Scapa (world)

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Scapa/Nightrim (Reaver's Deep 2515)
Classic Era (1116)
B667784-A
StarportB Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g)
Atmosphere6 Standard
Hydrographics7 Wet World 70%
Population7 Moderate (70 million)
Government8 Civil Service Bureaucracy
Law4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons)
Tech LevelA Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary G6 V M2 V
Planetoid Belts 3
Gas Giants 0

Scapa is a rich, agricultural garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This system is part of the Gerim Trace.

Scapa has two stars in the star system.
Scapa
Solitary G Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
G6 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.97 5550 - 5600 0.89888
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0088 0.0786 0.91 - 1.61 0.88 8.8
Orbit #  *  * 3 3 7
Remarks
Scapa
Solitary M Type.jpg 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

History & Background (Dossier)

Scapa has become rich exporting foodstuffs to the nearby naval bases on Kaagin, St George and Shetland.

  • The civil service government is geared towards continuing these food exports.
  • The population of Scapa, as well as nearby Shetland, Kaagin, Sheffield and Gerim all trace back to one of the more successful Reaver Warlords.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Scapa, 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 fiefdoms of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

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