Tinisutta (world)
Tinisutta/Isi Ahto (Gushemege 2916) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | C679426-A
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | M1 V M2 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 3 |
Tinisutta is a nonindustrial world, that requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
- In a technological universe, societies without industrial capability generally suffer as nearly all manufactured and high tech goods must be brought in at significant cost.
- As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
- It is a member of the Lancian Cultural Region, a sub-polity of the Third Imperium, located in the Isi Ahto Subsector of Gushemege Sector.
- A small community of Graytch are resident on the world.
- Tinisutta is located on the Vilani Main.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)
Tinisutta is a binary star system.
- Both are red main sequence stars.
Binary Solar System
Tinisutta Binary Star System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Tinisutta M1 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.5 3620 - 3660 0.08839 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0023 0.0247 0.31 - 0.59 0.23 2.3 Orbit # * * 1 0 5 Remarks None Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Tinisutta M2 V
Secondary Main Sequence 0.44 3470 - 3560 0.0565 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0021 0.0197 0.25 - 0.48 0.21 2.1 Orbit # * * 1 0 4 Remarks None
System Data
The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:
- The mainworld.
- x10 secondary rocky worlds.
- x3 gas giants.
Mainworld Data
Mainworld Size (S)
Tinisutta is a Meso World between 8,800km and 10,400km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.6G and 0.8G. The horizon will appear about 4.4km away.
Mainworld Atmosphere (A)
Tinisutta has a pressure of 0.71 to 1.49 atmospheres. While a Standard Atmosphere does not require survival gear this atmosphere also contains an unusual taint such as such as disease, a hazardous gas mix, pollutants, or sulfur compounds which requires the use of a Filter Mask. Some taints may require more protective equipment. TL–3 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.
Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)
Tinisutta has 85-95% of its surface covered by liquid water with a few small continents, and a number of islands and archipelagos. Dry land is limited. Wilderness refueling is possible.
Mainworld Geography and Topography
No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.
(Blank map, predominantly watery world.)
History & Background (Dossier)
World Starport (St)
Tinisutta has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which includes amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.
World Population (P)
Tinisutta has a population of 30,000 sophonts (tens of thousands).
- This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
- Around 95% of the population is made up of Lancians and other sophonts.
- About 5% of the population (approximately 1500 individuals) consists of Graytch.
World Languages
The following languages are most commonly heard:
- Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
- Ga-ray-cha, the primary language of the Graytch.
- Kehuu, the primary Lancian language, as common on the worlds of the Cultural Region as Anglic or Vilani.
- Ushi, a language used throughout Gushemege Sector.
- Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
World Technology Level (T)
Tinisutta 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 (G)
Tinisutta 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 (L)
Tinisutta has a moderate level with laws covering many areas of government and interaction. These laws are simple enough that most people can act as their own advocate, though for serious issues a professional is recommended. Law enforcement officials will be present, but not in great numbers. All firearms except shotguns, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.
- Graytch legal codes treat almost all crime as an example of mental illness, and hand out banishment as one of their most substantial punishments.
Imperial High (Landed) Nobility (N)
Tinisutta, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Nobility overseeing the world.
Trade Data
- Importance: 0 (unimportant)
World Economy
- Resources: 9 (descriptor)
- Labor: 3 (thousands)
- Infrastructure: 3 (very limited)
- Efficiency: -1 (average)
World Culture
- Heterogenity: 3 (monolithic)
- Acceptance: 4 (extremely aloof)
- Strangeness: 4 (somewhat distinct)
- Symbols: 9 (somewhat abstract)
World Timeline
Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:
- circa -250,000: the Ancients transplant humans onto the world of Kukhun.
- -9235: the Vilani discover jump drive technology, and over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space. The Kukhunen culture acquires jump technology from these wanderers.
- circa -5400: the Vilani Consolidation Wars - the Kukhunen region is eventually conquered.
- -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka claims and settles worlds across the region.
- -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars.
- -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
- -1776 to 0: the Long Night. There is widespread regression within the area and some worlds become barren.
- circa -1700: the reemergent Kukhunen region gradually collapses into civil war.
- -1200: the Lancian movement rises to dominance on Kukhun and within Kukhunen space. Few ships are available throughout the period but limited contact is maintained.
- -143: the Lancians gain modern jump technology from Sylean traders and use it to establish the Lancian Confederation.
- The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded. There are frictions with the Lancians.
- 76-84: the Vilani Pacification Campaign results in the absorbtion of the Confederation.
- 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
- 604-622: the Civil War.
- 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
- 639: the Lancian Cultural Region is established.
- 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
- 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M), (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), various pages. (Library data entries)
- John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 11 Library Data (N-Z), (Game Designers Workshop, 1982), various pages. (Library data entries)
- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), page 13. (Chart locating the world but no further data)
- James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), pages 11, 48, 49. (Historical overview)
- David Burden. "Contact: Lancians" Alien Realms, (1992), Volume 2 Issue 2, pages 8-13 (via HIWG). (The Lancians)
- Leighton Piper. "Contact: Lancians." Signal-GK 04 (1992): pages 4-7. (The Lancians)
- Marc Miller. T4 First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), page 22. (World details circa the Year 0)
- Timothy B. Brown. T4 Aliens Archive (Imperium Games, 1996). (The Graytch)
- Martin Dougherty. Bearers of the Flame (Avenger Enterprises, 2006), page 22. (World details circa the year 1248)
- Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), pages 212-213. (The Lancians)
- Author & Contributor: David Burden of the HIWG. (Extensive development of the sector)
- A full list of contributors can be found here.
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com