[Space] example system stats

[Agemegos]

Name of star:    CD -25°1169
system number:   139                  companion stars: 2				
class of star:   K0 V                 1.  mass: 0.75    periapsis:  58 a.u.
mass:            0.8  M(sol)              class: K2 V     apapsis:  12 a.u.		
luminosity:      0.434 L(sol)         2.  mass: 0.75    periapsis: 322 a.u.		
age:             8.3 billion years        class: K2 V     apapsis: 964 a.u.
diameter:        0.008 a.u.               (companion 2 is actually a close binary pair)
								
row     ID #  orbit radius      world type                 size   mass  grav.  atmosphere                hydro-   temp. climate   solar day Hab. RVM Affinity
number        (a.u.)(10,000 km)                            (D♁)   (M♁)  (g♁)                             graphics  (C)             (hours)
1       I     0.09              tiny rock planet           0.33   0.02  0.23   none                                463  infernal  infinite   0    0    0
2       II    0.24              standard greenhouse planet 0.95   0.85  0.95   superdense corrosive               1008	infernal  infinite  -2   -1   -3
3       III   0.43              large greenhouse planet    1.8    5.1   1.6    superdense highly toxic             416	infernal  infinite  -1    0   -1
4       IV    0.73		standard garden planet     0.93   0.73	0.84   thin breathable           50% water   5  cool          20.8   6   -1    5
5       V     1.2		small rock planet          0.41   0.06	0.33   none                                -79  frozen        11.2   0    0    0
6                             2 moonlets                                                                           -77  frozen               0   -2   -2
7       VI    3.8		medium gas giant           11     300   2.6    superdense corrosive                                   42.3		
8                             6 moonlets                                                                          -161  frozen               0   -1   -1
9       VIa         41          small ice moon             0.41   0.03  0.20   very dense mildly toxic   30% HC	  -155  frozen        42.3  -1    0   -1
10      VIb         74          tiny sulfur moon           0.12   0.00  0.04   none                               -184  frozen        102   -2    0   -2
11                            4 moonlets                                                                          -161  frozen               0   -1   -1
12      VII   7.7		small gas giant            5.4   30     1.0    superdense corrosive                                   199
13                            5 moonlets                                                                          -195  frozen               0    0    0
14      VIIa        48          small ice moon             0.32   0.02  0.16   dense mildly toxic        70% HC   -191  frozen        170   -1    0   -1
15      VIIb        54          standard ice moon          0.37   0.04  0.30   very thin suffocating              -188  frozen        199    0    1    1
16      VIIc        62          small ice moon             0.31   0.02  0.16   very dense mildly toxic   60% HC   -189  frozen        245   -1    0   -1
17      VIId        69          tiny ice moon              0.25   0.01  0.13   none                               -203  frozen        292    0   -1   -1
18      VIIe        77          small ice moon             0.38   0.02  0.15   standard mildly toxic     80% HC   -193  frozen        343   -1    0   -1
19      VIIf        86          tiny ice moon              0.21   0.01  0.13   none                               -203  frozen        402    0    0    0
20                            4 moonlets                                                                          -195  frozen               0   -1   -1
21      VIII  14		small gas giant            3.9   15     1.0    superdense corrosive                                   115
22                            9 moonlets                                                                          -215  frozen               0    0    0
23     VIIIa        30          small hadean moon          0.27   0.01  0.14   none                               -233  frozen        115    0   -1   -1
24     VIIIb        34          tiny sulfur moon           0.25   0.01  0.10   none                               -227  frozen        140   -2    0   -2
25     VIIIc        39          tiny ice moon              0.17   0.00  0.07   none                               -221  frozen        175    0    1    1
26     VIIId        45          tiny ice moon              0.15   0.00  0.06   none                               -221  frozen        213    0    0    0
27     VIIIe        51          tiny ice moon              0.20   0.00  0.10   none                               -221  frozen        260    0   -1   -1
28                            5 moonlets                                                                          -215  frozen               0   -1   -1

Generated by Brett Evill's GURPS Handbook of the Planets. Copyright © 2010 Brett Evill.

GURPS Handbook of the Planets is a substantially faithful instantiation of the star system generation sequence from GURPS Space 4th edition, which is copyright © 2006, Steve Jackson Games Incorporated.

