Luken (world)

Luken/Laraa (Dagudashaag 3037)
Milieu 0	C543344-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 3 Low (3 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
Classic Era (1116)	C543589-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 5 Moderate (100 thousand) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K2 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	3

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Luken is a poor, nonindustrial world.

• 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.
• This world has few prospects for economic development.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Laraa Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector in the Domain of Vland.

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• During the Long Night this world was named Shamem Er.

Description / Astrography & Planetology

No information yet available.

TBD has a solitary primary star.

TBD
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G3 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.99	5680 - 5720	0.96544
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0093	0.0815	0.94 - 1.66	0.93	9.3
	Orbit #	*	*	3	3	7
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System Data

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Mainworld Data

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Mainworld Geography & Topography

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Mainworld Map

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Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background / Dossier

The entire healthy adult population works mining out the various minerals and Sac-quai, an underground edible root that forms the mainstay of the Luken diet.

• The adults work two weeks at the mine followed by a week of rest (of Festival as the locals refer to it).
• The cities are occupied only by the elderly, the infirm, pregnant and nursing mothers, and youths under 16.
• This last factor has make Luken the juvenile crime capital of the quadrant and adults have been warned to avoid traveling at night beyond the Festival areas as bands of youth prey on lone Op-di's, as adults are known.

Imperial High / Landed Nobility

Luken, 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

Luken 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 Technology Level

Luken possesses a Technology Level of TL–9.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics and satellite communication and data networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fusion power.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Ultra high-speed trains and early grav vehicles.
  • Water: High efficiency sailcraft, multihulled seacraft, improved artificial gills.
  • Air: Tiltrotorcraft, exotic VTOL's, PARWIG, and rocket-assisted suborbitals.
  • Space: SSTO spacecraft, early military spacecraft (System Craft), and interstellar STL starships
  • FTL: Prototype Jump Drive-1.

World Government

Luken is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy leadership influences policy. The government leadership may select the bureaucracy leadership, but not its membership. Usually the governmental leadership is divided, or incapable of setting policy, and the bureaucracy provides a stabilizing influence. This ruling bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucractic apparatus or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence, like the military.

References & Contributors / Sources

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• Jae Campbell - Periodical: Signal-GK Issue #8 - HIWG
• T4 First Survey
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science