Shuulikh (world)

Shuulikh/Sapphyre (Dagudashaag 1939) Milieu 1116 C88A585-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics A Water World 100% Population 5 Moderate (600 thousand) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M2 V
Worlds	12
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	3437
Army Size (BEs)	1
Economic Details
Technology Level	9
Economic Extension	943-3 Resources 9 Moderate Labor 4 Moderate (60 thousand) Infrastructure 3 Very limited Efficiency -3 Poor
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	76
GWP (BCr)	1
World Trade Number	3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	530
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	3
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	35
Port passengers (annual)	0

Shuulikh is a water world with a breathable, habitable atmosphere. The population is in the hundreds of thousands of sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Sapphyre Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Shuulikh, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and a baronet. Both are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• During the Long Night this world was named Shuurlerdaguus.

Astrography and planetology

Shuulikh is almost entirely covered in oceans of liquid water. Thick icecaps, in some places over a kilometer deep, extend from the poles to the mid-latitudes. Although the sea is liquid around the equator, icebergs and pack ice are a constant hazard.

Shuulikh has a solitary primary star.

Shuulikh
	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 and background

Historical records from the Second Imperium show this world was inhabited by Chirpers.

A small chirper population exists on the world. The live an isolated, nomadic existence on the permanent icecaps and shun outside contact. Little is know about how they survive in the harsh, freezing conditions.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Shuulikh, 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 of a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversees 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.

World Starport

Shuulikh 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.

Port facilities are located on a large equatorial island, the only dry land on the world. Shuulikh's entire human population are port and startown workers and their dependents. Governmental duties are carried out by port administration personnel and policing is carried out by hired operatives.

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.

• Jae Campbell. "Library Data: Sapphyre." Signal-GK 07 (1993): 17.
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 83.