Marathon (Da 1512) (world)

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Marathon/Outback (Daibei 1512)
Classic Era (1116)	EA5A89B-8 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics A Water World 100% Population 8 Moderate (800 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law B Extreme Law (control of movement) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V M9 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Marathon is an oceanic water world with a population of over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts.

• It is covered with very deep oceans of water with less than 1% of its land above sea level.
• The inhabitants of this world live on the roughly 1% of exposed land mass, in underwater colonies, on city ships, or similar arrangements.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Outback Subsector of Daibei Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.

Description (Planetology)

This world is part of the Shigakham Intersection.

Marathon (Da 1512) has two stars in the star system.

Marathon (Da 1512)
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0041	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.41	4.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks
Marathon (Da 1512)
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.079	2350 - 2380	0.00014
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0009	0.001	0.01 - 0.03	0.09	0.9
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	3
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

Marathon is a pre-high population oceanic water world with over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts in population size.

• It is covered with very deep oceans, of waterous (H₂O), and less than 1% of its land above sea level
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Outback Subsector of Daibei Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.

Local Nobility

Marathon (Da 1512), as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdom of a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversees affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 15 Article: "Daibei Sector: Library and Map" by Authors & Contributors: Nancy & Aleatha Parker (pgs 22-25)