Asti (world)
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| Asti/Zowie (Zowie 2911) | |
| See also | UWP |
| System Details | |
| Primary | M0 V |
| Planetoid Belts | |
| Gas Giants | |
Asti is a nonindustrial world, that requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
- In a technological universe, societies without industrial capability generally suffer as nearly all manufactured and high tech goods must be brought in at significant cost.
- As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
- This world is part of the Aslan Hierate, as a world where multiple clans have split control of the planet, in the Zowie Subsector of Zowie Sector.
Description / Astrography & Planetology
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Asti has a solitary primary star. Asti 
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity M0 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.57 3770 - 3850 0.13982 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0055 0.031 0.39 - 0.74 0.55 5.5 Orbit # * * 2 1 6 Remarks
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Mainworld Data
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Mainworld Geography & Topography
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Native Lifeforms
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History & Background / Dossier
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World Starport
Asti has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.
World Technology Level
Asti possesses a Technology Level of TL–0.
- These worlds often contain a Proto-Sophont species beginning to establish a nascent civilization and society.
- This world is in its Alpha Period and has not yet been interfered with by a higher technology civilization.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Bodily communicative apparati, courier-runners, and smoke signals.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Bodily muscle.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Bodily locomotion, riding beasts, and litters or sedan chairs.
- Water: Swimming, rafts, and canoes.
- Air: Typically not available unless a bodily ability.
World Government
Asti 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.
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World Military
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World Economy
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Asti's main world (the seventh planet in the system) is a small wet and lightly populated world with an orange atmosphere. The population occupies itself with non-industrial activities associated with planetary rotation cycles or 'rituals' that extend for many concentric cycles; the larger of which extend beyond the life spans of citizens and even the balkanized states that organize the planet. Though low by Imperium standards, the Asti'A, as they call themselves, make the most of their technology. A digital intelligence fabric regulates monetary and information exchange in a manner that optimizes the output and well being of the mostly satisfied citizens.
Spending time with their clan and prides, the Aslan are fairly peaceful due to a system interwoven in the ritual dynamics which allocates land in a manner that is both reflective of what is considered a just distribution and a relatively limited land mass on which to live on the surface. In fact, one of the most noteworthy features of Asti's main world is the uncanny situation where many clans dwell on large scale water vessels akin to cities sailing the planet. Aslan from Asti are marked by their rather unusual affinity and comfort with water. Asti was the subject of a study conducted by the Imperial College of the Aston sector. In it, a leading Astrobiophysican uses Asti as a prime example of the intimate relationship between planetary mineral composition and the emergence of culture. The central thesis is that Asti's main planet's preponderance of iron oxides and water combined to essentially leave the resident colonizing species with no choice but to create vast large iron barge like cities with platforms supplying grazing ground for species of stock animals that thrived on biomorphic algae that thrive in the tainted atmosphere.
The Travellers' Aid Society rates the planet aloof but tolerant to visitors. Travellers' logs advise visitors to the planet to expend extra efforts not to interrupt the dances and ritualistic harmonic creations orchestrated on a daily basis on a massive scale. The sound is said to be 'beautiful' and 'indescribable' or 'like drinking light beams through your ears" in various traveler submissions to the central log. The Skinsbrow Inn and Bar is said to be a good place to secure trade in the starport. There is also rumored to be a drink that can have profound psionic effects on non-Aslan visitors but it does not appear to have that effect on the Aslan themselves. A botanist from the Imperial University of Eifau is currently investigating the properties of this beverage drawn from the pollen of a rare luminescent biomorphic state of an unusually colored sub-species of the Asti'A's algae harvest.
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com