Kraan (world)
| Kraan/Drexilthar (Reaver's Deep 1828) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | C501456-8
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary | M3 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kraan is an icy, nonindustrial vacuum world, warranting hazardous environment precautions.
- Its surface is ice-capped with little or no atmosphere and nearly all of its water frozen.
- It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
- This die back world was once settled and developed, but the inhabitants have either died off or left leaving behind the ruins and remnants of their civilization.
- This is a frozen world, with a climate of extremely low temperatures.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Drexilthar Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector.
- This world contains an archaeological site with suspected remnants of the defunct Iltharan Empire.
Description / Astrography & Planetology
No information yet available.
Monostellar System
Kraan Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Akeen M3 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.37 3270 - 3430 0.03081 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0017 0.0146 0.18 - 0.35 0.17 1.7 Orbit # * * 0 0 4
System Data
Some class Akeen as part of a trinary star system, though by most classifications it simply shares a hex with the close double Achwan and Lagirr (spectral classes A7III and F5V).
- Double A, Achwan, spectral class A7III. ICN S4K0208A7III. Mass 8.6 standard. Stellar diameter 4.66 standard. Luminosity 166 standard.
- Double B, Lagirr (orbit #2), spectral class F5V. ICN S4K0208F5V, Mass 1.3 standard. Stellar diameter 1.4 standard. Luminosity, 2.9 standard.
Primary: Akeen, spectral class M3 V.
Akeen Planetary System: Ten major bodies.
- One Inhabited world (Kraan, IX).
- Three gas giants, two planetoid belts in system.
Mainworld Data
- Mean orbital radius: 15,013.86 million kilometers (100.36 AU).
- Period: 319.54 years
- No satellites
- Diameter: 8,594 kilometers
- Density: 1.09
- Mass: 0.266 standard
- Mean surface gravity: 0.68 G.
- Rotation period: 16 hours, 48 minutes, 19 seconds.
- Axial inclination: 4°14'18.2"
- Albedo: .22
- Orbital eccentricity: .25
- Surface atmospheric pressure: 0.001atm; composition – near vacuum conditions with traces of methane-ammonia in planetary 'summer' (periastron).
- Hydrographic percentage: 16%, composition, frozen water and ammonia ice.
- Mean periastron temperature: -155.7°C.
- Mean apastron temperature: -182.3°C.
Mainworld Geography & Topography
No information yet available.
Mainworld Map
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Native Lifeforms
No information yet available.
History & Background / Dossier
Circling at a staggering distance away from its star, Kraan is an unlikely site for a colony. Heavy metals attracted the colonists, for Kraan abounds in various radioactives and other useful mineral wealth. The Dakaar Corporation recently bought out four smaller companies which had held leases to assorted sites and Dakaar Minerals division is beginning to gear up for extensive changes to the planet's traditional organization and operation.
The excavations sit right on top of a deep vein of high-grade lanthanum ore. When previous companies held Kraan, they and the colonial government had permitted the scientists to study and restore the site at their leisure, recognizing the historical significance of this thousand-year-old archeological relic. Shortly after Dakaar Minerals bought out the other companies, however, they did a fresh survey, noted the presence of the ore and gave the scientists six months to pack up and leave the area clear for strip mining.
Naturally, the colonial government disagreed with this ultimatum, and has attempted to back up the scientists. But Dakaar has a long reach, and it is generally believed that the best the government or the scientists can do is delay the inevitable.
World Starport
Kraan 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.
World Technology Level
Kraan possesses a Technology Level of TL–8.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics, improved telephones, and satellite communication and data networks.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Improved geothermal and improved batteries.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Advanced automobiles.
- Water: Triphibians and early artificial gills.
- Air: Improved helicopters and hypersonic jets.
- Space: Space shuttles, early space stations, and improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
World Government
Kraan is governed by a Feudal Technocracy. Society divides itself based on the technical requirements of the society. Each of these functions are granted as a fief to an individual or group. Leadership of these fiefs determines the head of the government.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts.
World Law Level
No information yet available.
World Military
No information yet available.
World Economy
The colony on Kraan is largely independent of the mining operations, though a significant portion of the economy is devoted to sporting the mining community. Kraan's position in the subsector brings a fair amount of business through the class-C starport, much of it bound for or originating from the freeport at Drellesarr (Reaver's Deep 2029). Piracy is not uncommon in the system, with a market for hijacked goods only 2 parsecs away. A favorite tactic of such pirates is to lurk in the upper layers of a gas giant's atmosphere to pounce on craft attempting wilderness refueling.
Trade Data
No information yet available.
World Demographics
No information yet available.
World Culture
A source of considerable friction on Kraan is the scientific research station at the edge of the shadowland mountains. This station was first erected six years ago to study an archeological find of tremendous potential historical value, an intact base apparently set up by the Iltharans when Drexilthar (Reaver's Deep 1826) empire was at its peak. it has been described as "a treasurehouse of Reaver-era technology and knowledge", and it is now threatened with destruction.
The research base, staffed by scholars from Falkayne College, Grendal, and Andrew University, Stuart (Reavers' Deep 1716), has kept the destruction of the site under injunction from Dakaar Minerals for 15 years.
Languages
- Anglic
- Common Iltharan (the world name, as well as that of its star, is from Common Iltharan)
- Gheldaght
Urbanization
No information yet available.
Historical Data
No information yet available.
World Timeline
These are some of the more important historical events that have affected this world's subsector:
- (-1776 to 0): Long Night
- (-1648 to -112): Reaver Period
- (-1008): Founding of the Iltharan Empire
- (-371): Principality of Caledon founded
- (-86 to -80): Iltharan War
- (-84): Confederacy of Duncinae founded
- (0): Third Imperium founded
- (268): Fall of the Iltharan Empire
- (380): Peace of Ftahalr
- (517): Carrillian Assembly founded
- (1080): Languljigee sophonts discovered by Dakaar Corporation
UWP Listing
No information yet available.
References
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- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 27. (dot map)
- James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11. (dot map)
- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 11, 50. (dot map)
- Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), 30.
- J. Andrew Keith. A Pilot's Guide to the Drexilthar Subsector (Gamelords, 1984), 56.
- J. Andrew Keith. Escape (Marischal Adventures, 1987), 9. (UWP)
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com