Shadowsand (world)

Shadowsand/Inverness (Far Frontiers 2526)
Classic Era (1116)	C000419-B Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 0 Asteroid/Planetoid Belt Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (50 thousand) Government 1 Company/Corporation Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	Black Hole
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	0

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Shadowsand is a ring of many small worldlets (planetoids AKA an "asteroid belt"), not capable of retaining an atmosphere or water, and nonindustrial in nature.

• These worldlets warrant 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.
• The worldlets require extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Inverness Subsector of Far Frontiers Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

A world in Far Frontiers Sector.

• It lies just outside the Protectorate.

Point of Interest: Shadowsand Black Hole

This world contains a black hole instead of a primary star.

• The astrophysical properties of a world in a stable orbit around a black hole are not well understood.
• Some even conjecture that this world's orbit is not stable in the long-term...

History & Background (Dossier)

An airless set of planetesimals captured within a ring of radius 500,000,000 km around a collapsed supernova black hole.

• Because of the enormous energies released by the nova, Shadowsand has been mined heavily in the last fifteen years since the discovery there of eka-metals, super-heavymetals with very unusual and unique properties.
• In 1094, the Chalq Dhamon rebels commandeered mining operations there considered vital to the success of Genem Inc.'s freepoint armor projects for fourteen months before being destroyed by several contingents of Protectorate Marines.

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 FASA:Rescue On Galatea by Author & Contributor: Mark Lawrence
• Periodical: Traveller Chronicle 8
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science