Minos (world)

Minos/Shinkan (Core 3008)
Classic Era (1116)	A4007B9-E Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 7 Moderate (40 million) Government B Non-Charismatic Dictator Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level E High Stellar (anti-grav cities)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G2 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Minos is a non-agricultural, pre-industrial vacuum world, which warrants hazardous environment precautions.

• Life in a vacuum requires great discipline. After all, it only takes one forgotten seal on a vacuum suit to spell death. Those who survive tend to be very methodically-minded and attentive to small detail.
• It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
• Its economy and population are slowly growing and living conditions are expected to improve in the near future barring outside forces.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Shinkan Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Minos has a solitary primary star.

Minos
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1	5720 - 5770	1
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0094	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.94	9.4
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
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History & Background (Dossier)

This is a major shipbuilding world.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Minos, 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 marquis.
• Knight of the Iridium Throne LiminalMask

World Starport (Sp)

Minos has a Class A Starport, an excellent 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 other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

• There is an associated Imperial Naval Base, hosting elements of the 76th Fleet.

World Population (P)

Minos has a population of 40,000,000 sophonts (tens of millions).

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

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

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.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 15.
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), .
• Christopher Griffen. The Third Imperium (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), .