Kaflowe (world)
| Kaflowe/Keum (Massilia 0514) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | D565545-7
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | K0 V M2 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kaflowe is an agricultural, nonindustrial, pre-rich world with a growing agro-economy, but still lacks an adequate population to expand its economy to a rich status.
- As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
- It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
- This world has promising economic future although it needs to recruit a larger labor force in order to achieve the desired prosperity.
- During the Long Night this world was named Nuumuuendme.
- It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Keum Subsector of Massilia Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)
No information yet available.
Binary Solar System
Kaflowe Binary Star System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Kaflowe K0 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.88 5170 - 5270 0.63928 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0038 0.0663 0.78 - 1.4 0.38 3.8 Orbit # * * 3 1 5 Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Kaflowe M2 V
Secondary Main Sequence 0.44 3470 - 3560 0.0565 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0021 0.0197 0.25 - 0.48 0.21 2.1 Orbit # * * 1 0 4
Native Lifeforms
First Imperium records indicate that early migratory colonists were the first to travel to this world.
- They found a local ecology that was almost totally incompatible with human life.
The migrants were ill-prepared to cope with this, since most of the precolonization surveys had been orbital.
- Only one biological group was found to be edible, a symbiotic triad of bird, rodent, and plant.
- Until plants from the migrant's homeworld could be coaxed to grow, this triad was the sole source of food and had to be husbanded with extreme care.
- Thus this special triad assumed a significance all out of proportion to its ecological niche.
Today's attitude toward the triad is little short of mystical adoration, though the food problem has long since been solved.
- The Grilin bird is protected and encouraged to multiply by the planting of the Siccradit tree.
- The Mikat rodent is also allowed to run free, despite its taste for certain human crops.
A religion has grown up around the concept of the symbiotic triad in the past 400 years.
- Its central tenets enjoin cooperation and harmonious living, so the theology has a more or less calming influence on the culture.
History & Background (Dossier)
A non-industrial, agricultural world in the Keum Subsector of the Massilia Sector.
Imperial High (Landed) Nobility
Kaflowe, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of three members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.
- It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
- It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
- It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial baron.
References & Contributors (Sources)
- Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 11
- MegaTraveller Knightfall in Article: "Library data"
- Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com