Gogviksaer (world)
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | F4 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Worlds | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Government | Impersonal bureaucracy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Law Level | Extreme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cultural Extension | 8677 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Army Size (BEs) | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Technology Level | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Economic Extension | 854+2
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| Importance Extension | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Resource Units | 320 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GWP (BCr) | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Trade Number | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trade Volume (MCr/year) | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Classification | Class-D | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Port Size | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Building Capacity (Tons) | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Port employees | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Port passengers (annual) | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gogviksaer system has a population between 10 and 100 million sophonts. It is a member of Windhorn Pact of Two in the Ourrvikh Subsector of Tuglikki Sector. 100% of the world's population is the Major Race Vargr.
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| Government | Impersonal bureaucracy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Law Level | Extreme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cultural Extension | 7586 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Army Size (BEs) | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Technology Level | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Economic Extension | 853+2
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| Importance Extension | -1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Resource Units | 240 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GWP (BCr) | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Trade Number | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trade Volume (MCr/year) | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Classification | Class-D | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Port Size | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Building Capacity (Tons) | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Port employees | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Port passengers (annual) | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Era: New Era
Gogviksaer system has a population between 10 and 100 million sophonts. It is a member of Wilds in the Ourrvikh Subsector of Tuglikki Sector. 100% of the world's population is the Major Race Vargr.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)
Monostellar System
Gogviksaer Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Gogviksaer F4 V
Primary Main Sequence 1.38 6550 - 6670 3.08729 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0071 0.1457 1.58 - 2.75 0.71 7.1 Orbit # * 0 4 2 6
System Data
There is one moon around Gogviksaer
The innermost planet in the system is a "Hot Jupiter" and isn't usable for fuel skimming because of the atmospheric temperature of over 1500K. (Image)
The remaining two gas giants are all small blue ice giants with methane detectable in their atmospheres. (Image)
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Other planets in the system are vacuum worlds no larger than 3000km in diameter.
Mainworld Data
Mainworld Size (S)
Gogviksaer is a Meso World between 10,400km and 12,000km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.7G and 0.9G. The horizon will appear about 4.7km away.
The planet is 7750km radius and 24350km circumference.
It has a gravity of 0.65G.
Day Length: 29.53 hours, allowing Vargr a 12 hour Personal Day, 4 hours of sleep to Optimal, a 12 hour Personal Day with a remainder of 1.5 hours of flexibility.
Mainworld Atmosphere (A)
Gogviksaer has a pressure of 0.71 to 1.49 atmospheres. A Standard Atmosphere does not require survival gear and will likely be easy for most sophonts to breathe.
Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)
Gogviksaer has 75-85% of its surface covered by liquid water with a few large continents and extensive islands. Wilderness refueling is possible.
Mainworld Geography & Topography
The planet is made up of a number of small continents and a single ocean. It is ice-capped, in summer, up to 30 degrees from each pole. The map shows the 'Gorrsa' as exotic terrain. This is almost a million square kilometres of land lying less than 10cm above sea level - displaying tree-covered swamp, open lake, quick-sand, springs, bayous and snaking rivers and inlets of various mixes of fresh, brackish and salt water. The region is uninhabited, mostly for health reasons.
Mainworld Map
Lifeforms
Fauna
The world has an extensive fauna, with many introduced farm animals - several species of which have gone feral. It has no native Sophont species.
Flora
The world has a well established native flora, supplemented by multiple species introduced for the purposes of Agriculture (including Ice Farming) and Aquiculture.
Several local species of tree-like plant grow outwards while dying in the centre - some specimens identified using genetic testing show rings several kilometres across now back-filled by subsequent generations of growth or interpenetrated by other rings.[2]
The local flora has been partly exploited for medicinal purposes.[3]
History & Background (Dossier)
World Starport
Summary
1105
Gogviksaer has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which includes amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.
In this era, Gogviksaer is a member world of the Windhorn Pact of Two, rimward province.
1200
Gogviksaer 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.
n.b. The port has an aqueduct that supplies a substantial reservoir for a handy, clean but unrefined fuel supply.
World Technology Level
1105
Gogviksaer possesses a Technology Level of TL–5.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Electricity, hydrocarbon internal combustion, and the most fundamental atomic energy.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Ground cars or automobiles and tracked vehicles.
- Water: Large ships and submersibles with steel hulls.
- Air: Early aircraft including seaplanes and very early unmanned rockets.
1200
Gogviksaer possesses a Technology Level of TL–3.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Printing press, the mechanical telegraph, and the first audio recordings.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Coal or other simple hydrocarbon fuels and early steam engines.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Bicycles and early steam coaches with advanced roadways.
- Water: Advanced sailing and early steam engine ships.
- Air: The earliest hot air balloons.
World Government
Summary
n.b. There was no actual change of governmental structure between 1105 and 1200. The personnel have changed considerably under the pressures of both the Virus and Empress Wave.
1105
Gogviksaer is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government is another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.
1200
Gogviksaer is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government is another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.
