Standard Atmosphere

A Standard Atmosphere is a type of atmosphere known for possessing a pressure, temperature, constituent gases, and other factors all within tolerable limits of sophonts that are conventional lifeforms

• Standard atmospheres are suited to Aslan, Droyne, Hivers, Humans, K'kree, and Vargr.
• The entire atmospheric designation system is sophonticentric to these Major Races.

Description (Specifications)

An atmosphere rated as Standard has a mean surface pressure ranging from 0.71 atm to 1.49 atm.

Surface Pressure & Water Properties

Surface Pressure & Water Properties

Surface pressure	Boiling point of water
0.7 atm	90°C
1.0 atm	100°C
1.5 atm	111°C

History & Background (Dossier)

On Earth, sophonts have little experience of differing atmospheric pressures, and so many underestimate how much of an impact this factor may have on everyday life. Terran inhabitants are actually living near the bottom of an ocean of air. At sea level, the weight of the air presses down on its inhabitants with a pressure of 1.0 kg per squared centimeter. At higher altitudes, less air means less weight and less pressure. The pressure and density of air decreases with increasing elevation.

Standard pressure is what a Terran at sea level regularly breaths. The IISS Atmosphere Core Manual tells us that a Standard Atmosphere has a pressure between 0.71 and 1.49 times that of Earth. Things change at lower pressures and those sophonts who live or work in mountainous regions can attest to those changes.

References & contributors (Sources)

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.

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science