Damascus (world)
| Damascus/Aldebaran (Aldebaran 1610) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | D722430-8
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary | M7 V M2 V M9 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Damascus is a poor, nonindustrial hellworld with a population struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.
- Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often develop intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
- It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
- This world is a "Twilight Zone World", a planet that is tidally-locked to its star. It has a hot side that permanently faces the star, a cold side that permanently faces away, and a narrow twilight zone in-between.
- It is a member of the Solomani Confederation in the Aldebaran Subsector of Aldebaran Sector.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)
Stellar Data
Damascus is a trinary star system.
- All three are red main sequence stars.
Damascus has three stars in the star system. Primary 
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity M1 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.5 3620 - 3660 0.08839 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0047 0.0247 0.31 - 0.59 0.47 4.7 Orbit # * * 1 1 6 Remarks Flare Star. Secondary
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity M2 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.44 3470 - 3560 0.0565 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0041 0.0197 0.25 - 0.48 0.41 4.1 Orbit # * * 1 1 6 Remarks Flare Star. Approximately 0.06 AU from the primary. Tertiary
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity M9 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.079 2350 - 2380 0.00014 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0009 0.001 0.01 - 0.03 0.09 0.9 Orbit # * * * * 3 Remarks Flare Star. Approximately 200 AU from the primary.
Notes
The primary-secondary binary pair have an average separation of 0.06 AU and orbit a barycenter that lies between them.
- They have an orbital period around one another of 5.5 standard days.
The tertiary star lies approximately 200 AU from the primary-secondary binary pair and orbits a barycenter that lies between it and them.
- It has an orbital period around the primary-secondary binary pair of 3,100 standard years.
System Data
Damascus is trinary star system, with 3 M-class stars. Damascus-A and -B orbit closely, and are in turn orbited Damascus-C at 200 AU. All 3 stars are notably variable and tempermental, producing solar flares and radiation storms at irregular intervals.
3 Gas Giants — 0 Planetoid Belts — 11 Other Worlds
Mainworld Data
The Damascus mainworld orbits the twin stars on the outside edge of the habitable zone, which puts just enough distance between it and the stars to make the radiation influx survivable. The mainworld has a very thin atmosphere, requiring a vaccsuit, and cold-pole ice-cap. The atmospheric gases have a significant radiation taint, and are continual source of concern for the inhabitants.
Mainworld Geography & Topography
Most of the notable terrain is impact craters, but there are a few low mountain ranges.
Mainworld Map
No information yet available.
Native Lifeforms
None.
History & Background / Dossier
No information yet available.
World Starport
Damascus has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.
Damascus Downport is on the outskirts of Shield, and the original structures are still in use but under constant repair.
Observation: This downport is dangerous to visit and you should interact in numbers and with heavy armament. Expect deals to go bad, and plan for a resolution. People here are desperate for a number of personal motivations.
Bright has a marked landing spot, and a single source of unrefined fuel. It might do in a pinch for supplies, and is marginally safer than the Shield Downport.
World Technology Level
Damascus possesses a Technology Level of TL–8.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics, improved telephones, and satellite communication and data networks.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Improved geothermal and improved batteries.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Advanced automobiles.
- Water: Triphibians and early artificial gills.
- Air: Improved helicopters and hypersonic jets.
- Space: Space shuttles, early space stations, and improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
World Government
Damascus is governed by Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy. A single family or small group provides the leadership and important positions in the government. These positions are inherited by member of the group or their family members. The organization may be a monarchy, with titles passed to family members, or a plutocracy where inheritance of the family fortune includes government position. Alternatively, the organization may be a more typical government apparatus, only with positions of power inherited.
World Law Level
Damascus has no law in practice. It is an Anarchy. On many worlds, this by itself justifies an Amber Zone advisory. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate.
World Military
No information yet available.
World Economy
There are abundant metal runs in the crust, and significant phosphorus compound reservoirs. These are being mined, and used locally. The vertical argicultural centers are continually in repair, and use considerable phosphorus as fertilizer.
Trade Data
Metal bars and phosphorus fertilizer are exported thru irregular merchant ships.
World Demographics
Humaniti 95%
Other 5%
World Culture
- Heterogeneity Discordant
- Acceptance Extremely xenophobic
- Strangeness Extremely confusing
- Symbols Abstract
Urbanization
The main urban center, Damascus Shield, is set near the cold-pole icepack, well-protected from the radiation storms, but only occasionally illuminated by Damascus-C. There is a heavy rail-line to a second settlement within the Twilight Zone, Damascus Bright.
Shield was apparently built to be a long-term colony center that was later abandoned. The bulk of the population resides in Shield, but the population within Bright tends to be more well-off economically, with family guards to defend their holdings.
Historical Data
No information yet available.
World Timeline
No information yet available.
UWP Listing
D 7 2 2 4 3 0 – 8
References & Contributors / Sources
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- Classic Traveller Alien Module 6: Solomani (named but no further data)
- MegaTraveller Solomani & Aslan (dot map provided)
- Periodical: Imperial Lines 2 by Author: Steven Eric Schwartz
- Mongoose Traveller: Solomani
- External Link: CORE Data Site
- External Link: Federation Development Agency
- External Link: Zho Berka's Maps
- Author & Contributor: Garnfellow
- Author & Contributor: Leroy W.L. Guatney of the Federation Development Agency (FDA)
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com