Fornice (world)

Fornice/Mora (Spinward Marches 3025) Milieu 1116 A554A87-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population A High (20 billion) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M0 V
Worlds	13
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	AD5C
Army Size (BEs)	120000
Economic Details
Technology Level	12
Economic Extension	E9E+3 Resources E Extremely abundant Labor 9 High (2 billion) Infrastructure E Comprehensive Efficiency +3 Improved
Importance Extension	3
Resource Units	5,292
GWP (BCr)	117,200
World Trade Number	6
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	680,057
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	7
Building Capacity (Tons)	22,000,000
Port employees	128,325
Port passengers (annual)	277,600

Fornice is a high-population world with a billion or more sophonts in population size. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Mora Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Fornice, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdom of a count. Both are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• Fornice is a member of the Spinward Main.
• It lies on the Mora Arm.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stars

Fornice has a solitary primary star.

• It is a red main sequence.

Fornice has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0055	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.55	5.5
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	6
	Remarks		None

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x10 secondary rocky worlds.
• x2 gas giants.

Mainworld Data

Fornice is a major trade port renowned for its starship overhaul facilities.

Mainworld Size (S)

Fornice 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)

Fornice 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)

Fornice 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.)

History & Background (Dossier)

This world is known to have received K'kree trade delegations in the past. K'kree visio-olfactoral art has also been known to have been traded on this world.

The Fornice military currently has control of the starport on Palique and is in the process of rebuilding the government.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Fornice, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdom of a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversees affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.

Trade Data

• Importance: 3 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: E (extremely abundant)
• Labor: 9 (billions)
• Infrastructure: E (comprehensive)
• Efficiency: +3 (improved)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: A (discordant)
• Acceptance: D (very xenophilic)
• Strangeness: 5 (distinct)
• Symbols: C (very abstract)

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 589-604: First Frontier War.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 615-620: Second Frontier War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 979-986: Third Frontier War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
• 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
• 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.

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IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

3025 Fornice (Imperial)

Starport: Class V.

Diameter: 3,045 miles (4,900 km).
Atmosphere: Thin oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 42%.
Climate: Warm.
Population: 20 billion.
Government: Bureaucracy.
Control Level: 5.
Tech Level: 10.
World Trade Number: 6.0.

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), 32-33.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Loren Wiseman. "Work of Art." Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 11 (1982): 33-34.
• Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Tarsus (Game Designers Workshop, 1983), 14.
• 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), 46-47. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 114.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 114. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 103-107. (UWP only)