Garda-Vilis (world)

Garda-Vilis/Vilis (Spinward Marches 1118) Milieu 1116 B978868-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 9 Large (14,400 km, 1.03g - 1.33g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 8 Moderate (500 million) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M3 V
Worlds	14
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Captive government
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	8A5A
Army Size (BEs)	150
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	D7B+2 Resources D Very abundant Labor 7 Moderate (50 million) Infrastructure B Very extensive Efficiency +2 Good
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	2,002
GWP (BCr)	1,830
World Trade Number	5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	31,920
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	500,000
Port employees	8,610
Port passengers (annual)	35,700

Garda-Vilis is a moderate-population world, with too many sophonts to be an agricultural world but not enough to be an industrial world. The governance of this world is from Vilis (Spinward Marches 1119). It is a member of Third Imperium in the Vilis Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Garda-Vilis, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and a baronet, and the fiefdoms of a marquis and a viscount. All four are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. This world contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel.

Garda-Vilis (world)/Vilis (Spinward Marches 1118) New Era B978987-B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 9 Large (14,400 km, 1.03g - 1.33g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 9 High (5 billion) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	8B58
Army Size (BEs)	1200
Economic Details
Technology Level	11
Economic Extension	D8B-1 Resources D Very abundant Labor 8 Moderate (500 million) Infrastructure B Very extensive Efficiency -1 Average
Importance Extension	4
Resource Units	1,030
GWP (BCr)	14,347
World Trade Number	5.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	333,101
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	3,080,000
Port employees	42,260
Port passengers (annual)	283,200

Era: New Era

Tanoose system has a population between 10 and 100 million sophonts. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Vilis Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. This world is an Interface world, with a quarantine inspection facility for all ships. This world contains a Regency Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel.

• This world has also been known as Tanoose (world).

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This system is located in the Vilis Trace.

Garda-Vilis is a fairly large planet with a normal climate, extensive ocean coverage, and a standard oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere designated as tainted since 25% of humans find that it seriously irritates nasal membranes for the first few weeks of exposure.

Garda-Vilis has a solitary primary star.

Garda-Vilis
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M3 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.37	3270 - 3430	0.03081
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0034	0.0146	0.18 - 0.35	0.34	3.4
	Orbit #	*	*	0	1	5
	Remarks		None

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

1118 Garda-Vilis (anoose (Imperial) - Amber Zone

Starport: Class IV.

Diameter: 8,965 miles (14,300 km).
Atmosphere: Standard oxygen-nitrogen designated as tainted since 25% of humans find it seriously irritates nasal membranes for the first few weeks of exposure.
Hydrographics: 80%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 923,000,000.
Government: Anarchy (starport under martial law enforced by Imperial Navy).
Control Level: 1.
Tech Level: 9.
World Trade Number: 5.

History & Background (Dossier)

The majority of the world’s more than 470 million inhabitants dwell on the world’s largest continent, mostly around the coasts. The major population center and capital has grown up around the world’s large Downport, which also serves a small Imperial Scout Base. The remainder of the population is scattered about the largest continents in small cities and farming communities.

Garda-Vilis was originally settled in -121 by Sword Worlders from the Sacnoth Dominate and named Danuuz, which eventually became Tanoose. However, this colony failed and the planet was eventually claimed by nearby Vilis (Spinward Marches 1119) and renamed Garda-Vilis (New Vilis). Ever since, Garda-Vilis has been exploited to the benefit of Vilis. Vilis encouraged agriculture but maintained strict control on the development of heavy industry, keeping the colony economically dependent.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Garda-Vilis, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the estate and fiefdoms of three members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial marquis.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.

World Government

The world government of Garda-Vilis is a highly unpopular council of Vilis army officers, which led the formation of the Tanoose Freedom League (TFL), loyal to the Imperium but determined to secure home rule. A low-level insurgency went on for some time, flaring up in 1103 and again in 1105. Support for the rebels came from the Sword Worlds and Zhodani Consulate. When the rebellion was put down, the atrocities perpetrated by Vilis troops and mercenaries against the civilian populace triggered an Imperial intervention, with Marine battalions deployed to the world.

History-Era: Milieu 1120

After the Fifth Frontier War, various ill-fated attempts were made to settle the Garda-Vilis question, with the result that the world became balkanized, with one part of the world an Imperial Protectorate while other factions controlled other areas.

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 Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), . in Articles: "Hundreds of Worlds" and "The Spinward Marches"
• Classic Traveller Adv 7: Broadsword in Article: "The Situation"
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 41.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 62.Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 62.
• Mongoose Traveller: Spinward Marches