Gungnir (world)

Gungnir/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 1221) Milieu 1116 B544779-8 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 7 Moderate (40 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G3 IV M4 V
Worlds	13
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	3
Cultural Details
Government	Balkanization
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	8869
Army Size (BEs)	20
Economic Details
Technology Level	8
Economic Extension	E69+2 Resources E Extremely abundant Labor 6 Moderate (4 million) Infrastructure 9 Extensive Efficiency +2 Good
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	1,512
GWP (BCr)	109
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	995
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	40,000
Port employees	7,195
Port passengers (annual)	14,500

Gungnir is an agricultural world with a tainted atmosphere but still a near-ideal environment for producing foodstuffs. The system supports a population of tens of millions of sophonts. It is a member of Sword Worlds Confederation in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Sword Worlds. This world hosts a Sword Worlds Military Base for support of military ground forces.

Astrography & Planetology

Gungnir is a member of the Spinward Main.

Gungnir is a small planet, and its surface is divided into correspondingly few continental plates. The largest one circles the equator of the planet like a girdle, and became “locked up” early on as small Gungnir cooled. This has prevented the oceanic plates at each pole from mixing.

Gungnir has two stars in the star system.

Gungnir
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G3 IV	Subgiant		1.9	4900 - 5800	5.54
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.02494	0.19523	1.87 - 3.05	2.494	24.94
	Orbit #	*	0	5	5	8
	Remarks
Gungnir
	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

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

1221 Gungnir (Sword Worlds)

Starport: Class IV - Military base.

Diameter: 3,943 miles (6,300 km).
Atmosphere: Thin oxygen-nitrogen tainted by airborne pollen.
Hydrographics: 40%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 47 million.
Government: Balkanized.
Control Level: 2.
Tech Level: 8.
World Trade Number: 4.

Mainworld Topography and Geography

Gungnir has a number of extremely tall mountains, of which the highest peak is 24,891 metres tall. This places the highest peaks well above the breathable air in an already thin atmosphere. No expedition has ever managed to climb to the top of any of Gungnir's 'High Sixteen' peaks. Expeditions try from time-to-time and reaching certain landmarks on one of High Sixteen can be considered an impressive achievement.

Native Lifeforms

For much of its existence Gungnir was ice-bound, with only primitive life. This developed separately around the two oceans, resulting in Gungnir having essentially two entirely different, incompatible biospheres. As its primary began to expand into a subgiant, Gungnir became warmer and life spread out. Once they met, conflict began. Species evolved in ways that made them toxic to the other biosphere, until balance was achieved.

Gungnir is considered "a biological minefield". Away from carefully tended inhabited regions it is the norm to use filter masks and travel in sealed vehicles.

History & Background (Dossier)

Gungnir has been described as "the Sword Worlds in microcosm." Gungnir is a fractious agricultural world populated by fiercely proud and independent cattle ranchers and grain farmers. The many feudal nobles of Gungnir skirmish among themselves and occasionally produce a would-be king.

Culture

For traders, the most sought-after and expensive Sword Worlder beers are Gungnir’s Lambic Reds, so named for their colour and unusual method of brewing. No yeast is involved -- natural airborne flora perform the fermentation. The variety of Gungnir’s beers is as diverse and unusual as the planet’s political situation, and some beers are only available in batches numbering in the hundreds of bottles.

Language

• Sagamaal

Trivia

Gungnir is the spear of the god Odin from Norse mythology. The name comes from Old Norse meaning "swaying one".

References & Contributors (Sources)

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 16-17.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 44-45. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 70.
• Paul Drye, Hans Rancke-Madsen, Robert Prior. Sword Worlds (Steve Jackson Games, 2004), 45-46.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 109. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 89-92,96-97. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. Sword Worlds (Mongoose Publishing, 2020), .