Talak (world)
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| Talak/Cabala (Far Frontiers 1537) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | D687839-6
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | G7 III | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
Characteristics: eight small, equatorial continents. Most land is rugged, 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) . Talak is inhabited throughout the equatorial regions by humans of Vilani descent - Tech Level approximately 6.
History
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 acce pt 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 her present level of technonlgy. 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.
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