Pixie (world)

Pixie/Regina (Spinward Marches 1903) Milieu 1116 A100103-D Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 1 Small (1,600 km, 0.05g - 0.09g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 1 Low (90) Government 0 No Government structure Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K1 V M0 V
Worlds	15
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	No government
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	122A
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	13
Economic Extension	401-2 Resources 4 Scarce Labor 0 Barren (9) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -2 Fair
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	3
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Pixie is a vacuum world, with no atmosphere or hydrosphere. The system supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. This world contains an archaeological site with artifacts suspected to be from the now-vanished Ancients. There is a habitat or settlement for criminals or exiles from other worlds here. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Regina Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Pixie, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world. This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Pixie is a binary star system.

• The primary is an orange main sequence.
• The secondary is a red main sequence.

Pixie has two stars in the star system.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.86	5100 - 5170	0.58985
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0074	0.0637	0.76 - 1.36	0.74	7.4
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks
Secondary
	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

Although Pixie itself is a small vacuum planet with a tiny population of hard-luck belters, its large starport provides services along the Xboat route to Kinorb (Spinward Marches 2202) and Aramis (Spinward Marches 3110).

Point of Interest: Prison Hulk

The Pixie system contains a single gas giant. In orbit around the gas giant is an ex-Kinunir class Vanguard Cruiser converted to a prison, known as Imperial Prison Station 17.

History & Background (Dossier)

It reportedly, is an Ancients xeno-archaeological site.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Pixie, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight. The local Imperial Governor General is Sir Gurech of Pixie who is an Imperial Vargr and retired Naval Admiral.

Sources

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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), 20-21.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Gary L. Thomas. "Adventure: One Last Stop." The Travellers' Digest 21 (1990): 8-15.
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Marc Miller. MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy (Paragon Software, 1990), .
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 38. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 80.
• Hans Rancke-Madsen. "Worlds Within Jump-6 of Regina", JTAS Online (July 18, 2006)
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 103. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 40-45. (UWP only)
• Gareth Hanrahan. Secrets of the Ancients (Mongoose Publishing, 2010), 254.Gareth Hanrahan. Secrets of the Ancients (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 254.