Primary:
Daneeka,
spectral class G5V. ICN S4K0107G5V. Mass 0.94 standard. Stellar
diameter 0.91 standard. Luminosity 0.67 standard.
Planetary
System: Six major bodies. One inhabited world (Traneer,
III). Three gas giants,
two planetoid belts In system.
III Traneer: Mean orbital
radius, 119.68 million kilometers. Period, 269.56 days ... One satellite ...
Diameter, 9,312 kilometers. Density, 1.01. Mass, 0.244 standard. Mean surface
gravity, 0.63 G. Rotation period: 27 hours, 18 minutes, 46 seconds. Axial
Inclination, 9°4'3.5" Albedo, .32 ... Surface atmospheric pressure,
1.2atm; composition, standard oxygen-nitrogen mix tainted with byproducts of
Industrial hydrocarbons and other chemicals. Filter mask may be required under
some circumstances. Hydrographic percentage, 69%, composition, liquid
water tainted with industrial pollutants. Mean surface temperature, 9°C.
Remarks: Traneer was the
first world settled by the people of Drexilthar
(Reavers' Deep 1826) during the formation of the Iltharan
Empire. Previously uninhabited, it was colonized during this period
primarily by Tring and Akakhad
political refugees. The world's fortunes rose and fell with those of Drexilthar
and the end of the empire brought an economic and technological collapse on
Traneer.
True to their warlike natures,
the inhabitants fragmented into several rival states, and intermittent wars have
plagued the world ever since. As recovery proceeded, the various nations rebuilt
their technologies slowly. Within the last 150 years, heavy industry has been
restored (and mostly harnessed to national war efforts). Indiscriminate
pollution and waste followed; the ecology of Traneerr has been seriously damaged
by their over industrialization. Symptoms of the problem: famines, declining
birth rates, and the like - are everywhere evident.
So far, relief efforts organized
by the Confederacy of Duncinae
have come to naught. Each government on Traneer refuses to cooperate until
opposing governments are first brought under control or eliminated. Since relief
efforts on a planetary scale involve the cooperation of local populations, and
those populations refuse to cooperate if the relief workers won't agree to deny
their aid to other governments, a situation of virtual stalemate has developed.
Public opinion within the Confederacy is generally in favor of letting Traneer
solve its own problems, since the inhabitants are unwilling to accept help.
Confederacy-sponsored
investigatory teams, most of them operating covertly to avoid accusations of
espionage by local governments, are still sizing up the situation on Traneer.
Touchy locals, brought up in paranoid suspicion of outsiders, periodically pose
a threat to these teams. At the same time, government cutbacks in the
Confederacy have limited the amount of support that can be given to protect
them. The whole project is slated to be shut down and disbanded in a matter of a
few more months.
Traneer's
starport facilities are primitive and the inhabitants less than hospitable to
outsiders. Visitors are advised to avoid landing at Traneer unless absolutely
necessary, though the world does not currently bear an Amber Zone
classification.