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This system is part of the [[Balboa Cluster]].
 
This system is part of the [[Balboa Cluster]].
  
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=== Stellar Data ===
 
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==== World Demographics ====
 
==== World Demographics ====
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[[File:Dolphin Liz Danforth 1980 JTAS06 p38.jpg|300 px|right]]
 
60% of the population are [[Dolphin]]; most of the remaining 40% are [[Solomani]].
 
60% of the population are [[Dolphin]]; most of the remaining 40% are [[Solomani]].
  
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==== World Language/s ====
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==== Linguistic Topography ====
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* [[Anglic]]
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* [[Rim Anglic]], a dialect of [[Anglic]] and the principal language of the [[Solomani Confederation|Confederation]].
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* [[Delphinic Trinary]]
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* [[Delphinic Trinary]], the principal language of [[Dolphin]]s.
 
** This language, also known as Delphinese, involves various clicks, rasps, chirps, creaks, hoots and whistles. Due to the spread of Dolphins across Charted Space, it has evolved into a multitude of dialects. It can take a Dolphin some time to learn a new dialect; errors are often seen by both parties as humorous.  
 
** This language, also known as Delphinese, involves various clicks, rasps, chirps, creaks, hoots and whistles. Due to the spread of Dolphins across Charted Space, it has evolved into a multitude of dialects. It can take a Dolphin some time to learn a new dialect; errors are often seen by both parties as humorous.  
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** For communication with humans and other races, most Dolphins speak ordinary, if flowery, Anglic.
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** For communication with humans and other races, most Dolphins speak ordinary, if flowery, [[Anglic]].
  
 
=== World Technology Level ===
 
=== World Technology Level ===
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==== World Timeline ====
 
==== World Timeline ====
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Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:
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* [[-9235]]: Far to [[coreward]], the [[Vilani]] discover [[jump drive]] technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across [[Charted Space]].
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* [[-4045]] to [[-2204]]: The ''[[First Imperium|Ziru Sirka]]'' controls vast territories.
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* [[-2431]]: [[Terran]]s discover [[jump drive]] technology.
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* [[-2404]] to [[-2215]]: The [[Interstellar Wars]].
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* [[-2204]] to [[-1776]]: The [[Rule of Man]] administers the former ''[[First Imperium|Ziru Sirka]]''.
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* [[-1862]] to [[-1110]]: The [[Terran Mercantile Community]] is active across the region.
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* [[-1776]] to [[0]]: The [[Long Night]].
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* [[-1110]] to [[588]]: The [[Terran Mercantile Community]] gradually becomes the [[Old Earth Union]], shrinking to control the region around [[Terra]].
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* [[0|The Year 0]]: To [[coreward]], the [[Third Imperium]] is founded.
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* [[300]]-[[420]]: The {{Imperial}} [[First Survey]] charts the system.
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* [[588]]: The [[Old Earth Union]] and the former territories of the [[Terran Mercantile Community]] are annexed by the {{Imperium}}.
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* [[604]]-[[622]]: The {{Imperial}} [[Civil War]].
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* [[624]]: The {{Imperial}} [[Express Boat Network]] is established.
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* [[704]]: The [[Solomani Autonomous Region]] is formed.
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* [[800]]-[[820]]: The [[Psionics Suppressions]].
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* [[871]]: The [[Solomani Confederation]] is founded.
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* [[940]]: The [[Solomani Autonomous Region]] is dissolved.
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* [[990]]-[[1002]]: The [[Solomani Rim War]].
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* [[995]]-[[1065]]: The {{Imperial}} [[Second Survey]] includes data for the system.
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* [[1065]]: The [[Second Survey]] is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
  
 
==== UWP Listing ====
 
==== UWP Listing ====
 
No information yet available.
 
No information yet available.
  
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== References & Contributors / Sources ==
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== References & Contributors (Sources) ==
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{{Intermediate}}
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{{Detail}}  
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{{Detail}}
 
 
{{Sources
 
{{Sources
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|S1= {{CT}} [[Solomani (Alien Module)|Alien Module 6: Solomani]] (named but no further data)
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|S1= [[John Harshman]], [[Marc Miller]], [[Loren Wiseman]]. {{CT}} ''[[Library Data (A-M)|Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M)]]'', ([[Game Designers Workshop]], 1981), various pages. (Library data entries)
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|S2= {{MT}} [[Alien - Solomani & Aslan]] (dot map provided)
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|S2= [[John Harshman]], [[Marc Miller]], [[Loren Wiseman]]. {{CT}} ''[[Library Data (N-Z)|Supplement 11 Library Data (N-Z)]]'', ([[Game Designers Workshop]], 1982), various pages. (Library data entries)
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|S3= [[T20]] [[Fighting Ships of the Solomani]]
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|S3= {{Ludography cite|name= Solomani |version= Classic Traveller|page= IFC}} (sector named, background for the sector)
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|S4= [[Mongoose Traveller: Solomani]]
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|S4= {{Ludography cite|name= Imperial Encyclopedia |version= MegaTraveller|page= IFC}} (Wars of the [[Imperium]]: sector named and shown)
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|S5= Author & Contributor: [[Randy Dorman]]
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|S5= {{Ludography cite|name= Solomani & Aslan |page= pages 8-11, various others}} (dot map locating the worlds of the sector, background for the sector)
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|S6=
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|S6= {{Ludography cite|name= Fighting Ships of the Solomani|page= page 5}} (background for the sector)
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|S7=
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|S7= {{Ludography cite|name= Solomani |version= Mongoose Traveller|page= pages 25, 65, 74, 119, 120, 134, 169, 174}} (background for the sector)
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|S8= [http://zho.berka.com/data/CLASSIC/sector.pl?sector=NEWORLD Zho Berka's Maps] (Classic Era [[Universal World Profile|UWP Data]] for the world)
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|S9= [https://www.ocean-of-storms.com/core/astrogat/jH.htm Ocean of Storms site] (Rebellion Era UWP Data for the sector)
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|S10= Author & Contributor: [[User:Garnfellow|Garnfellow]] (development of the sector)
 
