Depot (De 1613) (world)

Depot/Inar (Deneb 1613) Milieu 1116 A10066A-F 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 6 Moderate (2 million) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law A Extreme Law (no weapons) Tech Level F High Stellar (anagathics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	F9 V
Worlds	11
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Captive government
Law Level	Extreme
Cultural Extension	887H
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	15
Economic Extension	A56+4 Resources A Abundant Labor 5 Moderate (200 thousand) Infrastructure 6 Limited Efficiency +4 Advanced
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	1,200
GWP (BCr)	19
World Trade Number	5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	31,197
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	2,000
Port employees	18,565
Port passengers (annual)	11,500

Depot is a vacuum world, lacking any atmosphere or surface water. The system has a population in the millions of sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. This world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions make it dangerous to visitors.  Government control of this world is by an external military force. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Inar Subsector of Deneb Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Depot, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. This world hosts an Imperial Naval Depot.

Depot (De 1613) (world)/Inar (Deneb 1613) New Era A10066A-F 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 6 Moderate (1 million) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law A Extreme Law (no weapons) Tech Level F High Stellar (anagathics)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Captive government
Law Level	Extreme
Cultural Extension	685H
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	15
Economic Extension	A56+2 Resources A Abundant Labor 5 Moderate (100 thousand) Infrastructure 6 Limited Efficiency +2 Good
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	600
GWP (BCr)	9
World Trade Number	5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	66,607
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	1,000
Port employees	9,765
Port passengers (annual)	1,200

Era: New Era

Depot Alpha is a vacuum world, lacking any atmosphere or surface water. The system has a population in the millions of sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. Government control of this world is by an external military force. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Inar Subsector of Deneb Sector. This world hosts a Regency Naval Depot.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

The actual name of the world itself is Sika'im.

Depot Alpha is a very unimpressive rockball. The system was largely settled because of its emptiness and strategic location. Most of the civilian population lives in a group of five large settlements set in a pair of nearly matching impact craters known as the Bicycle. The small ridge of mountains that separate the two craters contains the civilian downport.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Imperium placed its depot in the Inar subsector due to the competitiveness of Deneb’s political system. The location is close enough to protect the Coreward frontier while also keeping a close watch over Inar, Vincennes and Atsah subsectors.

The Grand Admiral of the Deneb Fleet, Manasori Ru, is stationed at Depot.

Lurent ships are not permitted to travel to Depot.

Formerly known as Sika'im. This barren rockball was originally claimed and settled by the Imperial Navy in 388, and started out as a naval base and test range. Just prior to the First Frontier War, the base was upgraded into a full depot, charged with supporting the entire region Behind the Claw. Despite the massive area this entailed, so important was it for fleet marshaling and resupply that when Olav Plankwell set out for Core to wrest the Imperial throne from Jacqueline I, it was at Depot that he collected and organized his fleet for the long journey. Eighteen years later Arbellatra Alkhalikoi too set out for Core from Depot, and in Navy traditions it became the demarcation point between the Domain of Deneb and the "rest" of the Imperium.

A shipyard owned by Ling-Standard Products is located in the Nightshirt crater about 200 kilometers, which produced ships that showcased the Imperium's technological advances in antebellum times, but now mostly produces TL-15 to 16 ships for real jobs rather than propaganda.

Civilians actually have a fairly comfortable life, aside from periodic updates of their security clearances by Naval Intelligence. Habitation on Alpha is limited to personnel either directly employed by the base, or in its supporting industries and services. All housing is consigned by the Navy, which doesn't have much tolerance for outside entrepreneurs. Licenses must be obtained for the operation of entertainment, food concession and drinking establishments, and these are primarily provided to long standing residents or retired military personnel.

Unlike its sister, Depot Beta, Alpha retains a fair amount of the smug class pretensions of the old Imperial Navy, and an ironclad pecking order exists at all levels. Even the supposedly free civilian assembly and regulatory agencies tend to defer to local military commanders and their underlings. Moreover a strong local antipathy towards the Representational Reforms is evident in the officer clubs and NCO bars, sentiments that put it increasingly at odds with both the Tower and the rest of the Navy command structure. About seventy percent of the world is covered in military barracks, training grounds and administrative offices, and much of it is accessible to civilians with only a minor background check. But the heart of Alpha is a vast collection of orbital facilities around Sika'im itself, or around or on other nearby celestial bodies. Most of these facilities are off limits to civilians and unauthorized personnel, and are defended by sentries with shoot to kill authorization.

Most famous of these facilities is the so called Silver Lady, otherwise known as Plant 21, a massive twenty million ton space habitat that houses one of the Regency's most advanced shipyards and research facilities. The Lady is responsible for nearly sixty percent of the Regency's naval designs constructed since the Collapse, and the facility houses its own meson guns and monitor squadrons for self defense. Alpha's two asteroid belts are used for weapons testing and live fire exercises, and many areas are off limits. The innermost belt also contains a number of labs and test facilities, and several factories all engaged in generally classified work. Alpha has been beset for decades by allegations of lax security in regards to the Quarantine and antiviral measures. This follows the mysterious destruction of a lab on the fringes of the outermost asteroid belt in 1145, leading to the deaths of nearly a hundred personnel. Several investigations have turned up similar security lapses which are never remedied despite pledges to do so from successive commanding officers and the local navy administration.

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. Rebellion Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1988), 34.
• Gary L. Thomas, Joe Fugate. "Data/Library: Deneb." The Travellers' Digest 19 (1990): 24-30.
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58.
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 57.
• Peter Gray - Traveller TNE Mailing List Depot Alpha/Inar published 10 May 2001
• JTAS Online Depot Deneb, Part II by Terry Carlino published February 14, 2006
• JTAS Online Depot Deneb, Part I by Terry Carlino January 31, 2006
• Mongoose Traveller: Deneb Sector (UWP only)
• External Link: Sunbane data