St. Hilaire (world)

St. Hilaire/New Islands (Reft 0930)
Classic Era (1116)	B579763-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 9 Wet World 90% Population 7 Moderate (0 million) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP

style="width: 220px; height: 250px;"

Jump map from Travellermap.com

St. Hilaire was one of the last worlds settled by the old sublight ships that connected the Islands. After the colony was recontacted by Serendip, it has had a hard time preventing domination by more powerful offworld parties. Despite a diverse and lucrative agricultural economy, despite low temperatures, the need for offworld capital and export markets drove the world first into Serendip's orbit, and then Esperanza's.

Despite this subjugation, Esperanza's low antebellum tech level slowed contact and its planetary governor enjoyed an unthinkable amount of autonomy; this is even more true today, as it takes a round trip of eight weeks for orders and replies to reach the mother world. Esperanzan sovereignty is now paid mere lip service and the world's de facto independence has been reinforced by the new Regency naval base.

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.

• DEDzone Website - Peter Gray