Luspoe (world)

Luspoe/Marnoen (Extolian 1406)
Classic Era (1116)	A471404-F Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 4 Moderate (30 thousand) Government 0 No Government structure Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level F High Stellar (anagathics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F8 V K3 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Luspoe is a nonindustrial hellworld with a population struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often develop intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
• It is a member of the Hive Federation in the Marnoen Subsector of Extolian Sector.

• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.

History & Background (Dossier)

World Starport (Sp)

Luspoe 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.

• A small, unobtrusive security force is drawn from the most suitable members of the local militia and stiffened with navy regulars.
• The density of ancillary buildings around the downport means that it is not a good place to build Hiver nests; settlement near a Hive Federation port favours a world's non-Hivers. These communities are difficult to build into predictable social models.
• Ships are subject to mandatory anti-larval fumigation before leaving, to kill any infant Hivers that might have gotten aboard. Hivers are distressed by the notion that a larva might find itself achieving sapience in an environment absent adult Hivers and suitable nests.

World Population (P)

Luspoe has a population of 30,000 sophonts (tens of thousands).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.

World Demographics

• Hiver, population 95%
• Other, population 5%

World Languages

• Hiver Sign Language
• Gurvin
  • Non-Hiver locals will typically speak Gurvin augmented with a pidgin of local languages and Ithkluri, to provide ambiguity and metaphor lacking from the standard Gurvin vocabulary.

Urbanization

Hivers are fond of rounded shapes, domes, spheres and non-Euclidian architecture. This is ironic in that many schools of Hiver starship construction are focused around the opposite -- extremely square, boxy ships.

• Hivers like small, cramped domiciles with defined spaces and solid walls. Much of a Hiver nest is subterranean.
• Pet Snohl may be found in the deeper nests.

World Government (G)

Luspoe has no central government or substantial government apparatus; an Anarchy. The largest governmental structure would be a family, tribe, or single clan. The largest group will be between 50 and 100 individuals, and there may be dozens to hundreds of them. This governmental structure can be stable over long periods of time if the population remains small or geographically separated.

World Military

As a member of the Hive Federation, this world can call upon Ithklur warriors as well as its own defence forces.

World Economy

The Hive Federation currency (or closest equivalent) is the Biyzihn.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

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.

• Classic Traveller Alien Module 7: Hiver (sector named but no further data)
• Classic Traveller Alien Module 2: K'kree (sector named but no further data)
• GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 3 (sector named but no further data)
• External Link: Federation Development Agency (sector development)
• Author & Contributor: Leroy W.L. Guatney of the Federation Development Agency