Further Development of Phlange Subsector A Comitas

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TSUKUYOMI

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An isolated society of Solomani-orgin, inhabiting a honeycombed moon, under the absolute authority of a popular tyrant.



Lacking reliable access to gravitic technology, the ‘moon men’ have adapted to their low grav subsurface environment with the aid of milkfern, a sporating protist rich in calcium and proteins.

Even with this special diet, these wan, light-boned, long-fingered people are less strong and sturdy than their Solomani forebears. Many of them display a languid grace in their body motions.



Fission reactors and solar arrays keep the buried cities and greenhouses heated, lit, and otherwise working, but the limited industrial-technical base of the world prevents the construction of any new habitats. The people have developed a culture of subordination to the collective and strict laws and regulation in order to better manage scarce resources and prevent harmful conflicts.

A meteorite impact twenty years ago destroyed the starport and the government lacks the practical ability to build a new one on the world’s outer surface, as the local factories and shops can repair but not manufacture vacc suits.





Natives STR 2D6-1 DEX 2D6+1

 

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Query--Should I leave this here or move it to IMTU?

All these worlds are on the big Traveller map. GChuck did the Phlange mapping. I detailed several other worlds in previous threads, but I'm doing it all in one place, now.

 

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The oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere of this small planet is leaking into space. A slowly dying jungle of cyclads, ferns, and lianas covers much of the surface; in other regions lie dust-lakes that can engulf starships and sere grasslands with three-meter high ground cover. An irradiated, glassy crater marks the spot of the former starport, which was destroyed in a failed rebellion against lllstar’s absentee rulers, the Proprietors of Mablag, and never rebuilt due to the expense.



Most of the population lives in a squat, ugly city built of imported plastic and locally quarried stone on the shore of a shallow, muddy lake. At the center of the settlement rises a small, pressurized ziggurat in Mablagian style, where the Colonial Agent keeps his residence and offices. The Agent’s air/rafts are located in a hangar in the upper levels (he has three at his disposal); these vehicles allow him to reach orbit if necessary for going to and from starships. What cargoes arrive otherwise, are typically dropped with chutes from low flying vessels. Illstar still receives occasional shipments of supplies from Mablag, just enough to keep the pitiful little colony a going concern. Assignment here is considered a punishment post by most servants of the Proprietors.



The great majority of the natives toil in the mines with pick and spade, digging up rare earths exported for use in Mablag’s industries*, or in the greenhouses that provide most of Illstar’s food supply. Others work as servants for the Colonial Agent and his cadre of Mablagger mercenaries. The colonial government is lazy and corrupt.





*Containers of minerals are launched into space using a mass driver and then captured for transport by orbiting ships.



Mablag’s rulers sometimes exile rivals or other undesirables to Illstar. It’s the sort of place that is easy to reach to hard to leave, more for practical reasons than because the authorities would actively prevent it.



Note on natives:

Illstarran Variant Human Race



-1 STR

Barrel-chested, light frame
Wide nostrils and froglike mouths.

Adapted to hypoxic and low-pressure environments, can function normally in very thin atmosphere but require a pressurized mask in standard or dense atmospheres.

Minor mutations are commonplace, most not disabling.




According to their scant written records and oral tradition, these people descend from a lost 'seedship' expedition sent out by the Second Imperium. After a misjump and a forced landing on Illstar, the expedition's scientists altered the germ cells and adjusted the exowombs carried on the vessel to produce humans with a better chance of long-term survival on the world.

 

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note

I don't think a couple of air/rafts and a planetside mass driver equal a starport.

As a colony, it makes sense to have some limited commerce and communication, so I had to square the X/no port with type 6 gov't.


THE 'MISSING' WORLDS
(detailed elsewhere on forums)

MABLAG

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Post in thread 'Mablag A584730—9'

Jan 6, 2022

There's the question of a magnetic field...

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CHAINE

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Thread 'Chaine Redux (full reworking)'

Dec 9, 2019

Chaine

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STARPORT C
SIZE 5
ATMOSPHERE 9 dense, tainted
HYDRO 8 shallow seas
POPULATION 5 (approx. six hundred thousand humans, several thousand Aslan)
GOVERNMENT 3 self-perpetuating oligarchy (The Executive Board)
LAW 6
TECH 6 (small manufacturing base, ag products and bio-plastics)
Dangerous bacteria infest Chaine’s soupy atmosphere. Anyone going outdoors without an antimicrobial breathing mask risks contracting a case of ‘the pinks’, a potentially life-threatening pulmonary disease.

The simple filter masks issued to Associates (slaves in all but name) malfunction after...

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HAWA

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Post in thread 'Hawa'

Aug 29, 2018

It's done!

Hawa is now IMTU!

Thanks Bwap!

Cool!

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KLINE

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Post in thread 'Retro/habitable Venus type world'

Apr 3, 2020

Here's the material timerover51 shared in the thread that got me started, taken from a public domain source on Project Gutenberg:

Very different conditions obtain on our neighbour planet, which is closer both to the Sun and to ourselves, the radiant Venus, an object of interested human attention already in ancient times. The average temperature there is calculated to about 47° C. (116.6° F.) assuming the sun constant to two calories per cubic centimeter (.061 cu. in.) per minute. The humidity is probably about six times the average of that on the Earth, or three times that in Congo...

