Cathay (world)

Cathay/Vega (Solomani Rim 2012)
Classic Era (1116)	A866ADC-E Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population A High (30 billion) Government D Religious Dictatorship Law C Extreme Law (no privacy) Tech Level E High Stellar (anti-grav cities)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M1 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	5

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Cathay is a high-population garden world with a billion or more sophonts in population size and a near-ideal utopian environment conducive to most sophonts.

• Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Vega Subsector of Solomani Rim Sector in the Domain of Sol.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.

Description (Planetology)

Stellar Data

Cathay 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

Mainworld Data

This is a Terran Norm garden world.

Mainworld Size (S)

Cathay is a Meso World between 12,000km and 13,500km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.8G and 1.1G. The horizon will appear about 5.1km away. Vessels with 1G of thrust should check with local starport authorities before attempting to land using emergency power.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Cathay has a pressure of 0.71 to 1.49 atmospheres. A Standard Atmosphere does not require survival gear and will likely be easy for most sophonts to breathe.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Cathay has 55-65% of its surface covered by liquid water. It has significant large liquid bodies. Wilderness refueling is possible.

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

2012 Cathay (Imperial)

Starport: Class V - Naval Base.

Diameter: 7,800 miles (12,500 km). Gravity: 1.00g.
Atmosphere: Standard oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 63%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 36 billion.
Government: Theocracy.
Control Level: 6.
Tech Level: 11.
World Trade Number: 6.

History & Background (Dossier)

Cathay, formerly known as Deraanasa (Anglic: Deraanasa), is a high-population garden world.

This world is actually called Zhongguo by its inhabitants, who are predominantly of Chinese-Vilani descent. Although Cathay was located in space bordering both the Vegan Polity and the Easter Concord, Cathayan society deliberately shut itself off from all outside contact during the Long Night, remaining independent. During this period of isolation, a religious movement, Tianhe, arose and spread across the planet. Tianhe was concerned with the proper way to construct an ordered and sane society.

Today, Cathay's rulers have struck a balance between cultural isolation and interstellar contact. Certain regions of the planet are defined as "Open Commercial Zones", and offworlders are free to live and move about within those zones. The rest of the planet is off-limits to foreigners.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Cathay, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdom of a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversees affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.

Local law forbids Cathayan citizens from accepting Imperial noble titles unless they take up residence in the commercial zones (or leave the planet entirely). As a result, an unusually high proportion of the planet's Imperial nobles have been of foreign descent.

World Starport (St)

Cathay has a Class A Starport, an excellent 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 other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

• There is an associated Naval Base.

World Population (P)

Catahy has a population of 30,000,000,000 sophonts (tens of billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Terran languages of Chinese origin
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Technology Level (T)

Cathay possesses a Technology Level of TL–14 or TL-E in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early meson communicators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, early collectors, and advanced fusion plants.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land, Water & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-5.

World Government (G)

Cathay is governed by a Religious Dictatorship. The leadership of the government is another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy). There is a powerful independent organization, the state religion, which has influence or direct control of the government. Like the bureaucratic governments this may simply be a strong influence with a secular government, be direct influence by virtue of controlling who may be in the leadership, or be a direct theocracy where the church leadership and bureaucracy is the government.

• Supreme power is held by the Celestial Convocation, a group of career bureaucrats who hold both sacred and secular authority. The convocation meet in a city which was forbidden to foreigners, and deal with the Imperium only through intermediaries.

World Culture

Cathay was never an enthusiastic supporter of the Solomani Movement, given its cultural isolationism and the Vilani elements in its population. Pro-Solomani agitation existed on the planet, but was mostly confined to those ethnic minorities who hadn't accepted tianhe or other aspects of local Chinese-descended culture.

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.

• Classic Traveller Solomani (Alien Module)
• GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars
• GURPS Traveller: Rim of Fire
• Mongoose Traveller: Solomani Rim