Creading (world)

Creading/Sashrakusha (Corridor 3140)
Classic Era (1116)	A66A425-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics A Water World 100% Population 4 Moderate (90 thousand) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Creading is a nonindustrial water world, which has 90% or more of its surface covered in an ocean of water.

• The inhabitants of this world live on the roughly 10% of exposed land mass, in underwater colonies, on city ships, or similar arrangements.
• 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 Third Imperium in the Sashrakusha Subsector of Corridor Sector in the Domain of Vland.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.

Description (Planetology)

Creading is located on the Vilani Main. Specifically, it is located in the region known as the Shurgi Main.

Stellar Data

Creading has a solitary primary star.

Creading
	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

History & Background (Dossier)

Imperial Landed Nobility

Creading, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.

World Starport

Creading 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.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are most commonly heard:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Kehuu, the primary Lancian language, as common on the worlds of the Cultural Region as Anglic or Vilani.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Timeline

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

• circa -250,000: The Ancients transplant Humans onto the world of Kukhun.
• -9235: The Vilani discover jump drive technology, and over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space. The Kukhunen culture acquires jump technology from these wanderers.
• circa -5400: The Vilani Consolidation Wars -- the Kukhunen region is eventually conquered.
• -4045 to -2204: The Ziru Sirka claims and settles worlds across the region.
• -2404 to -2215: The Interstellar Wars.
• -2204 to -1776: The Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
• -1776 to 0: The Long Night. There is widespread regression within the area and some worlds become barren.
• circa -1700: The reemergent Kukhunen region gradually collapses into civil war.
• -1200: The Lancian movement rises to dominance on Kukhun and within Kukhunen space. Few ships are available throughout the period but limited contact is maintained.
• -143: The Lancians gain modern jump technology from Sylean traders and use it to establish the Lancian Confederation.
• The Year 0: The Third Imperium is founded. There are frictions with the Lancians.
• 76-84: The Vilani Pacification Campaign results in the absorption of the Confederation.
• 300-420: The Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 604-622: The Civil War.
• 624: The Express Boat Network is established.
• 639: The Lancian Cultural Region is established.
• 995-1065: The Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: The Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.

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.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), .
• Gary L. Thomas. "Corridor Sector Data/Library." The Travellers' Digest 18 (1989): 33-34.
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), .
• Martin Dougherty. The Great Rift (Mongoose Publishing, 2018), .