Beater (world)

Beater/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 1424)
Classic Era (1116)	B685686-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 6 Moderate (6 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K4 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	0

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Beater is a rich, agricultural, nonindustrial garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts and high-grade living conditions due to a bustling economy.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Sword Worlds Confederation in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

• Beater was originally named Galatine.

Description (Planetology)

A rich agricultural world located at the intersection of three important trade routes in the Sword Worlds Subsector of the Spinward Marches. Beater has a dense oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere and a tropical climate. This hot and almost soupy atmosphere give rise to rampant life. Beater's life forms tend to straddle the line between "plant" and "animal." Beater is renown for its safaris.

Beater orbits its primary, Gawaine, at a distance of 0.65 AU. Beater has a single moon. The planet's capital city, Kersbog, is located on Tyst Island. Beater's downport is named Hallenport.

History & Background (Dossier)

Prior to the Fifth Frontier War, Beater was a member of the Sword Worlds Confederation, but in the aftermath of the war it became part of the Imperial Client state known as the Border Worlds Confederation.

• In 1116 the capital of the Border Worlds was moved from Sting (Spinward Marches 1525) to Beater.
• Beater has a naval base.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Classic Traveller The Spinward Marches Campaign
• GURPS Traveller: Behind the Claw
• GURPS Traveller: Sword Worlds