Plunge (world)

Plunge/The Narrows (Corridor 2505)
Milieu 0	C540588-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 5 Moderate (300 thousand) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
Classic Era (1116)	B5409CC-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 9 High (8 billion) Government C Charismatic Oligarchy Law C Extreme Law (no privacy) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G7 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	4

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Plunge is a poor, industrial, high-population desert hellworld, with a billion or more sophonts struggling to survive in a inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants.
• This world has no free-standing water.
• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the The Narrows Subsector of Corridor Sector in the Domain of Vland.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• It also has an Imperial Scout base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.
• This world has a colonies at:
• Aking (world)
• Jed (world)

Description (Planetology)

The name Plunge was given not in honor of this world's oceans (it has none), but because it stands at the head of the great Ushamla Main that spreads commerce coreward of the Great Rift.

History & Background (Dossier)

Many of the planet's eight billion people live in tunnels hollowed into the planet's crust.

• Trade has brought great wealth to Plunge, and the businessman are the leaders of the government.
• Their powers are dictatorial, but they have the respect of their underlings.

Local Nobility

Plunge, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of three members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial minor duke.

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.

• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 3
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Journal 2 in Article: 'Snapshots of the Occupation'
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
• Second Survey