Htaastea (world)

Htaastea/Eietorl Easea' (Touchstone 3003)
Classic Era (1116)	C9B5ABD-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 9 Large (14,400 km, 1.03g - 1.33g) Atmosphere B Exotic (corrosive) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population A High (20 billion) Government B Non-Charismatic Dictator Law D Extreme Law (paramilitary law) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F6 V M0 V D
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	0

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Htaastea is a high-population, industrial world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• Its economy is rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to rapidly improve barring outside forces.
• This world is part of the Aslan Hierate, as a single multiple-world clan dominate, in the Eietorl Easea' Subsector of Touchstone Sector.

• An Aslan clan base is esablished here.

History and Background

Htaastea is often referred to as the "Aslan Barbary" by human ship crews. A dour world shrouded in nitrogen, sulfuric acid and hydrogen sulfide, it was settled to exploit its strategic position along the main trade route into Beyond Sector. It is also an impoverished world of clans down on their luck, only one step from exile to a remote frontier world. Many of the more desperate clans sell out to pirates, or are willing to prostitute themselves to other clans to do dishonorable actions that their employers/lieges do not want to be associated with. Many Tlaukhu clans have attempted to clean up the world in the past, hence the very high law level. Despite the severity of legal enforcement, these same clans usually fall under the sway of local fixers, tempted to take advantage of the worlds cheap, throwaway labor pool.

The world's nickname is derived from the large number of Aslan and human privateers that have a base on the world, offering their services to willing clans for an appropriate price.

World Languages

• Trokh: The universal language of the modern Aslan monoculture.
  • Aslan Languages: Note that some Aslan clans retain obscure or archaic languages for personal use in addition to Trokh.

References

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.

• Peter Gray - Gray Matter