World Law Level
The change of law level remained unchanged despite the passage of Virus and Empress Wave Gogviksaer has an extreme law level which covers every area of interaction. Laws are complex, detailed, and difficult to understand. Every interaction with the government requires an Advocate. Law enforcement is omnipresent and strict. Legal proceeding can take months to years to resolve and may involve dozens of people. A few worlds with this law level may be a Red Zone and others will be an Amber Zone. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (with no exception for private residences; visiting starships are only protected so long as they stay within designated starports and approach corridors).
World Military
1105
3 Battalions
1200
10 Battalions
World Economy
Trade Data
The world is described as Agricultural, Non-Industrial and Rich.
Post Virus
These classifications, however, require interstellar traffic and the riches have disappeared with the collapse of trade.
Agricultural Sector
The agricultural sector consists of widespread subsistence farming with a population of about 50,000 per million square kilometres in the farming areas. It is of particular note that there is considerable Aquiculture and some Ice-farming. (See Map)
World Demographics
1105: Gogviksaer has a population of 1,000,000 sophonts (millions).
- This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
Approx 5,000,000
- 70% of the population is Aekhu Vargr
- 30% of the population is Logaksu Vargr
1200: Gogviksaer has a population of 1,000,000 sophonts (millions).
- This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
Approx 3,000,000
- 70% of the population is Aekhu Vargr
- 30% of the population is Logaksu Vargr
World Culture
Urbanization
The Starport's Startown is the only area with a population of over 10,000 on the whole planet.
Architecture
The local architecture is vernacular and small-scale. The buildings reflect the need for security and many villages are walled or moated to provide protection from casual violence.
Startown was destroyed in the Vampire raids of 1145 and has been rebuilt in the vernacular style for lack of off-world building technologies.
Historical Data
Ziru Sirka
The Ziru Sirka recorded the existence of worlds, but no record of a survey has come to light
First Vargr Diaspora
Gogviksaer may have been reached by scouts of the First Vargr Diaspora, but there is no evidence of settlement.
Second Vargr Diaspora
Gogviksaer was settled at least three times during the Second Vargr Diaspora - each time by parties seeking somewhere to make their home away from the revenge of the collapsing Ziru Sirka. These settlements were each raided by other Vargr Corsairs but eventually became a base for ongoing efforts against Khouth, Gase A, Dirge Iim and Kiidga Aark, which were setting them selves up towards the end of this period in response to the Rule of Man
Long Night
Gogviksaer remained on the edge of the area controlled by Khouth, Gase A, Dirge Iim and Kiidga Aark. Sometimes as a Client State, sometimes independent. Sometimes raided, sometimes raider. It's lack of population meant that it was never a major player in this relationship.
Foundation of the Imperium
The breaking of the Khouth, Gase A, Dirge Iim and Kiidga Aark hegemony seemed possible when the Imperium intervened. This stabilised trade to Khouth and gave greater opportunities for raiding.
Vargr Campaigns
The Vargr Campaigns saw an influx of population to Gogviksaer and the planet reached its all time peak population of 12 million.
Second Frontier War
The end phase of the Second Frontier War saw Gogviksaer subject to a punishment raid by the Imperial Navy. With the destruction of much of its major food-export infrastructure, the planet was subject to economic stagnation and considerable emigration.
Windhorn Pact of Two
The proximity to Allazkhor (one of the pact's capitals) inevitably saw Gogviksaer drawn into that pact.
Virus to Wave
The Virus destruction of the starport facilities was, in many ways the lesser of the issues - it was the closure of the trade routes that had a disastrous effect on the world's technology. The vanishing of these routes meant that the off-world markets vanished which pushed the craftsmen out of the main town and into the villages - taking their skills with them. Thereafter it was a slow regression from internal combustion engine to animal power - while the manufacture of steam-powered replacements lagged for lack of supply of iron-ore.
The Wave
The effects of the wave are document elsewhere and were felt in all their variety on Gogviksaer. Overall about 40% of the population vanished - particularly the smallest children, the aged and the infirm or otherwise vulnerable.
After the Wave
The various villages recovered quite quickly from the Empress Wave - despite the loss of 40% of their inhabitants they could rely on their local wilderness for food. The Startown, more reliant on supply chains for food supplies, was particularly hard hit (nearly 60% of the Startown died) - and starving troops tended to monopolise what stores were available in the immediate aftermath. The most obvious non-effect was that the pre-existing bureaucracy was re-established relatively quickly - often with different office-holders - but the overall shape of government remained unchanged.
World Timeline
| Year | Event |
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| 1145 | Starport destroyed by Vampire Fleet |
| 1193 | Empress Wave strikes the planet |
| 1195 | Village life re-established - Efforts at world-wide recontact start |
| 1198 | Starport re-opened by visiting traders as a base for their use - Traffic is occasional and irregular |
| 1204 | Recontact is effectively complete. "The period of madness is over" |
References & Contributors (Sources)
- Contributors: BackworldTraveller and Pakkrat
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
- ↑ Information provided to the library by BackworldTraveller
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Pakkrat