Calamain (world)

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Calamain/Taemerlyk (Far Frontiers 2424)
Classic Era (1116)	A000461-B Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 0 Asteroid/Planetoid Belt Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (20 thousand) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	1

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Calamain is a ring of many small worldlets (planetoids AKA an "asteroid belt"), not capable of retaining an atmosphere or water, and nonindustrial in nature.

• These worldlets warrant hazardous environment precautions.
• Life in a vacuum requires great discipline. After all, it only takes one forgotten seal on a vacuum suit to spell death. Those who survive tend to be very methodically-minded and attentive to small detail.
• The worldlets require extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• It is a member of The Protectorate in the Taemerlyk Subsector of Far Frontiers Sector.

• This world toils under the control of a military government with conditions reflecting that situation, including curtailed civil rights and limited freedoms.
• This dangerous world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it dangerous to visitors.
• This world-system has a Naval Base, usually associated with military starships, which may be located on or off-world.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Calamain has a solitary primary star.

• It is a red main sequence.

Calamain has a solitary primary star.

Calamain
	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		None

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld.
• x5 secondary rocky worlds.
• x1 planetoid belt.
• x1 gas giant.

Mainworld Data

Calamain is an Asteroid Belt mainworld.

Mainworld Size (S)

Calamain is an Asteroid Belt consisting of a few very large objects with diameters of hundreds of kilometers, thousands of bodies of a few kilometers in diameter, and millions of smaller objects.

• Asteroid Belt is the belt when it is the mainworld of a system.
• Planetoid Belt refers to any non-mainworld belt within a system.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

None of the bodies within the Calamain belt retain an atmosphere.

• The belt is in vacuum conditions, requiring the use of a Vacc Suit.
• TL–8 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

The Calamain belt contains a few icy bodies. A few belt objects have frozen volatiles on their surfaces.

• Wilderness refueling is possible within the belt, provided a suitable icy object can be found.
• Water for the inhabitants is generally imported and is extensively recycled.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

A simple overview of the Calamain belt.

(Placeholder chart, asteroid belt.)

History & Background (Dossier)

Calamain is a Danger World and is designated as an Amber Zone. It presents particular risks and dangers due to the environment or native life forms, laws or customs, or other conditions that are not well understood.

• Visitors are advised to act with caution.

The Protectorate Naval Administration is based at Calamain. It operates as a local peace-keeping force in times of calm, but when activated to full alert status it serves as the central cadre for the combined Protectorate Planetary Navies.

World Starport (St)

Calamain

• The world is host to a Naval Base.

World Population (P)

Calamain has a population of 20,000 sophonts (tens of thousands).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
• The population has Zhodani, Imperial, and Vlazhdumecta heritage.
• Many families can trace their ancestry to pre-Long Night Vilani colonists.

Linguistic Topography

• Local languages descended from Vlazhdumecta.
• Riftian Anglic, a dialect of one of the two principal languages of the Imperium.
• Zdetl, the language of the Zhodani and the Zhodani Consulate.

World Technology Level (T)

Calamain

World Government (G)

Calamain

Calamain is under military control.

World Law (L)

Calamain

Trade Data

• Importance: 2 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: 8 (moderate)
• Labor: 3 (thousands)
• Infrastructure: 4 (very limited)
• Efficiency: -3 (poor)

World Culture

The world lies within the Zhodani Shadow, a region strongly influenced by the society and culture of the Zhodani Consulate.

• Heterogenity: 1 (monolithic)
• Acceptance: 5 (very aloof)
• Strangeness: 1 (very typical)
• Symbols: 7 (somewhat concrete)

World Timeline

• 300-420: the First Survey charts the system.
• 995-1065: the Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Classic Traveller Alien Module 4: Zhodani (named but no further data)
• Periodical: Ares Magazine (Special #2)
• Periodical: Traveller: The New Era Traveller Chronicle (Issues 2 to 8: Data published)
• Periodical: Far Traveller issue #3
• External Link: Afachtiabr by Author & Contributor: James Kundert - HIWG
• External Link: RPG Geek
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science