Argiluu (world)

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See also UWP

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Argiluu

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    Argiluu/Ushra (Dagudashaag 1317)
    Classic Era (1116)
    B68A997-C
    StarportB Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
    Size6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g)
    Atmosphere8 Dense
    HydrographicsA Water World 100%
    Population9 High (1 billion)
    Government9 Impersonal Bureaucracy
    Law7 Moderate Law (no firearms)
    Tech LevelC Average Stellar (robots)
    See also UWP
    System Details
    Primary M8 II
    Planetoid Belts 1
    Gas Giants 4

    The world of Argiluu is literally a "molten snowball": the crust, and much of the mantle of this formerly icy outer gas giant satellite, melted when its primary star evolved off the main sequence. Argiluu’s world-ocean is at least 60 kilometres deep, according to current estimates, its depths beyond the range of the most advanced densitometers. Terraforming has converted the original ammonia-water vapour atmosphere into a breathable nitrogen-oxygen mix.

    The world has no land-masses as such - major settlements are tunneled into huge naturally-occurring rafts of foamed carbonaceous material known as "tarballs". Valuable organic chemicals are extracted from the tar, and the seawater is also rich in dissolved minerals.

    Argiluu derives from the Old High Vilani for "no sound ocean" – the primitive sonar systems used in the earliest Vilani surveys produced no returns in many areas of the world-ocean.

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