Daridura (world)

Daridura/Old Suns (Dagudashaag 1605) Milieu 1116 C550688-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 6 Moderate (3 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G1 V M5 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	6458
Army Size (BEs)	20
Economic Details
Technology Level	8
Economic Extension	D52-2 Resources D Very abundant Labor 5 Moderate (300 thousand) Infrastructure 2 Extremely limited Efficiency -2 Fair
Importance Extension	-2
Resource Units	104
GWP (BCr)	3
World Trade Number	3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	675
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	3
Building Capacity (Tons)	3,300
Port employees	50
Port passengers (annual)	0

Daridura has both an unbreathable 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 Old Suns Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Daridura, 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. During the Long Night this world was named Imar.

Astrography and planetology

Daridura is primarily famous for its unusual cave formations and unusual underground flora and fauna which mimics the yellow and amber colours of the rock formations. All blend more or less into the surrounding environment making it difficult to distinguish except by movement.

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Daridura has two stars in the star system.

Daridura
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.03	5770 - 5860	1.109
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0099	0.0873	1 - 1.75	0.99	9.9
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
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History and background

Originally a small Vilani colony during the First Imperium, it was settled by Dhuna fundamentalists who fled there to avoid persecution.

During the Rule of Man, many settlers, afraid of the assassin-priests, left to colonize Edaridur (Dagudashaag 1503). While the difference between the names Daridura <New Desert Nome> and Edaridur <Not Desert Home> were obvious to Vilani, the subtleties of Vilani grammar and pronunciation were utterly lost on the Terrans who accidentally renamed both worlds Dardua.

When the IISS first surveyed the area they used the old Second Imperium navigational information as a basis and perpetuated the error. Despite the identical spelling each name is pronounced differently and thus both names have stuck.

Aspects of the Cult of Dhuna are still believed to be worshiped deep within secret caverns despite the almost universal loathing that Imperial citizens have for it. A small deployment of Imperial Marines have been stationed on Daridura since 211 with orders to destroy any Dhuna cult members on sight.

Era: Milieu 0

Member of Kimalad Empire a psioniophobic pocket empire centered on Kimalad (Dagudashaag 1506).

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.

• Citation Missing - Signal-GK 4 via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 79.
• Stuart L. Dollar, Joseph E. Walsh. Psionic Institutes (Imperium Games, 1997), 8.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 69.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science