Scaramouche (world)

Scaramouche/Harlequin (Solomani Rim 2509)
Classic Era (1115)	A7C6503-A Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere C Exotic (insidious) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 5 Moderate (300 thousand) Government 0 No Government structure Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V M1 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	0

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Scaramouche is a nonindustrial fluid world.

• A fluid world has an oceanic geography of a liquid other than water such as ammonia, methane, hydrocarbons, or other exotic liquids.
• 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 dangerous world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions make it dangerous to visitors.
• This is a tidally-locked world, which does not rotate as most planets do. It has one face locked to the gravity source, usually a star, and the other locked away from the gravity source, making for extremely warm weather on one side and cold extremes on the other.
• This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Harlequin Subsector of Solomani Rim Sector in the Domain of Sol.

Description / Astrography & Planetology

Scaramouche is a non-industrial fluid ocean world located in Harlequin Subsector of the Solomani Rim.

Binary Solar System

Scaramouche Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Scaramouche M2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.4258	2400 - 3300	0.027
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0044	0.01358	0.13 - 0.21	0.44	4.4
	Orbit #	*	*	0	1	6
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Scaramouche M1 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.4574	2600 - 3500	0.033
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00475	0.01516	0.15 - 0.24	0.475	4.75
	Orbit #	*	*	0	1	6

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

2509 Scaramouche (Imperial) - Amber Zone

Starport: Class V.

Diameter: 7,200 miles (11,500 km). Gravity: 0.90g.
Atmosphere: Corrosive.
Hydrographics: 60%.
Climate: Warm.
Population: 310,000.
Government: Anarchy.
Control Level: 2.
Tech Level: 9.
World Trade Number: 4.

System Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Data

Scaramouche is a tide-locked world with a nitrogen and oxygen atmosphere that would be breathable were it not for the presence of a significant amount of free chlorine as well as hydrochloric acid vapor and even complex chlorine compounds such as phosgene.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

Scaramouche’s oceans and rivers are a weak solution of hydrochloric acid and chlorine “bleach.”

Mainworld Map

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

The planet's simplest plant life, the equivalent of Terran algae, are able to break chlorine out of the salts present in seawater.

History & Background (Dossier)

Scaramouche is a backwater world of little importance, and one of the few worlds in the Rim where local longing for the "good old days" of Solomani rule remains strong enough to give rise to active unrest.

Imperial High / Landed Nobility

Scaramouche, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Nobility overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.

World Starport

Scaramouche has a Class A Starport, an excellent quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Technology Level

Scaramouche possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land & Water: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Government

Scaramouche has no central government for the world, an Anarchy. The largest governmental structure would be a family, tribe, or single clan. The largest group will be between 50 and 100 individuals, and there may be dozens to hundreds of them. This governmental structure can be stable over long periods of time if the population remains small or geographically separated.

• The system is a member of the Imperium.

World Law Level

It has been issued an Amber Zone travel advisory.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Demographics

No information yet available.

World Culture

Since the Imperial withdrawal, government on Scaramouche has varied from unstable to nonexistent. Numerous splinter groups of the local Solomani party have caused the movement to collapse from internal bickering, while no other political force has emerged. Violence is common, and resulting in the Travellers' Aid Society to designate it an Amber Zone.

Urbanization

No information yet available.

Historical Data

The planet's harsh atmospheric conditions and relative lack of value contributed significantly to the continuation of Solomani sympathies. Resistance to the presence of an Imperial governor and a brigade of marines at the starport/capital led, in 1098, to the outbreak of the so-called Unity Uprisings against the government. The uprising was largely suppressed by Acting Governor General Ringiil Urshukaan, though his methods were harsh and later repudiated by higher authority (despite Urshukaan's popularity on nearby worlds, which perceived his actions as decisive in preventing a recurrence of unrest in that portion of the sector).

The organization of the rebellion effectively collapsed after Urshukaan's capture of its major leader, Moradeyo Davis Atiyah. After the short administration of Governor Baronet Rosa Demetriou, in which attempts at reconciliation were begun, it was decided that the Imperial presence on Scaramouche would be greatly reduced. Government was formally turned over to the citizens of the planet in 1102, and the post of Governor dissolved. The majority of the garrison was withdrawn at that time.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Classic Traveller Murder on Arcturus Station
• GURPS Traveller: Rim of Fire
• Mongoose Traveller: Solomani Rim
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science