Kwan (world)
| Kwan/Theta Aurigae (Aldebaran 1431) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | A786231–8
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary | K5 V M4 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kwan 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 is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
- It is a member of the Solomani Confederation in the Theta Aurigae Subsector of Aldebaran Sector.
Description / Astrography & Planetology
No information yet available.
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Type | Category | Mass (Sol) | Temperature (K) | Luminosity | |
| K5 V | Main Sequence (Dwarf) | 0.7 | 4300 - 4440 | 0.28697 | ||
| Unit | Diameter | Safe Distance | Habitable Zone | Jump Shadow | M-Drive Limit | |
| AU | 0.0065 | 0.0444 | 0.56 - 1.01 | 0.65 | 6.5 | |
| Orbit # | * | * | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
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Type | Category | Mass (Sol) | Temperature (K) | Luminosity | |
| M4 V | Main Sequence (Dwarf) | 0.23 | 3110 - 3210 | 0.00584 | ||
| Unit | Diameter | Safe Distance | Habitable Zone | Jump Shadow | M-Drive Limit | |
| AU | 0.0025 | 0.0063 | 0.08 - 0.16 | 0.25 | 2.5 | |
| Orbit # | * | * | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Remarks | ||||||
System Data
1 Gas Giants — 1 Planetoid Belts — 5 Other Worlds
Mainworld Data
Kwan is a standard-sized world with a dense nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere and an abundant hydrosphere.
Mainworld Geography & Topography
No information yet available.
Mainworld Map
No information yet available.
Native Lifeforms
Kwan has a wide variety of both local flora and fauna.
History & Background / Dossier
No information yet available.
World Starport
Kwan has a Class A Starport, an excellent 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 other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.
World Technology Level
Kwan possesses a Technology Level of TL–8.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics, improved telephones, and satellite communication and data networks.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Improved geothermal and improved batteries.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Advanced automobiles.
- Water: Triphibians and early artificial gills.
- Air: Improved helicopters and hypersonic jets.
- Space: Space shuttles, early space stations, and improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
World Government
Kwan is governed by Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy. A single family or small group provides the leadership and important positions within the government. These positions are inherited by members of the group or by their relatives. The organization may be a monarchy, with titles passed to family members, or a plutocracy where inheritance of the family fortune includes government position. Alternatively, the organization may be a more typical government apparatus, only with positions of power inherited.
World Law Level
Kwan has a low law level. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate. Body pistols, explosives, and poison gas are typically regulated or prohibited.
World Military
No information yet available.
World Economy
No information yet available.
Trade Data
No information yet available.
World Demographics
Population: 600
Humaniti 100%
World Culture
Solomani starship culture.
World Language/s
Anglic, Quesadan Spanish
Urbanization
Primary urban environment is the converted remains of a large, gravity-stranded starship.
Historical Data
Kwan was originally discovered and surveyed by Cpt. Jon Smið of the Waiferar (J4, over 4000t). As was his wont, Captain Smið insisted on naming the planet but held off on the decision, saying he would do it when he arrived with colonists. Unfortunately, the Captain was highly inebriated when he transmitted his survey and instead sent the data for an unknown barren system, which was then logged as official data. Thinking no more of it, he spend years creating a colony mission, but only recruited around 1000 individuals due to conflicting official data.
The final leg of the journey was from Victori, and Captain decided to follow the example of his friend, Capitain Antoine de Bougainville of the Colony ship Voyageur (Ivraie), and got quite drunk before entering the final astrogational jump values. The jump was a miracle; the Waiferar arrived exactly at the target planet. To be clear, the ship dropped out of jump space at the edge of the atmospheric blanket, at speed.
Between the captain's quick reflexes and the automated systems, the ship managed to pull up from a dive in a 10g turn. The ship then skipped across the waves and ramped off the beach into the coastal forest beyond, coming to rest between 2 hills with its nose on a third. The turn and soft ocean impact event itself probably killed over a hundred, and many were injured by the final impact on land, including the Captain.
The first mate found the Captain at the forward area of the bridge, where he had been thrown. The Captain was obviously injured badly, but the mate, still stunned, asked inanely,
World Timeline
No information yet available.
UWP Listing
A 7 8 6 2 3 1 – 8
References & Contributors / Sources
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- Classic Traveller Alien Module 6: Solomani (named but no further data)
- MegaTraveller Solomani & Aslan (dot map provided)
- Mongoose Traveller: Solomani
- External Link: CORE Data Site
- External Link: Federation Development Agency
- External Link: Zho Berka's Maps
- Author & Contributor: Garnfellow
- Author & Contributor: Dochsavage
- Author & Contributor: Leroy W.L. Guatney of the Federation Development Agency (FDA)
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com