Forboldn (world)

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Forboldn/Regina (Spinward Marches 1808)
Milieu 1116
D893614-5
StarportD Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere9 Dense (tainted)
Hydrographics3 Wet World 30%
Population6 Moderate (3 million)
Government1 Company/Corporation
Law4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons)
Tech Level5 Industrial (mass production)
See also UWP
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System Details
Primary G0 V
Worlds 14
Gas Giants 2
Planetoid Belts 1
Cultural Details
Government Company or Corporation
Law Level Moderate
Cultural Extension 4333
Army Size (BEs) 3
Economic Details
Technology Level 5
Economic Extension
851-5
Resources8Moderate
Labor5Moderate (300 thousand)
Infrastructure1 Extremely limited
Efficiency-5Extremely poor
Importance Extension -3
Resource Units 20
GWP (BCr) 2
World Trade Number 3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year) 265
Starport Details
Classification Class-D
Port Size 3
Building Capacity (Tons) 2,400
Port employees 20
Port passengers (annual) 1,600

Forboldn has a population between 10,000 and 10 million sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. This a low technology world with technology competency below the standard for Charted Space. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Regina Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Forboldn, 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.

Forboldn (world)/Regina (Spinward Marches 1808)
New Era
D893614-5
StarportD Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere9 Dense (tainted)
Hydrographics3 Wet World 30%
Population6 Moderate (6 million)
Government1 Company/Corporation
Law4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons)
Tech Level5 Industrial (mass production)
See also UWP
Cultural Details
Government Company or Corporation
Law Level Moderate
Cultural Extension 4333
Army Size (BEs) 3
Economic Details
Technology Level 5
Economic Extension
851+4
Resources8Moderate
Labor5Moderate (600 thousand)
Infrastructure1 Extremely limited
Efficiency+4Advanced
Importance Extension -3
Resource Units 160
GWP (BCr) 2
World Trade Number 3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year) 688
Starport Details
Classification Class-D
Port Size 3
Building Capacity (Tons) 2,400
Port employees 50
Port passengers (annual) 820

Era: New Era

Forboldn system has a population between 10 and 100 million sophonts. This a low technology world with technology competency below the standard for Charted Space. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Regina Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

It is part of the Regina Cluster.


Monostellar System

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

G0 V

 Primary Main Sequence 1.06 5860 - 5930 1.22623
Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0051 0.0918 1.04 - 1.83 0.51 5.1
Orbit #  *  * 4 1 6
Remarks
''Ivush''

System Data

Forboldn is a non-industrial Imperial planet orbiting in the life zone around Ivush, a G0 V star with a mass of 1.04 and a stellar luminosity of 1.05.

Mainworld Data

It is a large, molten-core planet with a diameter of 8,080 miles.

  • The density is 6.05 grams per cubic centimeter (1.1 Earth's density), the mass is 1.16 Earth masses, and the [[gravity is 1.11 G.
  • The rotation period is 26h 24m 00s and the orbital period is 724.88 days (668.1 local days).
  • The atmosphere is a standard oxygen-nitrogen mix with a surface pressure of 2.11 tainted by high C02 concentrations.
  • Hydrographic percentage is 26.
  • The axial tilt is 27 degrees and the orbital eccentricity is nil.
  • Base temperature is 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) giving Forboldn a summer high of 156 degrees F (69 degrees C) at the equator and a winter low of -44 degrees F (-42 degrees C) at the poles.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

The land surface of Forboldn is divided into four regions:

  1. The Highlands, where baseline humans can breathe comfortably;
  2. the Uplands;
  3. the Midlands; and...
  4. the Lowlands at sea level. To breathe comfortably in the Uplands, one level of C02 tolerance is necessary, in the Midlands two levels are necessary, and in the Lowlands three levels are required. A certain yoga-like breathing technique allows an adept to breathe air one level above his tolerance level as long as he is conscious.

Mainworld Map

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

Native life is present.

History and background

Forboldn's population is presently undergoing rapid growth due to a large number of immigrants (See Forboldn Project).

  • It was about 3.2 million as of 001-1117.

Imperial High / Landed Nobility

Forboldn, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Nobility overseeing the world.

World Starport

Forboldn has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Technology Level

Forboldn possesses a Technology Level of TL–5.

