Saffron (Da 3018) (world)

Saffron/Kuriishe (Dagudashaag 3018) Milieu 1116 A646110-D Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 1 Low (10) Government 1 Company/Corporation Law 0 No Law Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M1 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Company or Corporation
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	1218
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	13
Economic Extension	401-3 Resources 4 Scarce Labor 0 Barren (1) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -3 Poor
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	3
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	7
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	130,490
Port passengers (annual)	0

Saffron supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Kuriishe Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Saffron, 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. This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships. During the Long Night this world was named Kaagii Shim.

Astrography and planetology

Saffron is a member of the Sylean Main.

Saffron has a solitary primary star.

Saffron Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
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History & Background

The planet Saffron, or New Saffron as it used to be called, is a private research facility owned by Saffron Tech, subsidized heavily by Imperial coffers. Saffron Tech is headed up by Professor Bej Siwel, one of the Imperium’s foremost scientists. Corporate visitors will be well served by the excellent starport, and will be unaware of the Imperial Navy ships in orbit. The Navy maintains a presence at Saffron to thwart untoward attempts by outsiders to obtain the advanced technology available on the planet.

Until 1099, only high ranking military officials and the Emperor himself are aware that Saffron was under the indirect control of the Imperium, via the back door subsidy that Saffron Tech received from it. Professor Siwel and all at Saffron Tech were also unaware that the Imperium has designated it as an Imperial Research Station - designation; Lambda-3. Siwel’s assistant Marla Gray was revealed, by an undercover INDISS Reporter, to be an Imperial agent. INDISS uncovered that the Imperium was considering taking over the facility and using their scientific discoveries for military applications. When the truth of the Imperium's involvement was uncovered, Saffron Tech managed to arrange for the Imperium to back out while maintaining its core funding. Public opinion was such that they also agreed that Saf-Tech discoveries in future would only be used in non-military applications.

Since then, Saffron has made a deal with Naasirka to develop some of their research for civilian use.

References and contributors

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.

• Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Kuriishe." Signal-GK 13 (1997): 22. via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 86.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 301-302.