Shershe (world)

Shershe/Gadde (Dagudashaag 2728) Milieu 1116 C540874-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 8 Moderate (500 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K9 V M0 V
Worlds	10
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Balkanization
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	6736
Army Size (BEs)	200
Economic Details
Technology Level	8
Economic Extension	C77-3 Resources C Very abundant Labor 7 Moderate (50 million) Infrastructure 7 Generally available Efficiency -3 Poor
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	412
GWP (BCr)	732
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	6,435
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	500,000
Port employees	505
Port passengers (annual)	9,500

Shershe has a thin, tainted atmosphere and a complete lack of surface water, making it poorly suited to sophont habitation. The system has a population of hundreds of millions of sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Gadde Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Shershe, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight and the fiefdoms of a marquis and a viscount. All three are members of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. During the Long Night this world was named Luursaam As.

Astrography and planetology

Shershe was once a pleasant little world with a breathable thin atmosphere, thirty percent of the planet's surface covered with water and a mild climate; it could boast a population of nearly three-quarters of a billion souls.

Binary Solar System

Shershe Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Shershe K9 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.59	3850 - 3930	0.15775
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0028	0.0329	0.41 - 0.78	0.28	2.8
	Orbit #	*	*	2	0	5
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Shershe 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 and background

In 953 fractionalization of the government into a small number of aggressive, competing states led to a full-scale global conflict. No weapon or means was spared in the attempts of all sides to annihilate each other; all that is worst in war was used; nuclear, biological and chemical. By 979 the population had crashed to 12 million, virtually all the surface water was lost or heavily contaminated and all agricultural (and industrial) capacity was destroyed.

It was only direct rapid intervention by the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service in delivering massive food relief that prevented the remaining population collapsing into oblivion. Many observers wondered why the relief came at all as there was no effort to at least initiate any kind of peace process and thus prevent the disastrous later stages of the war. The war ground to a halt shortly after the IISS intervention in 980 and the population has steadily grown back to near its pre-war level (following Imperial reinvestment in the world's infrastructure and industry). Yet the devastating effects on the world's ecosphere can be seen. The atmosphere still has taint classification - there are chemical and radioactive dust clouds, which scour some of the wilderness areas. Occasionally they drift into the inhabited regions forcing drastic public health measures and evacuation from affected sites.

All attempts at reclaiming water trapped under the planet's surface to relieve the parched landscape have been fruitless. This problem in addition to the increased competition for the scant remaining resources threatens to open up the old divisions and rivalries into renewed conflict.

References and contributors

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.

• Jae Campbell. "Library Data: Gadde." Signal-GK 06 (1993): 17. via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 85.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 315-316.