World Government

Forboldn is governed by a Corporate Polity with a single corporation with a typical corporate structure as a government. A company town, or world. The typical corporate run world usually has a single purpose. Examples include mining, agriculture, or other kinds of resource extraction. But rather than a simple base of operations, there are facilities for housing workers and their families including hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure. How, or if, the children of the workers are incorporated into the workforce varies with companies. The corporation running the world may be a subsidiary of a larger interstellar corporation.

World Law Level

The law level is low.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Demographics

Forboldn's population has recently grown explosively due to a large number of immigrants shipped in by the Ministry of Colonization. The so-called Forboldn Project failed as the necessary infrastructure to support the higher population in a reasonable manner was not constructed in time.

World Culture

The high C02 content of the atmosphere has largely restricted development of Forboldn to the highlands where the concentration is low enough to be tolerable. Though filter masks allow humans to breathe in the lowlands, most people prefer to make their home where they can breathe without artificial aid.

  • Eighty percent of the population lives on the Wueldn Plateau, an area roughly the size of France located in the southern temperate zone, and on other, smaller, high-lying areas.
  • The remaining 20% consists of people with a higher than normal tolerance for C02 who are able to survive at lower altitudes and are spread out across the rest of the planet.

On Forboldn, where people for many generations have bred for this trait, it is much more common than usual and many Forboldians can survive C02 levels that would quickly kill a normal, baseline human. This tolerance is distributed evenly along a curve, but Forboldians usually think of it as divided into three discrete levels. Off-worlders have at most one level of C02 tolerance, and that only rarely. Only people from Forboldn and planets with similar atmospheric conditions will have two or three levels.

Urbanization

Historical Data

Forboldn was settled in two stages, in 83 by the Asharii, a group of exiles driven from Lishun during one of the Imperial pacification campaigns, and in 141 by the Gugurans, a group of utopians from Dagudashaag with a fake grant to the planet sold them by a swindler. The result was a smoldering brushfire war between the two groups that lasted for five generations. In 234 the Ashari government was recognized by the Emperor as the sole legitimate government of Forboldn and immediately petitioned to join the Imperium. In 250 Forboldn and six other planets in the Regina Cluster was formally admitted. With Imperial aid the so-called Endless War was formally ended in 286, but accidents and mismanagement combined to keep the settlers poor and their technology low. With the pressure of the Endless War removed, the two rival settlements spread out and degenerated into numerous squabbling villages unable to cooperate on anything. Many settlers moved to areas far from their former neighbors, thus spreading the sparse population out across much of the habitable land. The world government soon found it impossible to govern the widely dispersed population and, though never formally dissolved, ceased to function within decades. No Imperial noble was ever appointed for the planet.

Over the years the distinction between Ashari and Gugurans blurred and became overridden by a general dislike of anybody not belonging to whatever local community one belonged to. From time to time larger political units arose, usually by force of arms, but they never encompassed more than a fraction of the planet and seldom lasted for more than one or two generations.

In 987 the Ministry of Colonization decided to attempt to utilize the many hectares of prime land not in use on Forboldn. This, however, provoked the locals into reviving the colonial government that had lain crippled for centuries. If the locals could not agree on anything else, they could at least agree that they did not want any outsiders muscling in.

For many decades the situation remained deadlocked until the ministry in 1089 finally persuaded the locals to allow the formation of the Forboldn Meliorative Society, a company in which they all received stock. The lure was the sizable subsidies promised by the ministry. The cost was an agreement to let in more settlers.

The plan was to import 1 million new settlers from 1110 to 1120, each new settler receiving roughly the same amount of stock as the original 2.2 million inhabitants. With their skills the tech level and wealth of the planet would hopefully increase to the point where more new settlers could be attracted with less inducement. The Ministry of Colonization goal was a healthy agricultural planet with Early Stellar technology and around 10 million inhabitants.

In 1110, when the first batch of new settlers arrived, that plan was already going awry. Parts of the project were several years behind even before the Fifth Frontier War caused them to come to a screeching halt. Unfortunately, the plan involved recruiting new settlers in the Imperial core and this part was not affected by the war; the settlers began arriving exactly according to schedule. But the infrastructure necessary to house them, feed them, and put them to work had not been built. It became necessary to divert project funds to buy supplies and ferry them to Forboldn. Worse, the local Colonial Office officials have decided to cover up the problem, so the Ministry of Colonization believes everything is going fine and colonists keep coming. So far the Colonial Office has managed to keep most of the newcomers alive, but little progress has been made in making them self-sufficient.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

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