Universal Code

Universal Codes are a means of presenting information in a concise format that is common amongst nearly all worlds of Charted Space.

• It is a kind of metric.

Description (Specifications)

These codes tend to be human specific, notably the Imperium and the Solomani Confederation make use of them. Codes use a Hexadecimal Notation for the characters, sometimes extended through the rest of the alphabet (except for I and O) to allow single character representation of numbers up to 33. Separators (usually a -) are used to differentiate sections, and some have been extended from the original definition.

History & Background (Dossier)

A whole variety of UCs have been developed over the millennia of which some have been consistently used across many different empires, sophont species, and polities, while others have been far more limited in scope.

Selected Extant Codes

The following universal codes are defined:

• UCP: Universal Cargo Profile
• UGP: Universal Government Profile
• ULP: Universal Legal Profile
• UPP: Universal Personality Profile
• URP: Universal Religion Profile
• URP: Universal Robot Profile
• USP: Universal Ship Profile
• UTP: Universal Technological Profile
• UWP: Universal World Profile

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.

• T5 Core Rules
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science