Dim (world)

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Dim/Shinkan (Core 3206)
Classic Era (1116)
C646444-9
StarportC Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g)
Atmosphere4 Thin (tainted)
Hydrographics6 Wet World 60%
Population4 Moderate (30 thousand)
Government4 Representative Democracy
Law4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons)
Tech Level9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary M0 V
Planetoid Belts 0
Gas Giants 4

Dim is a pre-agricultural and nonindustrial world lacking adequate development for its economy to become prosperous.

  • As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
  • It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Shinkan Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.

Description (Planetology)

The system’s largest gas giant is named Oaf, and is just barely under the threshold of being classified as a brown dwarf. It is not much smaller than the system primary, Dim. The two bodies orbit one another about a close barycentre. The other planets of the system are circumbinary, orbiting the star and gas giant as a pair. [2]

Monostellar System

Dim Monostellar System
Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol)
Dim

M0 V

Primary Main Sequence 0.57 3770 - 3850 0.13982
Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0027 0.031 0.39 - 0.74 0.27 2.7
Orbit #  *  * 2 0 5
Remarks
The Primary World and Primary Star share the same name.

History & Background (Dossier)

Dim Highport's numerous taverns, speakeasies and dive bars are crowded with Travellers who trade information; those returning from Antares or Fornast often seek to spend time here, to refamiliarize themselves with goings-on in Core.

Economy

The surface of Dim is barely populated. The world's metal and mineral reserves are poor, although a few small operations scratch out a living mining copper, aluminium and tungsten. The main industry is ice cracking.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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