Aska (world)
| Aska/Iiradu (Dagudashaag 3206) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Milieu 0 | D201766-6
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| Classic Era (1116) | C201752-8
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary | M3 V M7 V M1 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aska is a non-agricultural, preindustrial, icy vacuum world, warranting hazardous environment precautions.
- 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.
- It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Iiradu Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector in the Domain of Vland.
- During the Long Night this world was named Vlisis.
Description (Planetology)
The Aska mainworld is the only planetery body in this system.
- The twin stars of Stumifok and Bedic occupy the place of pride with three small gas giants orbiting them.
- The third star, Trehm, lies in orbit 14 and Aska orbits this third star.
Aska has three stars in the star system. Stumifok 
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity M3 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.37 3270 - 3430 0.03081 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0034 0.0146 0.18 - 0.35 0.34 3.4 Orbit # * * 0 1 5 Remarks Bedic
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity M7 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.09 2630 - 2680 0.00022 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0011 0.0012 0.02 - 0.03 0.11 1.1 Orbit # * * * 0 3 Remarks Trehm
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity M1 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.5 3620 - 3660 0.08839 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0047 0.0247 0.31 - 0.59 0.47 4.7 Orbit # * * 1 1 6 Remarks
History & Background (Dossier)
This vacuum, ice-capped world boasts a surprising population of over 60 million people who live in a number of large underground cities. Aska has to rely heavily on technology from other worlds, and regular shipments to keep the large scale life support system operational. There are daily shipments arriving from Daas, via a contract with Sharurshid.
Much of the population spend their time in sizable employment complexes that house, feed, entertain, and provide jobs for the populace. Space is at a premium in the cities, and as a result it is only the wealthy or criminals who live outside the employment communes. People who live outside the communes are forced to scratch a living as temporary laborers, take illegal work from local gang leaders, or work for the employment companies.
Life on Aska is complicated by the low level of self-control exercised by the population. Askans are very unstable, with severe mood swings and personality shifts begin commonplace.
The largest single employer is the law enforcement agency. The agency is constantly looking for the more stable individuals. Their duties are generally quite limited, involving policing residential areas to keep petty squabbles to a minimum.
References & Contributors (Sources)
- Jae Campbell - Traveller: The New Era Periodical: Signal-GK Issue #12 - HIWG
- T4 First Survey
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com