Danelag (world)
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Danelag/Eakoi (Reaver's Deep 1136) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | E686889-5
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | M2 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 3 |
Danelag is a pre-agricultural, moderate population rich garden world with over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts in population size.
- Garden worlds are known for their near-ideal utopian environments conducive to most sophonts, plants, animals, and other forms of life.
- It is a pre-agricultural world with an environment suitable for large scale agricultural and livestock industries that have not yet been widely developed.
- 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.
- This is a "low technology" world with technology competencies well below technology standards for Charted Space.
- This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Eakoi Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)
This system is part of the First Law Triangle.
Monostellar System
Danelag Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Danelag M2 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.44 3470 - 3560 0.0565 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0021 0.0197 0.25 - 0.48 0.21 2.1 Orbit # * * 1 0 4 Remarks None
System Data
No information yet available.
System Importance (Ix)
No information yet available.
Mainworld Data
Danelag has a population of 400 million organized in 303 regions of roughly 1 to 1.5 million inhabitants centered on cities of 100-150,000 inhabitants. The largest region is Valhalla on Asgard with 3,000,000 inhabitants centered on the city of the same name with 800,000 inhabitants. Most political and administrative activities take place on the regional level. What qualifies Danelag for a class 8 government rating is the number of supra-regional organizations that blanket the planet. Such organizations include the Legal Standards Committee, which ensures compatibility between the various regional legal systems, the Interregional Police Coordinating Agency, the Trade Balance Board, which compiles trade statistics and offers advice to the differing regions about what future crops will be most profitable, the Uniform Weights & Measures Commission, the Cultural Exchange Committee, as well as others not listed.
Mainworld Size (S)
No information yet available.
Mainworld Atmosphere (A)
Danelag has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.
Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)
No information yet available.
Mainworld Geography & Topography
No information yet available.
Mainworld Map
No information yet available.
Native Lifeforms
No information yet available.
History & Background (Dossier)
Danelag was settled during the Rule of Man by a group of believers in racial purity from Scandinavia/Terra (Solomani Rim 1827) (...tall, blue-eyed blonde humans only). Since the Rule of Man did not permit member planets to control immigration it was necessary to move outside its borders. During the Long Night the planet was plagued by Reaver attacks due to a technology high enough to be tempting and too low to allow an effective defense. Eventually the planet switched to less portable (and thus less attractive) energy sources, especially wind and water driven electric turbines. Overall technology also declined and stabilized around TL-5. After this they were left alone, except for occasional slave raids, until invaded by Aslan of the Eakoi Corporation around -900. The Aslan left the humans pretty much alone, but their high-tech industry inevitably reduced the humans to a much-resented second-class status. During the Eakoi Trade Conflict the Soloman Hegemony overran the Aslan on Danelag and established an advance base there with the enthusiastic support of the local humans. For over a hundred years Soloman poured trillions of credits into the world. Then, when the Eakoi Corporation withdrew from Eakoi, the overextended Soloman Hegemony pulled out of Danelag and as a result caused a massive recession. Since then the population of Danelag has been very insular, thoroughly convinced that Outsiders (they spell it with a capital "O") are nothing but trouble.
This attitude is riot helped by the fact that Danelag is still, even today, the occasional victim of slave raids although seldom twice by the same slavers. Nearly all cities, villages, and individual farmsteads are connected to deep tunnels filed with various traps and, while no one except the police and hunters carry weapons outside their homes, every household has one or more heavy weapons hidden away. These weapons can include anything from crunch guns to rocket launchers, and each high-tech heirloom is lovingly preserved and maintained, as is anything that can give an armored raider a hard time. Raiding Danelag is seldom cost-effective. After an attempted raid the planet is usually left done for a decade or two until the rumors are forgotten and the lesson has to be taught to a new generation of slavers.
World Starport (Sp)
TBD
World Population (P)
No information yet available.
World Demographics
Humaniti, population 95%
- Other, population 5%
World Government (G)
TBD
World Law Level (L)
No information yet available.
World Technology Level (TL)
TBD
World Military
No information yet available.
World Economy (Ex)
No information yet available.
Trade Data
No information yet available.
Urbanization
No information yet available.
World Infrastructure
This world possesses TBD infrastructure.
World Culture (Cx)
No information yet available.
World Language/s
Historical Data
No information yet available.
World Timeline
No information yet available.
UWP Listing
No information yet available.
References & Contributors (Sources)
An adventure set on Danelag was published in JTAS Online. You need to be a subscriber to see it. You can find the adventure here. |
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- J. Andrew Keith. Far Traveller 1 (FASA, 1982), TBD.
- Dale Kemper. Far Traveller 2 (FASA, 1983), TBD.
- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), TBD.
- J. Andrew Keith, Marc Miller, John Harshman. Aslan (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), TBD. (named but no further data)
- William H. Keith Jr.. Duneraiders (Gamelords, 1984), TBD.
- J. Andrew Keith. Ascent to Anekthor (Gamelords, 1984), TBD.
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- Loren Wiseman. Challenge 54 (Game Designers' Workshop, 1991), 20.
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- Kevin Knight. Traveller Chronicle 06 (Sword of the Knight Publications, 1994), TBD.
- Kevin Knight. "A Pilot's Guide to the Caledon Subsector." Traveller Chronicle 07 (1995): TBD.
- William H. Keith Jr., J. Andrew Keith. Scam (Cargonaut Press, 1998), TBD.
- Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), TBD.
- Steve Jackson, Loren Wiseman. Alien Races 4 (Steve Jackson Games, 2001), TBD.
- Brett Kruger. Into the Deep 4 (BKP, 2011), TBD.
- EXTERNAL LINK: Archive.org RingSurf Reavers' Deep Net Ring by Author & Contributor: Keven R. Pittsinger of the RingSurf Reavers' Deep Net Ring
- EXTERNAL LINK: Caledon Subsector - Jimmy Simpson
- EXTERNAL LINK: Non-Canon Traveller Library dead link
- EXTERNAL LINK: Jtas.net Library Data
- EXTERNAL LINK: landgrab
- EXTERNAL LINK: Landgrab 2
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Mitchberg
- Author & Contributor: IISS Junior Administrator and Master Astrographer Ensign Phillips
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com