Ikkimam (world)

Ikkimam/Gimushi (Empty Quarter 1037) Milieu 1116 B632543-9 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 3 Vacuum (very thin) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 5 Moderate (800 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	F8 V
Worlds	12
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	2526
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	9
Economic Extension	744-3 Resources 7 Few Labor 4 Moderate (80 thousand) Infrastructure 4 Very limited Efficiency -3 Poor
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	0
GWP (BCr)	78
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	1,430
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	405
Port passengers (annual)	5,000

Ikkimam has both an unbreathably thin atmosphere and a lack of surface water making habitation by sophonts difficult. The system has a population between 10,000 and 10 million, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Gimushi Subsector of Empty Quarter Sector and in the Domain of Antares. Ikkimam, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world.

Astrography and Planetology

Part of the Sashar-Pamushgar Cluster.

Ikkimam has a solitary primary star.

Ikkimam
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F8 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.18	6050 - 6180	1.78479
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0114	0.1108	1.24 - 2.17	1.14	11.4
	Orbit #	*	0	4	3	7
	Remarks

History and Background

About -4500 Imperial, during the First Imperium, something really bad happened in Ikkimam system. Several Imperial scout expeditions have been sent to the system to determine the cause: the leading explanation is that a gas giant exploded. (But First Imperium records disagree, with no gas giants noted by the careful Vilani surveyors.) While the Imperial Scouts have been withdrawn to support the war effort hundreds of parsecs rimward, privately- and planetary-government funded investigations continue.

So far no less than six colonies have tried to make a go of Ikkimam and not one has succeeded.

• While the atmosphere is too thin to breath it should be fine for growing crops, yet the crops mostly seem to fail.
• There are no minerals of appreciable value on the planet but it is a large planet with decent gravity and plenty of space.
• This was the line used by Lady Yolande Lans Crussk when she began to set up the latest colonial attempt on Ikkimam.
• She set up a first rate downport and offered people high incentives to come and settle the planet.
• However, the crops haven’t grown well and the colony is slowly starving.
• Crussk herself died in 899 but the 8 million colonists are still trying to keep the colony going.

UWP Listing

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

• T20 - 993 - Ikkimam 1037 B632643-9 Na Ni Po 800 Im
• 1105 - Ikkimam 1037 B632543-9 Ni Po 800 Im
• MT - 1125 - Ikkimam 1037 D632541-6 Ni Po 800 Ou - Outlands
• TNE - 1201 - Ikkimam 1037 X632000-0 Ba 000 --

References and Contributors

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), .
• Citation Missing - Alien - Vilani and Vargr - {dot map provided}
• Citation Missing - Stellar Reaches No. 1 -UWP Only
• Citation Missing - Stellar Reaches No. 5 - UWP Only
• Citation Missing - Stellar Reaches No. 17 - UWP Only
• Citation Missing - Stellar Reaches No. 18- Short write-up
• Citation Missing - Stellar Reaches No. 19 - UWP Only
• Citation Missing - Stellar Reaches No. 21
• World page generated by AB-101
• Data compiled by ’’MIMIC’’ - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication