Stern-Stern (world)

Stern-Stern/Darrian (Spinward Marches 0223) Milieu 1116 B421558-B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 5 Moderate (700 thousand) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
style="width: 220px; height: 250px;" Jump map from Travellermap.com
System Details
Primary	M0 V M3 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Feudal technocracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	565B
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	11
Economic Extension	845+1 Resources 8 Moderate Labor 4 Moderate (70 thousand) Infrastructure 5 Limited Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	160
GWP (BCr)	1
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	1,067
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	1,105
Port passengers (annual)	1,000

Stern-Stern has a tainted unbreathably thin atmosphere and very little surface water. The system has a population between 10,000 and 10 million, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a member of Darrian Confederation in the Darrian Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. 100% of the world's population is the Minor Human Race Daryen.

Stern-Stern (world)/Darrian (Spinward Marches 0223) New Era B421688-D Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 6 Moderate (3 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	575D
Army Size (BEs)	1
Economic Details
Technology Level	13
Economic Extension	855-4 Resources 8 Moderate Labor 5 Moderate (300 thousand) Infrastructure 5 Limited Efficiency -4 Very poor
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	120
GWP (BCr)	5
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	1,756
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	1,100
Port employees	140
Port passengers (annual)	5,100

Era: New Era

Stern-Stern is a poor, non-agricultural, and nonindustrial hellworld with a population struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often form intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
• It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them. It is a member of Darrian Confederation in the Darrian Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. This world is an Interface world, with a quarantine inspection facility for all ships. 100% of the world's population is the Minor Human Race Daryen.

Description / Astrography & Planetology

No information yet available.

Binary Solar System

Stern-Stern Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Stern-Stern M0 V	Primary	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
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Stern-Stern M3 V	Secondary	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

No information yet available.

Mainworld Data

The atmosphere is breathable but unpleasant enough that most residences have their own life support systems.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background / Dossier

No information yet available.

World Starport

Stern-Stern has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Technology Level

Stern-Stern possesses a Technology Level of TL–11 or TL-B 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 & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-2.

World Government

Stern-Stern 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.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

Stern-Stern specializes in heavy industry with considerable robotic help in the factories.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Demographics

No information yet available.

World Culture

No information yet available.

Urbanization

No information yet available.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

Other Data

Stern-Stern was not one of the original Pre-Maghiz colonies of the Darrian Confederation, but was settled in the aftermath of the First Frontier War. The system, then known as 247-461, had originally been bypassed due to inadequate surveys, and except for a starport, had been ignored by the Confederation and its economic planners. The world was cursed with a very thin atmosphere, and possessed few obvious resources that would make it attractive to outside settlement.

This changed after a Sternmetal Horizons survey discovered in 576 that the world had extensive deposits of Iron, Nickel and Aluminum in large ore bodies buried under its extensive plains. Military tensions and conflict with the Zhodani, and the massive initial investment outlays required for subsurface mining delayed colonization until 603, and the Second Frontier War delayed actual exploitation of the deposits until 625.

Sternmetal, with assistance from the Darrian government, sank several deep shafts, some of up to 10kms deep, to reach the ore bodies. In doing so, the company had to compromise safety. The digging of deep shafts, in an atmosphere under severe underground pressure, on a world with very little air pressure to begin with, was a dangerous and expensive undertaking. Death due to the bends, or blowouts at the surface level, claimed a number of lives, and gave the world an unpleasant reputation. Sternmetal soon suffered a labor shortage, as skilled mining workers developed an understandable reluctance to work in the mines.

As production dipped, Sternmetal approached its fellow Megacorporation Naasirka for assistance in automating the world's production. Through a separate holding company called Sternmetal Automation, the two companies pooled their efforts and constructed a huge network of automated factories and mining complexes for extraction, processing, refinement and machining the mines output for eventual export. These complexes were probably the largest robotic factories ever constructed in the Marches before the Collapse, and still rank among the largest still extant. A major drawback was the pollution generated as a byproduct of various mining and industrial processes, but the two Sternmetal divisions (which is where the world name originates) profited enough to pay their employees very good wages and continued to deliver massive amounts of vital metals to both the Third Imperium and the Confederation.

The world was the target of major Zhodani raids during the later Frontier Wars, and of an attempted Sword World invasion during the False War, but it has remained in Darrian possession for its entire history.

But because of these factories, the Collapse and Virus posed a special threat. A controversy developed between the company and local authorities, between the Regency wanting to shut them down and the Darrians wanting to keep them running, and within their own governments between security services and industrial planning agencies. In the end, the now renamed Horizons was able to retain the factories, as the authorities came to the conclusion that more would be lost through shutting them down, and risking shortages and price hikes in resources vital to the Quarantine, than whatever viral threat they posed to the Spinward Extents.

In order to keep the factories, the company agreed to eliminate outside communication links, creating a totally self-contained and airgapped communication and control system placed in fortified military-style command centers. Horizons beefed up security around the facility, though more against outside intrusion by agitators and anti-virus radicals, than against actual Viral infection. The company still has the confidence of most of the local population, and it has eliminated most of the old silicon-based systems that made the world vulnerable, but there has been concerted action by offworld protesters and action groups to disrupt or impede local production. And while the company still enjoys the confidence of the Darrian government, a number of neighboring world governments and their citizens have staged frequent protests and passed disruptive resolutions against Horizons and the Stern-Stern world government.

References & Contributors / Sources

This article is missing content for one or more detailed sections. Additional details are required to complete the article. You can help the Traveller Wiki by expanding it.

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 W. Miller, Robert Parker, Nancy Parker, Matt Renner. Darrians (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 23,32.Pete Nash. Darrians (Mongoose Publishing, 2010), 23,32.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 22.
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 44.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 46.Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 46.
• External Link: BARD-OPAL 9527 - Peter Gray
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science