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HESSE

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Post in thread 'inhabited rogue planet'

Jul 31, 2020

I am reminded of the famous book/movie "When Worlds Collide". In the book sequel, "After Worlds Collide", which was never made into a movie, the survivors from Earth land on the planet Zyra, which has been drifting through interstellar space for perhaps millions of years. There they discover a vast advanced civilization (maybe tech 13+?) thawing out after its endless freeze. Remarkably the machinery still works, as it sets about repairing itself. They do not find any signs of the original inhabitants, but have their hands full dealing with other problems. No more spoilers, read the...

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HERMITAGE

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Thread 'Hermitage E000100-8'

Jan 6, 2022

Hermitage E000100-8

Solar farms and radiator arrays cover much of the surface of this small, airless planetoid, apart from a five-kilometer-wide crater that serves as a landing site. A subterranean habitat module can accommodate as many as a thousand persons, but only one man calls Hermitage home.

Zhandor Yllip, ex-merc captain, discharged his guards and servants a year ago. Before the owner’s self-imposed isolation began, several staff members and guests died under suspicious circumstances. Relatives of the deceased, unsatisfied with Zhandor’s account of their family members’ deaths...

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SAUVAGE


AJAMI STATION

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Post in thread 'comet colonies'

Jul 31, 2020

Thanks for the feedback..
I think I will do a scientific station.

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XERICA

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Thread 'Xerica E582421-3'

Jan 6, 2022

Xerica E582421-3

A crew of Solomani exiles discovered and settled this arid world five centuries ago.

Visitors to the planet’s only major settlement, Xerica City, will notice the marked familial similarity among the natives; lantern jaws, wide-set eyes, blond hair, polydactyly, and olive complexions.

Eighty years ago, the government implemented an ‘Improve the Race’ scheme. Visiting human males find the young, unmarried women very accommodating. Xerican mores tolerate fornication before marriage, but harshly condemn adultery. Maidens wear bows over the left ear, matrons over the right...

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PLAISANCE

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General Post in thread 'Plaisance (world in progress, PEACH)'

Oct 14, 2018

A purely hedonistic society on the verge of or in collapse?
Or something along the lines of Eden in ST TOS?
Is the TL a slide in reverse, or the original number?

The TL reflects the degradation of a higher TL to lower levels maintained by robotic systems, which they planet cannot manufacture more of, and by the sane minority.

I'd say it's a society in collapse, with a minority attempting to rebuild.

I haven't actually seem the whole of the TOS episode you mean, but I have seen part of it. Space hippies!

TOS is by far my favorite Star Trek.

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Post in thread 'Sauvage X247000-0'

Jan 5, 2022

EDITED FOR STYLE, CLARITY:


Sauvage X247000-0

Volcanoes and hot vents spew sulfurous fumes and clouds of ash into the thin air of this small world. A cold ocean covers most of the surface. Forests and grasslands of sickly yellow vegetation blanket the single continent, located in the southern hemisphere. Orbital views reveal no signs of industrialization, no starport, and no cities of any sort. Animals, yes, but no people. A close survey may reveal several buried, partly disassembled starship hulls.

What’s not apparent from space is the nature of the Sauvage’s only two large...

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ADDITIONAL NOTES



Ajami Station services inter-planetary traffic in a vast 'cloud' of planetoids, widely dispersed but rich in valuable minerals.
Other stations and habitats in this system are mostly prospector camps or semi-automated mining platforms, and these outposts taken together are not considered part of the same world as Ajami Station.

The Station handles commerce between Ringis (Koridom subsector, Storr) and Hesse as well as infrequent Jump 4 traffic to and from the worlds of Chaine and Hawa.

 

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Pearl is a terrestrial planet half-covered by silty pink and gray deserts and half by shallow seas. The early colonists, members of the same Solomani drift that settled Plaisance and the Free Comitas League, attempted crude terraforming by launching icy bodies from the rings of the system's gas giant on collision courses with Pearl. This bombardment did thicken the atmosphere somewhat and increase the amount of available water, but the impacts also caused the eruption of ash and toxic gasses from underground, tainting the air.

Most of the would-be colonists looked at Pearl, shook their heads, and kept going. But some stayed, deciding to make a go of it on Pearl. Commerce has dropped off sharply in recent times, with civil disturbances on Plaisance' eliminating the main reason people stopped at Pearl, and the democratic government has not only allowed the star port to decay, but has even allowed citizens to salvage machinery and materiel from the site so that now little remains of what had never been more than a modest facility, apart from a landing area and a few rickety vendors' stalls.

Pearlites live in sealed apartment blocks connected vy subterranean tube ways, but when travelling on the surface they use pressure tents (TL 7).

Silt scuttles, camouflaged, burrowing predators, infest much of the desert, and locals often carry shotguns of revolvers to deal with these predators,

Local politics today shows a sharp division between a minority party that wishes to rebuild and improve the port in a bid to attract off world commerce and investment, raising taxes to pay for the effort, and an anti-tax autarkist majority faction. The world's small population makes all political disputes personal or familial, and things are heating up fast.

 

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