Environment

The Environment are the factors associated with a specific location within the known universe usually a planet or world through the study of planetology.

• Typically environments are associated with specific life-supporting factors on terrestrial worlds.

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• Environment
  • Ellipsoid world
  • Fluid world
  • Gas Giant
  • Hellworld
  • Iceworld
  • Ocean world
  • Planetoid Belts
  • Radworld
  • Satellite world
  • Stormworld
  • Terran prime (Gaian or Garden) world
  • Twilight world
  • Vacuum world

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Description (Specifications)

These various factors include:

• Physical factors: What is the surface of the world, if present, solids or liquids? Perhaps even gases?
• Biological factors: Does the environment support life?
• Chemical factors: Does the environment support a beneficial biochemistry?

Biotic vs. Abiotic

• Life-supporting environments are called biotic as in capable of supporting organic lifeforms.
• Environments which do not support conventional life are known as abiotic, or not capable of supporting organic lifeforms.

History & Background (Dossier)

The IISS typically classifies worlds with hostile environments as hellworlds.

Sophontigraphic Designators

• Data Repository
• Homeworld
• Mainworld
• Rosette
• Sphereworld

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.

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science