Gesentown (world)

Gesentown/Cronor (Spinward Marches 0303) Milieu 1116 B31169B-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 6 Moderate (8 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law B Extreme Law (control of movement) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M2 V M9 V
Worlds	12
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Impersonal bureaucracy
Law Level	Extreme
Cultural Extension	887E
Army Size (BEs)	1
Economic Details
Technology Level	12
Economic Extension	956+4 Resources 9 Moderate Labor 5 Moderate (800 thousand) Infrastructure 6 Limited Efficiency +4 Advanced
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	1,080
GWP (BCr)	30
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	1,265
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	9,200
Port employees	110
Port passengers (annual)	6,500

Gesentown has a trace atmosphere and the little amount of surface water is in a frozen state. The system has a population in the millions, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. This world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it dangerous to visitors. It is a member of Zhodani Consulate in the Cronor Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Province of Iadr Nsobl. This world supports a Zhodani Military Base and the system supports a Zhodani Naval Base.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Gesentown is a binary star system.

• Both are red main sequence stars.

Gesentown has two stars in the star system.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0041	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.41	4.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks
Secondary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.079	2350 - 2380	0.00014
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0009	0.001	0.01 - 0.03	0.09	0.9
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	3
	Remarks		Approximately 750 AU from the primary.

System Data

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

• The mainworld. It is a moon of the system's tiny Brown Dwarf.
• x10 secondary rocky worlds. Two orbit the primary star, eight orbit the secondary star.
• x1 Y-type Brown Dwarf, orbiting the primary star.
  • It is so small by the standards of Brown Dwarfs that many star catalogs list it as a large gas giant.

Mainworld Data

Gesentown is the moon of a tiny (by the standards of stellar objects) Y-type Brown Dwarf.

• The Brown Dwarf has a similar diameter to a large gas giant but has exponentially more mass.
• It dominates the primary star's system, which contains only two rocky planets.

Mainworld Size (S)

Gesentown 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)

Gesentown 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)

Gesentown has 05-15% of its surface covered by ice, either in vast sheets or contained deep within craters or fractures on the surface. Wilderness refueling is possible. Water for the inhabitants can be got by mining and melting ice.

• The surface of the world is composed of a crust of ice many kilometers thick.
• Much of the surface is cratered and covered in thick layers of regolith and dust of meteoric origin, leaving only a small amount of the icy outer shell exposed.
• Below the outer icy shell there may be a world-ocean of liquid water.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

(Blank map, trace atmosphere world.)

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IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

0303 Gesentown (Zhodani)

Starport: Class IV - Naval Base, Consular Guard base.

Diameter: 1,529 miles (2,400 km).
Atmosphere: Trace oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 5%.
Climate: Very Cold.
Population: 8,045,000.
Government: Military Rule.
Control Level: 5.
Tech Level: 10.
World Trade Number: 4.

History & Background (Dossier)

In the Zhodani Consulate this world is known as Zhdienshdo.

This world is a base for a large contingent of the elite Consular Guard and its position is somewhat unique as a result. The CG units based are not apart 12th Fleet's command structure and answer directly to the Subsector Council on Cronor. This arrangement indicates that this force was intended, during the long Imperial-Zhodani conflict, to prevent "cultural infection" of colonial governments and the local military structure by outside Imperial influences. Despite the relaxation of tensions with the Imperials, this garrison remains in place and has been increasingly vital in the face of the Zhodani Exodus.

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 4-5.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 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): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 36. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 38.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 98. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 26.