Rotek (world)

Rotek/Khipge (Zarushagar 1119)
Classic Era (1116)	D6118CF-7 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 8 Moderate (200 million) Government C Charismatic Oligarchy Law F Extreme Law (rigid control) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F7 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Rotek (World) Synopsis

Rotek is a non-agricultural, preindustrial, and pre-high icy world with over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts in population.

• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Khipge Subsector of Zarushagar Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.
• This world contains a Scout Base associated with it.
• Its surface is ice-capped with little or no atmosphere and nearly all of its water frozen.
• It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• It is a world working toward being an industrial powerhouse but lacks an adequate workforce to do so.

Description

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GURPS World Paragraph

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History & Background (Dossier)

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Imperial Landed Nobility

Rotek, 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 fiefdoms of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee 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 marquis.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.

Trade Data

• Importance: -2 (very unimportant)

World Economy

• Resources: A (descriptor)
• Labor: 7 (descriptor)
• Infrastructure: 6 (descriptor)
• Efficiency: +3 (descriptor)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: D (fragmented)
• Acceptance: 6 (aloof)
• Strangeness: A (incomprehensible)
• Symbols: C (very 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.
• -9235: the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
• -5400 to -4015: the Vilani Consolidation Wars.
• -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka claims and settles worlds across the region.
• -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars.
• -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
• -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.
• 800-820: the Psionics Suppressions.
• 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)

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• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), page 21. (charts locating the world)
• Joe Fugate, Gary L. Thomas. Referee's Gaming Kit (Digest Group Publications, 1989), MegaTraveller Folio Adventure 2, Outpost Alpha (Part 2). (UWP data and background for the subsector)
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), pages 11, 48, 49. (dot maps and charts locating the world)
• Gary L. Thomas. The Travellers' Digest 21 (Digest Group Publications, 1990), page 17. (background for the sector)
• Loren Wiseman. Challenge 75 (Game Designers Workshop, 1994), pages 6, 68. (background for the sector)
• Martin Dougherty. Bearers of the Flame (Avenger Enterprises, 2006), page 87. (the sector around the year 1248, including the world)
• Author & Contributor: Greg Videll of the HIWG (refinement of sector data)
• Author & Contributor: Martin J. Dougherty (development of sector data)