Gashikan (world)

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Gashikan/Gashilean (Gashikan 2732)
Classic Era (1116)
A8679AD-C
StarportA Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere6 Standard
Hydrographics7 Wet World 70%
Population9 High (9 billion)
GovernmentA Charismatic Dictator
LawD Extreme Law (paramilitary law)
Tech LevelC Average Stellar (robots)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary G2 V M5 V
Planetoid Belts 1
Gas Giants 3

Gashikan is a high-population garden world with a billion or more sophonts in population size and a near-ideal utopian environment conducive to most sophonts.

  • This world-system has a Naval Base, usually associated with military starships, which may be located on or off-world.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Gashikan has a single supercontinent.

Locations:

  • Khasla: The capital city
  • Nitholis: A city destroyed in the Sack of Gashikan, ruins long maintained as a monument

Binary Solar System

Gashikan Binary Star System
Gashikan
Solitary G Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
G2 V Main Sequence 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
Remarks
Gashikan
Solitary M Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
M4 V Main Sequence 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

Native Sophont: Yileans

  • Gashikan is the home world to a minor race of Humaniti called the Yileans. They are a distinct subspecies of Homo sapiens, though now highly diluted by long intermixing with Vilani migrants during the first and second Imperiums.

History & Background

This T-Prime/Garden world has been home to a series of genocidal human empires. This world is historically important and has a high population, excellent starport facilities and shipyards. The law level is extremely restrictive, although trade continues to thrive.

  • It has been the site of long standing warfare between humans and Vargr. The planet was subject to nuclear attack in -1658, and is still subject to Urzaeng raiding.
  • The site of an extensive Naval Base for centuries. While the importance of the base has varied considerably over time, it currently ranks highly in the Empire's Navy for importance and honor among the personnel. While most spacers prefer to serve aboard ships, none will turn down a posting to Gashikan System Command.
  • Today, in the Third Empire of Gashikan, Vargr slavery is still common, especially in the coreward areas and in most of Trenchans sector. On Gashikan itself, Vargr are subject to immediate and summary execution; elsewhere in the rimward sections of the sector, Vargr segregation, serfdom, and peonage are more common than outright Vargr slavery, although the latter is far from unknown.

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