Gashikan (world)

Gashikan/Gashilean (Gashikan 2732)
Classic Era (1116)	A8679AD-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 9 High (9 billion) Government A Charismatic Dictator Law D Extreme Law (paramilitary law) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G2 V M5 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	3

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Gashikan is a high-population garden world with a billion or more sophonts in population size and a near-ideal utopian environment conducive to most sophonts.

• Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Third Empire of Gashikan in the Gashilean Subsector of Gashikan Sector.

• This world-system has a Naval Base, usually associated with military starships, which may be located on or off-world.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This system is on the great Nudashiir Lagani main.

Binary Solar System

Gashikan Binary Star System

Gashikan
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G2 V	Main Sequence		1	5720 - 5770	1
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0094	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.94	9.4
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
	Remarks
Gashikan
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M4 V	Main Sequence		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

Mainworld Topography and Geography

Gashikan has a single supercontinent.

Locations:

• Khasla: The capital city
• Laakida: A southern coastal region
• Nitholis: A city destroyed in the Sack of Gashikan, ruins long maintained as a monument

Native Sophont: Yileans

• Gashikan is the home world to a minor race of Humaniti called the Yileans. They are a distinct subspecies of Homo sapiens, though now highly diluted by long intermixing with Vilani migrants during the first and second Imperiums.

History & Background

This T-Prime/Garden world has been home to a series of genocidal human empires. This world is historically important and has a high population, excellent starport facilities and shipyards. The law level is extremely restrictive, although trade continues to thrive.

Gashikan has long been a player in warfare between humans and Vargr. The planet was subject to nuclear attack in -1658, and the Empire is still sometimes subject to Urzaeng raiding. Today, in the Third Empire of Gashikan, Vargr economic exploitation is still common, especially in the coreward areas and in most of Trenchans Sector. On Gashikan itself, Vargr are subject to immediate and summary execution; elsewhere in the rimward sections of the sector, Vargr segregation, serfdom, and peonage are more common than outright Vargr slavery, although the latter is far from unknown.

World Starport (St)

Gashikan has a Class A Starport, an excellent quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Population (P)

Gashikan has a population of 3,000,000,000 sophonts (billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets.

World Demographics

The vast majority of the population are racially blended, with Vilani and Yilean ancestry. Traditionally, Yilean traits -- blue tint to the skin, straight black hair -- are prized. Solomani ancestry is also apparent.

World Languages

• Galanglic
• Modern Gashikan
• Vilani (language)

Urbanization

Except for monuments like Nitholis, Gashikan has long recovered from the nuclear bombardment of the Sack. To protect its verdant beauty, the Third Empire of Gashikan imposes strict limits on immigration and new construction. Unless hired to perform an important job, visitors are generally not permitted to stay longer than two months. However, short-term visitors' visas are free, and tourism is one of Gashikan's major sources of income. Over 35% of Gashikan's land is officially protected wilderness area, where no permanent structures may be built.

World Technology Level (T)

Gashikan possesses a Technology Level of TL–12 or TL-C in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land, Water & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-3.

World Government (G)

Gashikan is governed by a Charismatic Dictatorship. Charismatic governments justify their ability to rule by simply asserting their right to rule. Charismatic dictatorships are young governments, coming as a recent change and rely on the leader(s) to supply head of government.

Information and Media

The Ministry of Information and Safety (MIS) is technically an arm of the imperial Gashikan government, but in many ways it behaves independently. The Ministry's ostensible mission is to prevent the spread of damaging Vargr propaganda, and to promote peace and unity throughout the Empire. To accomplish these goals, its agents maintain careful control of all news and information.

World Law (L)

Gashikan has an extreme law level which covers every area of interaction. Laws are complex, detailed, and difficult to understand. Every interaction with the government requires an Advocate. Law enforcement is omnipresent and strict. Legal proceeding can take months to years to resolve and may involve dozens of people. A world with this law level may be an Amber Zone or a Red Zone. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (with no exception for private residences; visiting starships are only protected so long as they stay within designated starports and approach corridors). Civilian movement is rigidly controlled. On worlds with this degree of law, it is difficult to distinguish the police from the military. On others, there is no difference.

Except for the well-armed police, no-one on Gashikan can legally own a weapon more deadly than a small pocketknife. Hunting is also prohibited, so visitors have no excuse to possess weaponry.

A network of spy cameras constantly monitors the entire planet.

Military

Gashikan has been the site of an extensive Naval Base for centuries. While the objective importance of the base has varied considerably over time, it ranks highly in the Navy for importance and honor among the personnel. While most spacers prefer to serve aboard ships, none will turn down a posting to Gashikan System Command.

History

Gashikan as relative to the Ziru Sirka at its height; right.

World Timeline

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

• -6203: Gashikan region colony project started
• -5106: Hezeraek Cultural region consolidated by Vilani
• -3800: Gashikan revolt begins; started by Vilani aristocracy uncertain of their cultural standing under the Ziru Sirka
• (-3768): The first Trenchans Empire formed.
• -3633: Empire of Gushashi founded.
• -3166: Hezeraek rebel, lending momentum to the 2nd Coreward Revolts.
• (-2219): End of the Interstellar Wars.
• (-2204): Rule of Man founded. Second Imperium period starts.
• (-1998): The First Empire of Gashikan is formed with Gushashi roots
• (-1776 to 0): Long Night. Second Imperium period ends in -1776.
• (-1658): The Sack of Gashikan, an atrocity known throughout the coreward parts of Charted Space.
• (-1646): The Second Empire of Gashikan is formed.
• (-1483 to -321): The Gashikan Race Wars, a serious of conflicts that occur in the Vargr Extents between human and Vargr extremists.
• (1070): The Second Empire of Gashikan is shattered by civil war.
• (1078): The Third Empire of Gashikan forms. Some Second Empire members don't rejoin, but become part of the Julian Protectorate.

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• Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy