Atina (world)

250 px

Atina/Palasha (Massilia 2513)
Milieu 0	C631222-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 3 Vacuum (very thin) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 2 Low (00) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 2 Low Law (no energy weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
Classic Era (1116)	B6318A8-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 3 Vacuum (very thin) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 8 Moderate (900 million) Government A Charismatic Dictator Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M3 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

style="width: 220px; height: 250px;"

Jump map from Travellermap.com

Atina is a poor, non-agricultural, moderate population world with over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts in population size.

• It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• Life is trying on a world like this and inhabitants are constantly working towards developing a viable source of food production.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Palasha Subsector of Massilia Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• It lies on the Delphi Main.
• At the founding of the Imperium this world was known as Ervlan.

Atina System
Palasha/Atina 2513
Position	Distance	Name	UWP
Primary		Lumara	M3 V
1	0.44 AU	Miutus	Large GG
1	1 Diam	A Ring	YR00000-0
2	2 Diam	B Ring	YR00000-0
3	3 Diam	Moon	Y310000-0
4	5 Diam	Moon	Y320000-0
5	9 Diam	Moon	Y100000-0
6	11 Diam	Moon	Y510000-0
2	0.747 AU	Atina	B6318A8-A
3	1.29 AU	Ophus	F5A9268-9
1	1 Diam	A Ring	YR00000-0
4	2.7 AU	Drade	YAB7000-0
5	4.56 AU	Aigantu	YBCA000-0
1	4 Diam	Moon	Y200000-0
2	5 Diam	Moon	Y100000-0
3	8 Diam	Moon	Y200000-0
4	10 Diam	Moon	Y200000-0
6	6.37 AU	Vurn	Y400000-0
7	14.7 AU	Suipra	Y9A3000-0
8	31.9 AU	Llomia	Large GG
1	2 Diam	A Ring	YR00000-0
2	3 Diam	Moon	Y100000-0
3	4 Diam	Moon	Y100000-0
4	5 Diam	Moon	Y310000-0
5	10 Diam	Moon	Y200000-0
6	13 Diam	Moon	Y510000-0
9	74.2 AU	Mocarro	Y200000-0
1	3 Diam	Moon	Y100000-0
2	4 Diam	Moon	Y000000-0
3	7 Diam	Moon	Y000000-0
10	96.4 AU	Varvis	Y100000-0

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Atina has a solitary primary star.

• It is a red main sequence named Lumara.

Atina has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	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

The star and its system of worlds is around 8.9 Gyr old.

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld.
• x7 secondary rocky worlds.
  • Ophus, an ice world orbiting in the outer system.
  • Drade, an ice world orbiting in the outer system.
  • Aigantu, an bigworld orbiting in the outer system.
  • Vurn, an ice world orbiting in the outer system.
  • Suipra, an ice world orbiting in the outer system.
  • Mocarro, an ice world orbiting in the outer system.
  • Varvis, a worldlet orbiting in the outer system.

• x2 gas giants.
  • Miutus, a large gas giant orbiting in the outer system.
  • Llomia, a large gas giant orbiting in the outer system.

Mainworld Data

• The planet has an axial tilt of 20.93 degrees
• Atina has a sidereal day length of 28.1 hours
• The planet takes 310.96 days to rotate around its sun.

Mainworld Size (S)

Atina is a Meso World between 8,800km and 10,400km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.6G and 0.8G. The horizon will appear about 4.4km away.

• The planet has been extensively surveyed and the diameter has been accurately established now as 9762 km.
• The planetary survey confirmed that Atina has a core that is mostly rock with a density of 0.71 Standard
• Surface gravity of the planet is 0.54g
• The mass of Atina is 0.32 standard

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Atina has a pressure of 0.10 to 0.42 atmospheres. The very thin pressures require a respirator or Oxygen Mask. TL–5 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Atina has 05-15% of its surface covered by liquid water or ice. Wilderness refueling will be difficult. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are Hell Worlds or Poor Worlds depending on their atmosphere.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

Atina lies on the Delphi Main, an important trade route straddling the border between Massilia Sector and Delphi Sector.

World Starport (St)

Atina has a Class B Starport, a good quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Population (P)

Atina has a population of 900,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Technology Level (T)

Atina possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land & Water: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Government (G)

Atina is governed by a Charismatic Dictatorship. Charismatic governments justify their ability to rule by simply asserting their right to rule. Charismatic dictatorships are typically young governments, coming as a recent change, and rely on the leader(s) to supply head of government.

World Law (L)

Atina has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All blade weapons and firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Atina, 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 fiefdom 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 fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.

Trade Data

• Importance: 2 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: C (very abundant)
• Labor: 7 (tens of millions)
• Infrastructure: B (very extensive)
• Efficiency: +2 (good)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 8 (discordant)
• Acceptance: A (very friendly)
• Strangeness: 5 (distinct)
• Symbols: A (abstract)

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• circa -250,000: the Ancients are active within the sector.
• circa -9,000: the Geonee encounter the Vilani.
• -5400 to -4015: the Vilani Consolidation Wars.
• -4045 to -2204: the region is part of the Ziru Sirka.
• -2204 to -1776: the region becomes part of the Rule of Man.
• -1776 to 0: the Long Night.
• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This article is missing content for one or more detailed sections. Additional details are required to complete the article. You can help the Traveller Wiki by expanding it.

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.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), page 22. (world location and some additional system data)
• John Harshman, Marc Miller. Solomani (Game Designers Workshop, 1986), pages 5, 7, 20. (sector background and history)
• Gary L. Thomas. The Travellers' Digest 11 (Digest Group Publications, 1989), pages 6-25. (sector background and history, plus details for the Geonee)
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), page 11. (dot map provided, locating the world)
• Joe Fugate. Knightfall (Game Designers Workshop, 1990), pages 74-80. (sector data including the world, sector background and history)
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), pages 4, 38-41, 102-109. (sector data including the world circa The Year 0)
• David L. Pulver. Solomani (Mongoose Publishing, 2012), pages 57, 59. (sector background and history)

.