Talak (world)

Talak/Cabala (Far Frontiers 1537)
Classic Era (1116)	D687839-6 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 8 Moderate (400 million) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G7 III
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Talak is a pre-agricultural, moderate population rich garden world with over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts in population size.

• Garden worlds are known for their near-ideal utopian environments conducive to most sophonts, plants, animals, and other forms of life.
• It is a pre-agricultural world with an environment suitable for large scale agricultural and livestock industries that have not yet been widely developed.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
• 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 Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Cabala Subsector of Far Frontiers Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

There are two inhabited worlds here -- Talak and Vahjdi.

Monostellar System

Talak Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Nijet G7 III	Primary	Giant		3.52	4400 - 5400	83
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.12096	0.75566	7.24 - 11.81	12.096	120.96
	Orbit #	0	2	7	7	11

System Data

The second planet, Talak, is much more astrographically ordinary than Vahjdi. It has eight small equatorial continents and a decidedly cool climate. It was split among several warring nations until unified in 1097, after which it unexpectedly developed a space program to invade and occupy the inhabited portion of Vahjdi.

Mainworld Data

Planet II - primary inhabited planet of the Talak system. Orbital radius 4284000 km. Orbital period 78 standard days. Rotational period 6.78 days. Diameter 10899 Km. Density 1.05. Surface Gravity .89 G.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

Talak has eight small, equatorial continents. Most land is rugged and mountainous, with narrow fjords and numerous glaciers. Talak is at the outer boundary of its star's habitable zone (mean equatorial temperature 8°+/- 10° C) .

Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

Talak is inhabited throughout the equatorial regions by humans of Vilani descent, at approximately TL-6.

World Starport

Talak has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Population (P)

Talak has a population of 400,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).

• The population consists entirely of Humans, of Vilani biological origin.

World Languages

Several, with Vilani roots.

• Klehau is a language used by the nation of Kartuk. A harsh language, it was forced on other nations conquered by Kartuk.
• The name "Talak" means "Grey Death".

World Technology Level (T)

Talak possesses a Technology Level of TL–6.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fission power generation, advanced water and wind generation of electricity.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, early ATV's, and dedicated AFV's.
  • Water: Amphibious vehicles, improved submersibles, and early SCUBA gear.
  • Air: Early jet aircraft and rotorcraft VTOL's.
  • Space: Early unmanned rocket delivery systems and early manned orbital rockets.

World Government (G)

Talak is governed by Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy. A single family or small group provides the leadership and important positions in the government. These positions are inherited by member of the group or their family members. The organization may be monarchy, with titles passed to family members. Or a plutocracy where inheritance of the family fortune includes government position. Or the organization may be more typical organization with positions of power inherited.

• The nation of Kartuk recently annexed all other governments on Talak.

World Law (L)

Talak has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All blade weapons and firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

World Military

Elite combat legions are formed for internal security missions. The Golden Legion is an example.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

Historical Data

Talak was, until recently, a collection of rival states at war with one another. Human occupation of the system goes back at least two thousand years, probably to early human colonizing efforts in the region, efforts that proved abortive and resulted in a scattering of technically primitive lost colonies in several local systems.

Talak's internecine wars ended ten years ago, when one of the more powerful states, named Kartuk, developed primitive fission weapons and broke the military stalemate. Talak is now united under a senate of Kartukan military officers led by a Triumvirate elected from the senate's own ranks.

As with all dictatorships faced with peace, Kartuk needed some outside foe to unify the people in purpose and willingness to accept hardship. The technology which won the war was marshaled toward the conquest of space, and soon fleets of primitive transports were making the crossing to Vahjdi (world), bringing civilization and unity to the barbarians discovered there.

This development shocked FDI observers; no one thought Talak capable of such an undertaking at its present level of technology. Talak and Vahjdi have similar orbital velocities and pass, at their closets, within several million kilometers of one another. About every two standard years, the two worlds are quite close for almost six months and a crossing made by chemical rockets takes just a few weeks.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References

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