Victoria : Lanth : Spinward Marches

(1817 Sector, 0207 Subsector; X697772-2)

Name	UWP	Base	Trade	z	pag	Polit	Star(s)
Victoria	X697772-2		Ag	R	112	Im	M6 V

Section	Includes
Referee's Notes	Stuff you probably shouldn't read
Encounters	Encounter tables
Local Information	Available at Referee's discretion
System Data	Astrographic information
TAS Advisories	What you must know
TAS Report	Information for travellers
Library Data Entry

System Data

Primary :: M6V

Orbit		Name	UWP	Grav	Day	Year	deg C	Diam	Rem	Zo
Stel	Sat	Name	UWP	Grav	Day	Year	deg C	Diam	Rem	Zo
0		Victoria	X697772-2	0.81	34.5	0.16	13	9.0	Ag	O
	1	ring	YR00000-0
	9	satellite	Y210000-0	0.19	23.3	3.78	-85	3.2
	12	Albert	H550325-1	0.18	22.7	5.82	8	8.5
1		asteroid	Y000000-0
2		gas giant	Small GG	2.20	34848	1.07		127.7
	6	satellite	YS00000-0	0.05	28704	5.03	-170	1.1
	9	satellite	Y100000-0	0.08	-86208	9.25	-168	1.1
	11	satellite	YS00000-0	0.04		12.50	-168	1.0
	50	satellite	YS00000-0	0.03	26.8	121.1	-168	0.8
3		gas giant	Large GG	4.60	21.3	1.82		256.0
	2	ring	YR00000-0
	8	satellite	YS00000-0	0.03		7.61	-185	1.3
	12	satellite	Y633000-0	0.74		13.98	-192	9.9
	40	satellite	Y100000-0	0.07	69216	85.07	-183	2.2

TAS Advisories

TNS Propagation: 1-2 weeks from Lanth / Lanth via interdiction forces; distributed to local population one extra week after arriving insystem, and subject to censorship.

TAS Report

Victoria: a Description

Victoria is a rather light, metal-poor world which has nonetheless managed to retain a fairly dense, tainted atmosphere. This taint cannot be handled by normal filter masks, and requires the use of full environment suits and oxygen tanks. Fortunately the taint is only present at altitudes less than 1000m above sea level, so settlements built above this altitude are not affected by the taint.

Victoria's human population therefore lives atop a large system of mesas, with these communities connected by locally constructed airships. The builders obtain hydrogen from the indigenous balloon plant which grows bundles of large, hydrogen-filled sacs, and the ships are propelled by manual power, either aerial wing / oars or hand cranked airscrews.

The planet is believed to have been settled by sublight colony ships in about -1450, and was not recontacted by humans until late in the settlement of the Spinward Marches, given the world's inconvenient location in the midst of the Abyss. Following its examination by the IISS, it was interdicted to allow the local culture to find its own solution to their development. It is believed that their slow technological advance is due to the severe lack of metals on the world.

Victoria shows signs of intensive asteroid bombardment dating to the Ancient Final War, and an Ancient site has been discovered on its largest moon, Albert.

The system also shows signs of much seeded flora and fauna, also consistent with Ancient attention. It has the only worlds where the Kudebeck's Gazelle (also known as the Ivory Gazelle or "Kudie") exists in the wild, although it is known not to be native here. The six-legged Kudie is an important animal for Vicotrian society. It is hunted not only for its hide, fur, and meat, but most importantly for its light, durable, and easily-worked ivory, which is a primary structural material on this metal-poor world.

(Since the Sup.3 survey, the law level for Victoria has been increased from 0 to 2, and TL dropped from 4 to 2. The RSB shows the TL at 3 and law level at 2.)

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(ref: Victoria (1817 Spinward Marches): "Adventure Synopsis" Secret of the Ancients; "The 4518th Lift Infantry Regiment" The Spinward Marches Campaign; "TNS (Revisited)" The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 19; The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 2)