Sunday, June 28, 2015

System of the Week, Quintanarde

The first in the mis-named "System of the Week" series.  This will be an ongoing attempt to flesh out the various systems of the Andalusian Reach.

Quintanarde is our first stop. 

Quintanarde (Aragon 0103) is a primitive planet in the Vice-Royalty of Aragon.  Located on the fringes of the Vice-royalty, this system is not a bright spot.  

The Starport is a Class E starport.  There is a area marked out, and there are blasted spots that are bare to the bedrock from starships landing and taking off.  Navigation Aids are limited and primitive.  Fuel is available.  There is a wooden flume that brings water down to the starport.  Starship crews are advised that they need to bring their own hoses to get water from the flumes to their own fuel tanks.  Then the fuel will need to be cracked and refined from this water.

Quintanarde is about 12,000 Km in diameter.  The atmosphere is a standard, tainted atmosphere.  The hydrosphere is 87% water.

(Map courtesy of the map generator at http://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/world/)

 The population of 500 Million is ruled by an impersonal buraucracy which tightly regulates all aspects of life.  

The technology is TL2 - "The Age of Sail".  Most Quintanardians live in a world of sailing ships, without electricity or internal combustion engines.  

The people live either on the various islands, or in one of the shallow-water cities.  Trade via sailing ship is vigorous, and checked only by the buraucracy of the planetary government.

This world is classified as a "Non Agricultural" world by most trade organizations.  There have been some attempts to export fish or other products, but the local luxury market hasn't opened up for these exports yet.

For the Referee -

1. What are we doing here?  500 million people in a Horatio Hornblower-esque world is not a problem.  Requiring them to wear filter masks outside of their environmentally sealed homes IS a problem.  I need to figure out how to reconcile this minor issue.  I'm being stubborn and using the randomly generated system info as much as I can.  I could go for the dodge that "the people here are used to/adapted to the atmosphere, and the travellers are not"... but that feels like cheating to me.

2. Here's the stats, as generated randomly.
Quintanarde   0103 E879899-2                       513 Na
Starport – Class E – Frontier Port
Size – 8 = 12,000 to 13599 Km
Atmosphere – 7 Standard, Tainted
Hydrosphere – 9 = 85% - 94% covered by water
Population 8 – Moderate Pop.  100 Million to 1 Billion
Government – 9 Impersonal buraucracy
Law Level – 9 Hi Law, No weapons allowed outside home
Tech Level – 2 “Age of Sail”
Population Modifier – 5, so Population =  500 Million
One Planetoid belt
3 Gas Giants

Quintanarde is a primitive world, with minimal infrastructure or technology.  Not much of interest to Travellers here.

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