Trade Codes?

[Garnfellow]

I was looking at a bunch of UWPs and I saw the following Trade Codes that I couldn't identify. The first three might be typos, but the last two show up several different times.

Be ??
Co ??
Do ??
FA ??
NH ??

 

[far-trader]

Might depend on the source. If the first three might be typos/bad ocr I'd guess:

Ba for Barren
Co not a clue
De for Desert

And the others, no guess. Or wild ones if also maybe typos/bad ocr:

FL for Fluid Hydrographics (in place of water)
NA for Non-Agriculture

 

[Peter Schutze]

Co

Didnt one version of traveller have Cold as well as Desert

Otherwise I'd guess Co is a scan failure for De

>Might depend on the source
FA and NH are probably both scan/OCR failures for NA which is probably the most common single code used

In any case it shouldnt be too hard for you to work out if they were supposed to be NA / De / Ba based on the UWP of the systems

 

[Darley51]

Trade Codes...

yep. What source are you using?

Be - o:??
Co - Colony (from T5)
Do - Domain??
FA - Farm All (as in tractor)
NH - New Hampshire:rofl:

 

[Hemdian]

FA and NH may have come from the CT Alien Module on Hivers:

Fa = "Fascinating" ... a code used for non-Hiver worlds within Hiver space where the population is 8+ and the atmosphere code is 3/4/A/B/C.

Nh = "Non-Hiver" ... a code used within the Hive Federation for worlds where the dominant race is not Hiver.

 

[Garnfellow]

yep. What source are you using?

I was importing SEC file format data into Access. I had snagged them from http://www.u.arizona.edu/~bjohnson/archives/

 

[Garnfellow]

Here's a little more context. All of the "NH" codes show up in the Spica sector data, so maybe those are typos, too.

Amrad (Spica) C223364-8 Lo Ni Po NH
Quatre (Spica) B121565-A Ni Po NH

The Fl code, though, shows up a lot.

Iren (Vland) A8C189E-B N Fl
(Antares) BABA455-A N Ni Fl Wa
Loungel (Antares) C6A59DD-7 Hi Fl
Iraisafeie (Ealiyasiyw Sector) B8C22MA-A C0 Fl Lo Ni
Yorlkar (Ealiyasiyw Sector) D9D84KA-7 C2 Fl Ni
Ot Zell (Lishun) C9B798A-D Hi Fl
Genkiis (Lishun) C8B8574-A S Ni Fl
[unnamed] (Trojan Reach) X9AA332-0 Lo Ni Fl Wa

 

[rancke]

The Fl code, though, shows up a lot.

Iren (Vland) A8C189E-B N Fl
(Antares) BABA455-A N Ni Fl Wa
Loungel (Antares) C6A59DD-7 Hi Fl
Iraisafeie (Ealiyasiyw Sector) B8C22MA-A C0 Fl Lo Ni
Yorlkar (Ealiyasiyw Sector) D9D84KA-7 C2 Fl Ni
Ot Zell (Lishun) C9B798A-D Hi Fl
Genkiis (Lishun) C8B8574-A S Ni Fl
[unnamed] (Trojan Reach) X9AA332-0 Lo Ni Fl Wa

Fl stands for Fluid Ocean and is used on worlds where the hydrosphere isn't. Isn't water, that is. I.e. worlds with atmospheres A-C. I can't remember what atmosphere D is, but IIRC it's a normal atmosphere either at low altitudes or at high altitudes, so I don't think Yorlkar should have a 'Fl', but I could be mistaken.


Hans

 

[Andrew Boulton]

If Co and Do are really C0 and D0 then it's Chirper and Droyne population.