Gashema (world)

Gashema/Vland (Vland 1717)
Classic Era (1116)	F43456C-E Starport F Error in Starport Decode Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 3 Vacuum (very thin) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 5 Moderate (200 thousand) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law C Extreme Law (no privacy) Tech Level E High Stellar (anti-grav cities)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F8 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	0

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Gashema is a nonindustrial world, that requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.

• In a technological universe, societies without industrial capability generally suffer as nearly all manufactured and high tech goods must be brought in at significant cost.
• 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.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or over technology standards for Charted Space.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Vland Subsector of Vland Sector in the Domain of Vland.
• This world is not a mainworld.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Orbiting Vland at a distance 550,000 km, Gashema (UWP=F43456C-F) is a world in the Vland (system) that is a moon of the primary world of Vland.

Monostellar System

Gashema Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Gashema G3 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.99	5680 - 5720	0.96544
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0815	0.94 - 1.66	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	3	1	6

System Data: The Vland System

No information yet available.

World Data

It is a marginally habitable moon with its thin atmosphere and significant amount of free water.

World Geography & Topography

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

Gashema supports a thriving colony, a psychohistorical research station, and a military base.

Imperial High / Landed Nobility

There are no assigned nobles on this planet, which is not a mainworld.

World Starport

Gashema has a Class F Spaceport, a good quality secondary installation for handing expected in-system traffic. It can supply amenities like brokerage services for passengers and cargo and refined fuel. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Spaceports usually consist of a Downport.

• Trans Galactic Starlines, in partnership with Vilani megacorporation Zirunkariish have set-up alternate starports for ease of access and use with connecting in-system service provided to passengers. In the Vland system, Gashema is used. This alternate starport has a Brubek's gastropub and a Medel's Mega Mart.
• Khugishu Bilanidin runs almost all of its shipping activities for the Vland System through Gashema using the relatively cheap, quick, and regular intra-system transport between Gashema and Vland for passengers or cargo destined for that world.

World Technology Level

Gashema possesses a Technology Level of TL–14 or TL-E in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early meson communicators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, early collectors, and advanced fusion plants.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land, Water & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-5.

World Government

Gashema has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. A colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.

• Gashema is a natural satellite and colony of Vland. It does not have an independent government.

World Military

It has a military base - the operational headquarters of Vland's COACC.

World Economy

Argushiigi Admegulasha Bilanidin established a branch on Gashema during the First Imperium as a back-up for the holdings on Vland. The Argushiigi Admegulasha Bilanidin branch on Gashema, therefore, conducts no original research, but is an alternate, back-up repository designed to ensure that should a catastrophe occur on Vland the record and knowledge of the Argushiigi Admegulasha Bilanidin would not be lost.

• The AAB branch on Gashema includes a branch of the University of Kasiiga offfering a variety of courses of study for the planet's residents and off-world students.
• Vilani megacorporation Zirunkariish maintains its primary records repository on Gashema as well as a major trading clearinghouse.
• Urakkalan Co-Prosperity Development Trust: - This Zirunkariish subsidiary is committed to economic development of the Vland System through direct investment and other projects anywhere within the Vland system, except on the mainworld of Vland. It is headquartered on Gashema. Ownership: Zirunkariish--50%, Shiishuginsa family--20%, Sharurshid Trust--10%, Makhidkarun--10%, and Naasirka--10%.

Trade Data

Khugishu Bilanidin runs almost all of its shipping activities for the Vland System through Gashema using the relatively cheap, quick, and regular intra-system transport between Gashema and Vland for passengers or cargo destined for that world.

Trans Galactic Starlines, in partnership with Vilani megacorporation Zirunkariish have set-up alternate starports for ease of access and use with connecting in-system service provided to passengers. In the Vland system, Gashema is used. This alternate starport has a Brubek's gastropub and a Medel's Mega Mart.

World Demographics

No information yet available.

World Culture

No information yet available.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors / Sources

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• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), .
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• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 4
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• Author & Contributor: FarScout275
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science