Beater (world)

Beater/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 1424) Milieu 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
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System Details
Primary	K4 V
Worlds	11
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	5A49
Army Size (BEs)	15
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	958+3 Resources 9 Moderate Labor 5 Moderate (600 thousand) Infrastructure 8 Generally available Efficiency +3 Improved
Importance Extension	4
Resource Units	1,080
GWP (BCr)	33
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	2,710
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	6,600
Port employees	570
Port passengers (annual)	147,450

Beater is an agricultural production world with a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system has a population between 1 million and 10 million sophonts. It is a member of Sword Worlds Confederation in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Sword Worlds. This world supports a Sword Worlds Military Base and the system supports a Sword Worlds Naval Base.

Beater (world)/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 1424) New Era A685686-D Starport A Excellent: Starship 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 (9 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	5A4B
Army Size (BEs)	10
Economic Details
Technology Level	13
Economic Extension	958-4 Resources 9 Moderate Labor 5 Moderate (900 thousand) Infrastructure 8 Generally available Efficiency -4 Very poor
Importance Extension	3
Resource Units	216
GWP (BCr)	70
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	41,911
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	7,700
Port employees	16,560
Port passengers (annual)	3,519,700

Era: New Era

Beater is an agricultural production world with a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system has a population between 1 million and 10 million sophonts. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

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• Beater was originally named Galatine.

Description (Astrography & 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 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.

Monostellar System

Beater Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Beater K4 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.73	4440 - 4600	0.33238
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0033	0.0478	0.58 - 1.07	0.33	3.3
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	5
	Remarks
	Gawaine

Native Lifeforms

Beater's life forms tend to straddle the line between "plant" and "animal."

• Beater is renowned for its safaris.

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.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), TBD.
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 45.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 71.Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 71.
• GURPS Traveller: Sword Worlds
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science