Turku (world)

Turku/Reach (Crucis Margin 2329)
Milieu 0	A442899-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 8 Moderate (100 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
Classic Era (1116)	A542899-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 8 Moderate (300 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G2 V M3 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	0

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Turku is a poor, moderate population pre-industrial hellworld, with over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts 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.
• This world would like to become a major industrial powerhouse in the subsector, but lacks the population and resources to build an adequate workforce and industrial business sector.
• This is a cold world with an overall climate that is at the lower temperature range of human-congruous sophont endurance.
• This world is also the overall capital of an interstellar government with the massive extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or over technology standards for Charted Space.
• It is a member of the The Reach in the Reach Subsector of Crucis Margin Sector.

• This world-system hosts a Naval Base, usually associated with military starships, which may be located on or off-world.
• A little under 10% of the population is composed of Hivers.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

The Turku Wastes: Home to the Reach's only Naval Base, within the Reach Subsector of the Crucis Margin Sector the 'self defense' squadron made quite a name for themselves.

• The port became the headquarters for a band of infamous corsairs. What was interesting is the dramatic similarities between a particular light escort vessel ordered for fleet operations and the most commonly encountered pirate raider. The Turku Class Light Escort are an unwelcome sight to merchant captains.

Binary Solar System

Turku Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Turku G2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1	5720 - 5770	1
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	4	1	6
	Remarks
	None
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Turku 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
	Remarks
	None

History & Background (Dossier)

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References & Contributors (Sources)

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.

• Classic Traveller Alien Module 2: K'kree (named but no further data)
• Classic Traveller Alien Module 7: Hivers (named but no further data)
• Classic Traveller Judges Guild Crucis Margin (Non-canon)
• T20 QuikLink Interactive Gateway to Destiny
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science