Degushush (world)

Degushush/Old Suns (Dagudashaag 1302) Milieu 1116 C9C58A8-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 9 Large (14,400 km, 1.03g - 1.33g) Atmosphere C Exotic (insidious) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 8 Moderate (400 million) Government A Charismatic Dictator Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K4 V
Worlds	13
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Charismatic dictatorship
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	8859
Army Size (BEs)	150
Economic Details
Technology Level	9
Economic Extension	C79+1 Resources C Very abundant Labor 7 Moderate (40 million) Infrastructure 9 Extensive Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	756
GWP (BCr)	1,171
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	7,285
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	480,000
Port employees	580
Port passengers (annual)	13,500

Degushush has an oceanic geography of a liquid other than water such as ammonia, methane, hydrocarbons, or other exotic liquids. The system supports a population in the hundreds of millions. This world is a satellite of a gas giant or another planet in the system. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Old Suns Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Degushush, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight and the fiefdom of a viscount. Both are members of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. This is the homeworld of the Zirduluush, a Minor Race. During the Long Night this world was named Seg.

Astrography and planetology

Degushush is the outer most satellite of the large gas giant Balirur. It is a hellish heavy-core world with a gravity of 1.881 g and a surface atmospheric pressure of around 33 atmospheres. The atmosphere is composed of hydrogen, methane, ammonia, small quantities of chlorine as well as several other trace gases. The soils are made up of a noxious chemical brew mainly consisting of ammonia. The average temperature on the surface is +116ºC.

Monostellar System

Degushush Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Degushush 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

Native Sophont: Zirduluush

Despite the extremely hostile conditions Degushush has spawned native life as well as a minor sophont species called the Zirduluush by the Vilani.

History and background

The few humans on the world live in a TL–11 sealed city while the many hundreds of millions of Zirduluush follow a stone-age existence in the outback.

References and contributors

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.

• Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Old Suns." Signal-GK 04 (1992): 47. - HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 79.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 86.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science