Pimane (world)

Pimane/Mora (Spinward Marches 2527) Milieu 1116 E500343-7 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 3 Low (9 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K0 V
Worlds	10
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	1124
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	521-5 Resources 5 Scarce Labor 2 Low (900) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	5
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-E
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Pimane is a vacuum world, with no atmosphere or hydrosphere. The system supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Mora Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Pimane, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world.

Astrography & Planetology

Pimane is a member of the Spinward Main.

There are rumors that deep valleys on the surface of Pimane contain both atmosphere and life, although the surface plains are star-baked vacuum.

Pimane has a solitary primary star.

Pimane primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.88	5170 - 5270	0.63928
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0076	0.0663	0.78 - 1.4	0.76	7.6
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

At first glance, Pimane appears to be nothing more than a struggling domed village on the surface of an inhospitable and featureless plain. Your first glance is correct.

There is, however, evidence that deep valleys on the surface of Pimane contain both atmosphere and life, although the surface plains are star-baked vacuum. While there have been proposals to set up several small scientific research laboratories to investigate this, so far funding and offworld interest have been insufficient. The most accepted hypothesis holds that the world originally held an atmosphere and supported life, but a cataclysmic collision with a rogue world stripped off Pimane's atmosphere several million years ago.

Reports of these airpockets are only as valid as the unproven reports of local explorers, who seem more interested in local notoriety than scientific accuracy. Anyway, exploration is very hazardous; local technology is hazardous enough, and the single city of Hope's End is far from the deep canyons that break up the surface of the planet. Add to that almost-invisible pools of fine dust, some deep enough to swallow a starship, and incentive to stay home is very high.

Not that staying home is very attractive. Hope's End is a dismal community, with few facilities for the traveller. The so-called Starport is nothing more than a concrete pad raised ten meters above the surrounding plain, kept mostly free of dust. Reactionless drives are compulsory to avoid stirring up any dust around the area.

It is recommended that you bring all supplies with you. Off-planet goods are prohibitively expensive, and local food is all too obviously derived exclusively from the algae which replenishes the atmosphere, along with a local fungus to provide texture.

TAS Advisories

• Do not use terrain-following on the surface.
• Land only at the starport.
• Only reactionless thrusters and contra-grav permitted.
• Berthing fees are unusually high.

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), 32-33.
• 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), 46-47. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 111-112.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 114. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Citation Missing - Behind the Claw (UWP only)