Mershemu (world)

Mershemu/Laraa (Dagudashaag 3231) Milieu 1116 D580411-7 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (90 thousand) Government 1 Company/Corporation Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G2 V
Worlds	12
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Company or Corporation
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	1113
Army Size (BEs)	1
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	631-5 Resources 6 Few Labor 3 Low (9 thousand) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	9
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-D
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Mershemu is a desert world with no free-standing water. 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 Laraa Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Mershemu, 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 Nanis Aar.

Astrography and planetology

Mershemu is a member of the Sylean Main.

Mershemu has a solitary primary star.

Mershemu Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1	5720 - 5770	1
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0094	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.94	9.4
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
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Native Lifeforms

Mershemu never developed lifeforms though it does have a wide variety of native mosses and lichen, which both replenish the atmosphere and provide a usable food source.

History and background

This inhospitable dry world is home to a few tribes descended from Terra (Solomani Rim 1827) sub-Saharan nomads, who travel between the few isolated oases that dot the southern sub-arctic zone.

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 8 via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 86.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 241.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science