Victoria (SM 1817) (world)

Victoria/Lanth (Spinward Marches 1817)
Classic Era (1116)	D6D7772-2 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere D Exotic (dense, high) Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 7 Moderate (10 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 2 Low Law (no energy weapons) Tech Level 2 Pre-Industrial (printing)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K6 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	2

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Victoria does not meet the criteria for any standard classification.

• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Lanth Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector in the Domain of Deneb.
• This is a "low technology" world with technology competencies well below standard for Charted Space.
• This is a "forbidden" world designated as a Red Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it extremely dangerous to visitors. Everyone is forbidden to travel here.
• This world contains an archaeological site with suspected high-tech remnants of the now-vanished Ancients precursor race.
• It is located just off of the Lanth-Ghandi-Dinomn xboat route.
• It lies within the Abyss Rift.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Victoria has a solitary primary star.

• It is an orange main sequence.

Victoria has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K6 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.69	4100 - 4300	0.27288
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0062	0.0433	0.53 - 0.99	0.62	6.2
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
	Remarks

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x4 secondary rocky worlds.
• x1 planetoid belt.
• x2 gas giants.

Mainworld Data

Victoria is a medium size world with a dense, tainted atmosphere. The taint requires an oxygen supply or full sealed environment suit to survive, but exists only at the lower elevations. Above 1000m the atmosphere is safe to breathe.

It orbits within its star's habitable zone.

• It receives moderate levels of stellar energy.

Mainworld Size (S)

Victoria is a Meso World between 8,800km and 10,400km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.6G and 0.8G. The horizon will appear about 4.4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Victoria has a pressure of 2.5 or greater atmospheres. A Dense & High Pressure Atmosphere typically requires no survival gear under many conditions. Pressure at or below sea level is too great to support life but the atmosphere may be breathable at higher altitudes. TL–5 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

• Breathing the atmosphere at altitudes of less than 1000 meters without protective equipment will result in carboxyl poisoning.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Victoria has 65-75% of its surface covered by liquid water or ice heavily tainted with other substances, which makes it dangerous, corrosive, or toxic. Wilderness refueling will be difficult. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds may be Hell Worlds.

• The water on the surface may be unsuitable for use or consumption without extensive filtering and purification.
• Refining for fuel may cause issues with shipboard purification plants.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

An early map of Victoria, done at the time of the First Survey.

• More modern charts of the world are not generally available.

Satellites

Victoria has a single moon, Albert, which is large enough to retain an atmosphere and even appears to have some surface water.

• Its UWP is H251000-0. It is extremely heavily cratered.
• It orbits Victoria once every few weeks.
• It is a Forbidden World. No visitors are permitted.
• There have been reports of a stone (or sometimes crystalline) city on the surface.

Native Lifeforms

Abundant native life occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

• Kudebeck's Gazelle

History & Background (Dossier)

Victoria is a Forbidden World and is designated as a Red Zone. It presents serious risks and dangers due to the environment or native life forms, laws or customs, or other conditions that make it extremely dangerous to visitors.

• Travel to this world is prohibited.

While proper permits might allow visits to Victoria, such permits include strict clauses about trading specific types of metal or metal goods to the locals, and specifically prohibits access to Victoria’s moon, Albert. Permits make it perfectly clear that lethal force may be used without warning against any vessel approaching the moon.

Point of Interest: Orbital Bombardment Evidence

Approximately 300,000 years ago Victoria appears to have been subject to a devastating bombardment from space by a variety of weapons, most notably asteroids. The bombardment resulted in a number of immense craters, some of which are today seas or great lakes; the Mesas also appear to have been created by the bombardment.

World Starport (St)

Victoria has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Population (P)

Victoria has a population of 10,000,000 sophonts (tens of millions).

Urbanization

The people dwell on high ground, mainly in a region known as the Mesas.

• In addition to the City of Victoria, the other major settlement on the planet is Sarik Gi.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• A local language descended from Anglic and Vilani, the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Technology Level (T)

Victoria possesses a Technology Level of TL–2.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Runners or beast relay, the printing press, long distance signaling such as the heliograph and semaphore.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Water wheels and wind power.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Riding beasts and creature-drawn wheeled vehicles.
  • Water: Sailing vessels.
  • Air: Typically not available unless a bodily ability or ride-able flying beasts available.

Air travel has become a reality on Victoria. Balloons and dirigibles, a relatively new technological development on the world and usually powered by manually driven airscrews, have made travel possible to high elevation habitable areas previously cut off by low ground. Additional buoyant gas is usually carried in large earthenware containers. Most balloons and dirigibles are relatively small, able to carry a few personnel and a little cargo, but much larger, far more ambitious vehicles are being designed and constructed.

World Government (G)

Victoria has a Balkanized Government. There is no central world government. The world has several governments competing for control of the world. These may be allies, cooperating, competitors, or at war with each other.

World Law (L)

Victoria has a low law level. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate. Portable energy weapons, body pistols, explosives, and poison gas are typically regulated or prohibited.

Trade Data

• Importance: -2 (very unimportant)

World Economy

• Resources: 9 (moderate)
• Labor: 6 (millions)
• Infrastructure: 3 (very limited)
• Efficiency: -5 (extremely poor)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 3 (xenophobic)
• Acceptance: 5 (very aloof)
• Strangeness: 1 (very typical)
• Symbols: 1 (extremely concrete)

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.

References and contributors

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), pages 22-23.
• Marc Miller. Annic Nova, Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 01 (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), page 32.
• Marc Miller. Victoria, Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 02 (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), pages 14-25.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), pages 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): pages 47-58. (UWP only)
• Martin Rait. "Spinward Marches Pre-Imperial History." Meshan Saga 07 (1988): pages 13-14.
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 42. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), page 86.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 104. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), pages 71-72.