Querion (world)

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Querion/Querion (Spinward Marches 0614)
Classic Era (1116)	B554788-9 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 7 Moderate (80 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G6 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Querion is an agricultural world.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• It is a member of the Zhodani Consulate in the Province of Iadr Nsobl, in the Querion Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

• This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This world has a Zhodani Base, capable of handling warships.
• It is the home system of a Jovianoid species called the Sheol, who inhabit one of the system's gas giants.
• In the Zhodani Consulate this world is known as Shiadlia.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stars

Querion has a solitary primary star.

• It is a yellow main sequence.

Querion has a solitary primary star.

Querion
	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		None

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x8 secondary rocky worlds.
  • One of these is called Erioque.
• x4 gas giants.
  • One is called Sheol.

Mainworld Data

It is protected by a military base that takes up all of Querion’s sister planet, Erioque.

Mainworld Size (S)

Querion is a Meso World between 7,200km and 8,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.4G and 0.57G. The horizon will appear about 4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Querion has a pressure of 0.43 to 0.70 atmospheres. The Thin Atmosphere does not require survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Querion has 35-45% of its surface covered by liquid water. There will be a number of small seas or one larger body of water. Wilderness refueling is possible.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

Native Lifeforms

One of the gas giants in the system is named Sheol and is the homeworld of the minor alien race also known as the Sheol.

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IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

0614 Querion (Zhodani Subsector Capital)

Starport: Class IV.

Diameter: 2,113 miles (3,400 km).
Atmosphere: Thin oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 40%.
Climate: 40.
Population: 82.362 million.
Government: Civil service bureaucracy divided into 16 Bureaus, or councils.
Control Level: 4.
Tech Level: 9.
World Trade Number: 4.5.

History & Background (Dossier)

Querion serves as the Zhodani capital of the subsector.

Querion’s main industry is the bureaucracy of the subsector, with a large number of ambassadors based here before going to the various neutral worlds. Imperial agencies claim that the Tavrchedl' (Thought Police) keep a large contingent of agents here.

Sheol

Commercial ships normally refueled at the system's larger gas giant, so Sheol was rarely visited. For centuries, those rare starship crews who had been there relayed stories of strange, vast creatures sighted within the atmosphere. While gas giant atmosphere-dwellers had been previously observed elsewhere in the Spinward Marches, e.g. at Komesh in the Boughene system, and at least one starfaring gas giant race existed (the Jgd-il-Jagd), no-one expected to find a civilization on Sheol.

Sheol has an estimated population of 10 billion "messengers" and several hundred million "squid mothers", though exact figures for both Sheol races are uncertain.

During the Fourth Frontier War, the Imperial Navy frontier cruiser Haunting Thunder was lost while attempting refuel at Sheol. Three vacc-suited Human crewmen were recovered by the natives, and first contact was made.

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 6-7.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP)
• Dave Nilsen. "Traveller News Service." Survival Margin (1993): 92.
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 40. (UWP)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 44.
• David L. Pulver. Alien Races 1 (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 122-133.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 99. (UWP)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 56-60. (UWP)