Terra Nova (world)

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Terra Nova/Querion (Spinward Marches 0511)
Milieu 1116
C786342-9
StarportC Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g)
Atmosphere8 Dense
Hydrographics6 Wet World 60%
Population3 Low (8 thousand)
Government4 Representative Democracy
Law2 Low Law (no energy weapons)
Tech Level9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary K2 V
Worlds 8
Gas Giants 2
Planetoid Belts 1
Cultural Details
Government Representative democracy
Law Level Low
Cultural Extension 1215
Army Size (BEs) 0
Economic Details
Technology Level 9
Economic Extension
821-5
Resources8Moderate
Labor2Low (800)
Infrastructure1 Extremely limited
Efficiency-5Extremely poor
Importance Extension -1
Resource Units 8
GWP (BCr) 29
World Trade Number 3
Trade Volume (MCr/year) 0
Starport Details
Classification Class-C
Port Size 0
Building Capacity (Tons) 0
Port employees 0
Port passengers (annual) 0

Terra Nova is a garden world with a near-ideal environment conducive to most forms of life. The system supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. This world is a satellite of a gas giant or another planet in the system and is tide locked to the planet it orbits. It is a member of Zhodani Consulate in the Querion Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Province of Iadr Nsobl. In the Zhodani Consulate this world is known as Zhda.

Terra Nova is a member of the Spinward Main.

  • Terra Nova is a large moon tidally locked to its primary. The Consulate is slowly developing the promising twilight zones, being careful not to disturb the local ecology.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Terra Nova has a solitary primary star.

  • It is an orange main sequence.
Terra Nova has a solitary primary star.
Primary
Solitary K Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
K2 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.82 4830 - 5100 0.49928
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0073 0.0586 0.7 - 1.26 0.73 7.3
Orbit #  *  * 3 2 6
Remarks

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

0511 Terra Nova (Zhodani)

Starport: Class III.

Diameter: 6,899 miles (11,000 km).
Atmosphere: Dense oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 61%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 8,800.
Government: Representative democracy.
Control Level: 1.
Tech Level: 9.
World Trade Number: 3.0.

History & Background (Dossier)

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