Protalus (Co 0128) (world)

Protalus/Bunkeria (Core 0128)
Classic Era (1116)	B559563-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 9 Wet World 90% Population 5 Moderate (100 thousand) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K0 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	3

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Protalus 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.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Bunkeria Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• During the Long Night this world was named Sheki.
• This world was colonized by and is controlled from Irlu.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Protalus has a solitary primary star.

Protalus
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.88	5170 - 5270	0.63928
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0076	0.0663	0.78 - 1.4	0.76	7.6
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks

History

Protalus was the home world and powerbase of Baron Rolf von Toerbach, the famous rebel leader of the Interstellar Confederacy Civil War.

Today Protalus is a vassal state to Irlu (Core 0428), three parsecs away.

Protalus is rarely visited and is considered by many to be an unimportant backwater.

World Starport (St)

Protalus has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

References

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.

• Periodical: Classic Traveller Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 9
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
• Christopher Griffen. The Third Imperium (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), passim.