querion has a population of 80,000,000 sophonts (tens of millions).

• The population consists mostly of Zhodani.
• The gas giant Sheol supports a native civilization, also known as Sheol.

Linguistic Topography

• Zdetl, the common language of the Zhodani Consulate.

World Government (G)

Querion is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy leadership influences policy. The government leadership may select the bureaucracy leadership, but not its membership. Usually the governmental leadership is divided, or incapable of setting policy, and the bureaucracy provides a stabilizing influence. This ruling bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucractic apparatus or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence, like the military.

The Zhodani Consulate maintains itself through a variety of taxes on goods and services. Each council -- planetary or higher -- has the authority to levy a tax on gross income to support services like hospitals, emergency and transport services, or the Tavrchedl'.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Law Level (L)

Querion 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 blade weapons and firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

Three broad categories of crime are recognized by the Zhodani Consulate: inadvertent, incited, and insane. The concept of premeditated crime for personal gain fits under the insane heading.

• Inadvertent crime is an unintentional violation or infraction of the law, resulting from inattention. For minor cases the usual punishment is a small fine.
• Incited crime is an infraction of a law brought about by another, often resulting from an overreaction to inadvertent crime or misfortune. The solution is re-education.
• Insane crime is a general heading for most major crimes against property or individuals.

World Technology Level (TL)

Querion possesses a Technology Level of TL–9.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics and satellite communication and data networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fusion power.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Ultra high-speed trains and early grav vehicles.
  • Water: High efficiency sailcraft, multihulled seacraft, improved artificial gills.
  • Air: Tiltrotorcraft, exotic VTOL's, PARWIG, and rocket-assisted suborbitals.
  • Space: SSTO spacecraft, early military spacecraft (System Craft), and interstellar STL starships
  • FTL: Prototype Jump Drive-1.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Infrastructure

This world possesses TBD infrastructure.

World Culture

The Zhodani Consulate promotes the belief system of Tavrziansh, Morality's Path.

World Timeline

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

• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 589-604: First Frontier War.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 615-620: Second Frontier War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 800-820: the Psionics Suppressions.
• 979-986: Third Frontier War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
• 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
• 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.

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0614 Querion (Zhodani Subsector Capital)

Starport: Class IV.

Diameter: 2,113 miles (3,400 km).
Atmosphere: Thin oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 40%.
Climate: 40.
Population: 82.362 million.
Government: Civil service bureaucracy divided into 16 Bureaus, or councils.
Control Level: 4.
Tech Level: 9.
World Trade Number: 4.5.

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.

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