Giarkhesa (world)

Giarkhesa/Remnants (Dagudashaag 1027)
Milieu 0	C542255-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 2 Low (400) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
Classic Era (1116)	C542366-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 3 Low (2 thousand) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M0 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	0

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Giarkhesa is a poor, low-population hellworld with a population less than 10,000 sophonts struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often form intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Remnants Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector in the Domain of Vland.
• This world's government is controlled from Akigir (Dagudashaag 1129)

Description

Giarkhesa is the festival planet of Dagudashaag. Abandoned during the Rule of Man no one found any reason to re-colonize the planet. The world was overseen by Medurma Main StarLines, establishing an automated port on the planetary surface and tapping the small polar ocean for fuel.

Anyone visiting Giarkhesa is warned there are few restrictions, and fewer enforcement mechanisms. Those that exist are to protect life and property.

History & Background

During the Long Night this world was named Ginuukansaan.

In 924 Mehod Tahban, in itinerant musician, found himself stranded and decided to try and set up an artists colony. Tahban tapped into the X-Boat relay and was able to send an message throughout the sector. In this way he was able to gather thousands of similar minded individuals.

The collective discovered, quite quickly, it lacked the commitment to set up a permanent colony. Instead, the founders set up a permanent floating festival, hosting music, performance art, and other types of artistic endeavors. Giarkhesa has fewer that 250 permanent residents, but may have in excess of 10,000 visitors each year. The latter stay for a few day to a few months before moving on. The main residency remains a temporary shanty time consisting of tents and other temporary buildings, constantly changing and renewed with the visitors.

The main festival is centered around the summer solstice. A giant tumblewood statue is built next to the landing field, and then burns for seven local days. The festival runs, on and off, for half the year. The organizers insist that everyone be a part of the events, and no one is allowed to be merely a spectator.

References & Contributors

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.

• Author & Contributor: Jae Campbell from Traveller: The New Era Periodical: Signal-GK Issue #13 - HIWG
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey