Narsil (world)

Narsil/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 0927) Milieu 1116 B574A55-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population A High (20 billion) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
style="width: 220px; height: 250px;" Jump map from Travellermap.com
System Details
Primary	G6 IV M0 V
Worlds	10
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Feudal technocracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	8F38
Army Size (BEs)	15000
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	J9F+3 Resources J Extremely abundant Labor 9 High (2 billion) Infrastructure F Very comprehensive Efficiency +3 Improved
Importance Extension	5
Resource Units	6,885
GWP (BCr)	102,480
World Trade Number	5.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	62,465
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	19,000,000
Port employees	22,935
Port passengers (annual)	1,195,600

Narsil is an industrial world with a tainted atmosphere. The system has a population over one billion. It is a member of Sword Worlds Confederation in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Sword Worlds. This world supports a Sword Worlds Military Base and the system supports a Sword Worlds Naval Base.

Astrography & Planetology

Narsil is a member of the Spinward Main.

Narsil is an unusual planet, orbiting a rare M0 II giant star. Isildur was once a typical F7 V main sequence star, but about 1,500,000 years ago it started fusing helium in its core. The star then expanded far into its inner system and became much more luminous.

Any rocky planets Isildur once had are incinerated or nearly molten, but many of the icy bodies in the outer system have melted in the new sunlight. Until this time, Narsil was merely a frozen ball of gas, water, and rock, in an eccentric orbit that took it between 80 and 120 AU from the star. Suddenly, Narsil was in Isildur’s new habitable zone. The surface around the equator melted, creating a central ocean that has been slowly growing ever since with Isildur’s increasing heat.

Binary Solar System

Narsil Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Isildur G6 IV	Primary	Giant		2.06	4600 - 5500	4.854
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.02698	0.18274	1.75 - 2.85	2.698	26.98
	Orbit #	*	0	5	5	8
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Elendil M0 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0027	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.27	2.7
	Orbit #	*	*	2	0	5

History & Background (Dossier)

Narsil has long been the industrial powerhouse of the Sword Worlds, a status that will be difficult to keep in the wake of the new wave of environmentalism. Among the population, crowded into dirty cities, there is a great deal of ill-feeling about the environmental laws. If the factories close or change their labor-intensive, wasteful policies, then there will be mass unemployment. The populace would apparently rather suffer unbreathable air, ill health and perhaps an early death than lose their jobs. The rising tide of resentment has led to vandalism and violence on the streets. The formation of a special police force as part of the military has led to a lamentable sentients’ rights record, and breeds more violence. The question is not if Narsil’s society is going to rip itself apart, but when.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This article has metadata.

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 16-17.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 44-45. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 68.
• Paul Drye, Hans Rancke-Madsen, Robert Prior. Sword Worlds (Steve Jackson Games, 2004), 29-.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 109. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 89-92,96-97. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. Sword Worlds (Mongoose Publishing, 2020), .
• Tony Jones - The Narsil system - Memory Lapse Megatraveller campaign