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[[Category: Dolphin worlds]]
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[[Category: Balboa-Coronel Cluster worlds]]
 
[[Category: Humaniti worlds]]
 
[[Category: Humaniti worlds]]
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[[Category: Rule of Man worlds]]
 
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[[Category: Second Imperium worlds]]
 
 
[[Category: Solomani worlds]]
 
[[Category: Solomani worlds]]
 
[[Category: Solomani Sphere worlds]]
 
[[Category: Solomani Sphere worlds]]
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[[Category: Terran Confederation worlds]]
 
 
[[Category: Terran Mercantile Community worlds]]
 
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{{LE|Binary Star System|T5 Second Survey worlds}}
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{{LE|Era: Milieu 1116|T5 Second Survey}}

Latest revision as of 07:35, 21 December 2025

Chesapeake/Splendour (Neworld 0505)
Classic Era (1116)
C87956A-8
StarportC Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere7 Standard (tainted)
Hydrographics9 Wet World 90%
Population5 Moderate (200 thousand)
Government6 Captive Government/Colony
LawA Extreme Law (no weapons)
Tech Level8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary K2 V K2 V
Planetoid Belts 3
Gas Giants 2
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Jump map from Travellermap.com [1]

Chesapeake 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 Solomani Confederation in the Splendour Subsector of Neworld Sector.
  • About 60% of the population is composed of Dolphins.
  • Less than 10% of the population is composed of baseline Solomani.
  • This world is controlled by Prospero

Description / Astrography & Planetology[edit]

This system is part of the Balboa Cluster.

Stellar Data[edit]

Chesapeake has two stars in the star system.
Chesapeake
Solitary K Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
K2 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.82 4830 - 5100 0.49928
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0073 0.0586 0.7 - 1.26 0.73 7.3
Orbit #  *  * 3 2 6
Remarks
Chesapeake
Solitary K Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
K2 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.82 4830 - 5100 0.49928
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0073 0.0586 0.7 - 1.26 0.73 7.3
Orbit #  *  * 3 2 6
Remarks

System Data[edit]

No information yet available.

Mainworld Data[edit]

No information yet available.

Mainworld Geography & Topography[edit]

No information yet available.

Mainworld Map[edit]

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms[edit]

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

Fauna includes the enythba, a gargantuan aquatic animal. Preferring to live in the lower depths of the oceans, enythba suffer at lower pressures. These quasi-cephalopods hunt large ocean animals by stunning the prey, trapping it in two large front pincers before ripping it apart.

History & Background / Dossier[edit]

No information yet available.

World Starport[edit]

Chesapeake has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Population (P)[edit]

Chesapeake has a population of 200,000 sophonts (hundreds of thousands).

  • This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.

World Demographics[edit]

Dolphin Liz Danforth 1980 JTAS06 p38.jpg

60% of the population are Dolphin; most of the remaining 40% are Solomani.

Linguistic Topography[edit]

  • Rim Anglic, a dialect of Anglic and the principal language of the Confederation.
  • Delphinic Trinary, the principal language of Dolphins.
    • This language, also known as Delphinese, involves various clicks, rasps, chirps, creaks, hoots and whistles. Due to the spread of Dolphins across Charted Space, it has evolved into a multitude of dialects. It can take a Dolphin some time to learn a new dialect; errors are often seen by both parties as humorous.
    • For communication with humans and other races, most Dolphins speak ordinary, if flowery, Anglic.

World Technology Level[edit]

Chesapeake possesses a Technology Level of TL–8.

  • Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics, improved telephones, and satellite communication and data networks.
  • Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Improved geothermal and improved batteries.
  • Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
    • Land: Advanced automobiles.
    • Water: Triphibians and early artificial gills.
    • Air: Improved helicopters and hypersonic jets.
    • Space: Space shuttles, early space stations, and improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

World Government[edit]

Chesapeake has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. This is a colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.

World Law Level[edit]

No information yet available.

World Military[edit]

No information yet available.

World Economy[edit]

No information yet available.

Trade Data[edit]

No information yet available.

Urbanization[edit]

No information yet available.

Historical Data[edit]

No information yet available.

World Timeline[edit]

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

UWP Listing[edit]

No information yet available.

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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