Tarsus (SM 1138) (world)

Tarsus/District 268 (Spinward Marches 1138) Milieu 1116 B584620-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 6 Moderate (2 million) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 0 No Law Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K9 V
Worlds	7
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Participating democracy
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	1915
Army Size (BEs)	15
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	A57-1 Resources A Abundant Labor 5 Moderate (200 thousand) Infrastructure 7 Generally available Efficiency -1 Average
Importance Extension	3
Resource Units	315
GWP (BCr)	11
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	930
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	2,000
Port employees	195
Port passengers (annual)	46,500

Tarsus is a rich and agricultural production world with a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system supports a population in the millions of sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a client state of Third Imperium in the District 268 Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Tarsus (SM 1138) (world)/Plankwell (Spinward Marches 1138) New Era B584620-B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 6 Moderate (4 million) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 0 No Law Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Participating democracy
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	1918
Army Size (BEs)	12
Economic Details
Technology Level	11
Economic Extension	A57-3 Resources A Abundant Labor 5 Moderate (400 thousand) Infrastructure 7 Generally available Efficiency -3 Poor
Importance Extension	3
Resource Units	245
GWP (BCr)	12
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	1,535
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	2,000
Port employees	365
Port passengers (annual)	85,520

Era: New Era

Tarsus is a rich and agricultural production world with a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system supports a population in the millions of sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a client state of Regency of Deneb in the Plankwell Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

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Monostellar System

Tarsus Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Tarsus Primary 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
	Remarks
	None

System Data

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Mainworld Data

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Mainworld Atmosphere

Tarsus has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

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Mainworld Map

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Native Lifeforms: Nobble

Harvesting nobbles (large migratory grazers) is the primary occupation of 10% of the planet’s 2.332 million inhabitants, and an important sector of the Tarsan economy. There are over 4000 nobble ranches circling a vast expanse of stepland named Nob Plain, the average distance between them being 50 km. Nobble ranching is regulated by the Ag Market, which awards a finite number of contracts per year, each for 100 animals. The nobbles are culled while the vast herds are on the move, and as they average 20 km/hour, this is done as quickly as possible so that the carcasses may be efficiently processed. Once killed, the animals are skinned, their carcasses dressed, and the meat and hides taken to a pre-designated rendezvous point to be picked up by shuttle.

History & Background (Dossier)

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World Starport

Tarsus 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

Tarsus possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A 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: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Government

Tarsus is governed by a Participatory Democracy where eligible voters determine laws and policy. What determines an eligible voter varies. There may be smaller councils or regional bodies to write the policies voted on. Leadership of the government and all members of the bureaucracy are determined by voting population.

World Law Level

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World Military

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World Economy

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Trade Data

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World Demographics

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World Culture

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World Language/s

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Urbanization

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World Infrastructure

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Historical Data

It was settled between 450 and 462 by 19,125 exiles from Fornice. The venture was well organized and the colony avoided any significant technological regression. Tarsus achieved independence from Fornice in 502.

The population grew slowly but steadily over the centuries, supplemented from time to time by immigrants from other worlds. Among them were the members of the Tizonian 3rd Lift Regiment and their families, who came to Tarsus in 625 fleeing war-crime accusations, and settled in an empty region called Regiment. Their descendants have since been integrated into the mainstream of Tarsan society.

In 780, Tarsus joined Motmos (Spinward Marches 1340) and Tarkine (Spinward Marches 1434) in establishing the Ag Worlds Combine, a loose cartel that was designed to halt a spiral of mutually-destructive price competition in the lucrative agricultural export markets of Forine and Collace. It supplies food to much of District 268, which includes many worlds whose inhospitable and/or degraded environments cannot support conventional agriculture. The Ag Worlds Combine's headquarters is located on Motmos.

In the same year that the Ag Worlds Combine was established, large numbers of refugees fleeing the newly-established religious dictatorship on neighboring Pavabid (Spinward Marches 1238) settled on Tarsus. Another wave of immigrants arrived in the early 800s as people fleeing the Psionics Suppressions sought refuge beyond the Imperial border. Due in large part to the presence of their descendants, Tarsus exhibits little of the psionophobia found on most other worlds in the Spinward Marches. Indeed, the megacorporation SuSAG operates a large psi drug manufacturing plant on Tarsus.

In 1110, a group of primitive humans were discovered living deep in the Tangle Wald, an inaccessible forest far from the main Tarsan settlements. These turned out to be the descendants of a Sword Worlds petroleum mining colony that had been established in -104 only to be abandoned to its own devices just two years later when the outbreak of the War of the First Rebellion led to the collapse of the Sacnoth Dominate. Evidence found over a century later at the original colony site led to the erroneous conclusion that its last survivors had died off around -60. The Forest People, as they are called, were declared wards of the Tarsan government in 1113.

World Timeline

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UWP Listing

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References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Tarsus (Game Designers Workshop, 1983), .
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), .
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 49.
• GURPS Traveller: Sword Worlds
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 75.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science