Khtearie (world)

Khtearie/Drinsaar (Reaver's Deep 1733)
Classic Era (1116)	C595778-5 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 9 Dense (tainted) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 7 Moderate (60 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	4

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Khtearie is an agricultural world with the potential to become an industrial power.

• 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.
• As a preindustrial world, this planet cannot yet manufacture enough high-technology resources to support a modern, star-faring society. Having to import many manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• This is a "low technology" world with technology competencies well below technology standards for Charted Space.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Drinsaar Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector.

• This world has also been known as Khtearle.
• About 60% of the population is composed of Aslan.
• About 40% of the population is composed of humans and other sophonts.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This system is part of the Drinsaar Loop.

Monostellar System

Khtearie Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Khtearie M2 V	Primary	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 Lifeform: Lightning Red

The Lightning Reds are a large, two meter long, swimming omnivore reptilian native to Khtearle. Although they will eat the underwater tubers and bulbs of the oceans of Khtearle, they much prefer the taste of flesh.

• The Lightning Reds are air breathers but can live for hours under the water. They can sometimes be found sunning themselves on top of the huge fifty meter wide water lilies that grow on the continental shelves of the world. More often than not they are encountered underwater, usually to the detriment of unprepared travellers. The Lightning Reds are extremely fast and absolutely vicious underwater.
• Lightning Reds are long and thin, with eight large, but short, webbed appendages running the sides of their bodies. These webbed appendages also consist of four razor sharp claws used for ripping up their prey. This attack often disables their prey enough for the Reds to finish them off with a snap or two of their needle sharp teeth. The Reds’ get their name from the crimson colour of their scales, which allows them to blend in completely with lilies and other large water plants of Khtearle.
• Lightning Reds are only ever encountered by themselves or in pairs. The female Reds’ lay four crimson eggs in amongst the lilies bulbs every five local years. This makes them extremely difficult to find as the lilies crimson bulbs always comes out in sets of four. The parent Reds’ then abandon the eggs to their own devices.
• The Lightning Reds attack their prey by stealth, waiting in the lilies and ambushing their prey as they happen by. This stealth attack is what attracts the Aslan of Khtearle to hunting the creatures. It is considered a rite of passage for a young Aslan male to go out, hunt and kill his first Lightning Reds. This hunting has meant that the Reds have disappeared entirely from some ocean areas of Khtearle, but the world is large enough, and the population of Aslan small enough, not to endanger the Reds’ populations.

History & Background (Dossier)

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science