[Agemegos]

system number:   139   "CD -25°1169"
world:           IV    "New Tobolsk"

Planetology
			
class of star:   K0 V	
mean distance:   0.73 a.u.
perihelion:      0.73 a.u.
aphelion:        0.73 a.u.
axial tilt:      38°	
annual period:   0.696 standard years
                 293.5 local days
local day        20.8 hours
			
standard garden planet
	
diameter:        0.93 x Earth's
                 11910 km
density:         0.90 x Earth's
                 5.0 g/cm^3
surface gravity: 0.84 g.
                 8.2 m/s^2
escape velocity: 9.9 km/s
vulcanism:       none	
tectonics:       none	
climate:         cool	
temperature			
        average: 5 C
    periphelion: 5 C
       aphelion: 5 C
illumination:    74% Earth's
oceans:          50%	
    composition: water	
    tidal range: 0.99m
atmosphere			
     main gases: N2, O2	
     traces &c.:			
          class: breathable	
       pressure: 0.76 bar (thin)

Generated by Brett Evill's GURPS Handbook of the Planets. Copyright © 2010 Brett Evill.

GURPS Handbook of the Planets is a substantially faithful instantiation of the star system generation sequence from GURPS Space 4th edition, which is copyright © 2006, Steve Jackson Games Incorporated.

[Agemegos]

Economy
	
Habitability:      6
Resources:         poor         RVM:     -1
				Affinity: 5
settlement type:   colony
carrying capacity: 1.3 E+7
population:        1.3 E+8      PR:       8
tech level:        2 (advanced)
per-capita income: G$ 7,290
typical wealth:    poor		
economic volume:   G$ 9.4 E+11	
spaceport class:   Class I        (1 N)


Society	
				
• Religious theocracy
  – "Action Meditation"
  – involves psychedelic drug use
  – ecstatic dancing and drumming		
  – mandala dancing a routine observance		
  – monastic asceticism	
  – 'choregi' (abbots) rule towns
    + 'evangeli', 'archevangeli', 'principi', 'potentates' and the Primate rule in a feudal hierarchy
  – unbelievers shunned, heretics persecuted

• Pervasive performing art					
  – 'mandala dancing': acrobatic dancing on a religious diagram

• Domination					
  – disputes settled & status established by competitive mandala dancing
	
• Marked sex-role differentiation

• Pervasive sports
  – hawking
  – polocrosse	
  – pacer racing
	
• Exposure taboo					
  – neck to knee					


Government					
					
world unity:       feudal		
government type:   theocracy		
control rating:    3
Law:               traditional
      Enforcement: private, monks
        Judgement: legal scholars
        Penalties: capital, corporal, compensation

Partly generated by Brett Evill's GURPS Handbook of the Planets. Copyright © 2010 Brett Evill.

GURPS Handbook of the Planets is a substantially faithful instantiation of the star system generation sequence from GURPS Space 4th edition, which is copyright © 2006, Steve Jackson Games Incorporated.

[Langy]

Awesome. Are you going to be releasing your spreadsheet any time soon? I know you had concerns about releasing it before - especially in regards to how faithful it was to the actual GURPS Space system.

[SpaceGurper]

I too would love to get my hands on that spreadsheet.

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Langy

Awesome. Are you going to be releasing your spreadsheet any time soon?

I don't know. I sometimes feel like letting it go in its present state.

I know you had concerns about releasing it before - especially in regards to how faithful it was to the actual GURPS Space system.

Yeah. I'm happy enough to simply document the issue with the orbits of moons, but I would like to be substantially in compliance over tides, tidal braking, and rotational periods. And it doesn't look as though SJ Games is going to correct any of those errata. Also, I know Excel a bit better now and could do a better job with user input, but there would be a little bit of work involved.

[martinl]

carrying capacity: 1.3 E+7
population: 1.3 E+8
tech level: 2 (advanced)

Is population really meant to be 10x carrying capacity?

Also, a TL2 polity controlling 130,000,000 people on an entire planet is a little odd. I'm sure there's a good reason for it (perhaps the landmass is concentrated and has few natural fortifications, or perhaps cultural unity is very strong, or even that the other polities are too small to show up on the summary), but now I'm curious. If you plan to write this up, please post.

[Langy]

Yeah, that population does seem a bit off. According to the guidelines in GURPS Space, it should be between 50% and 150% of the world's carrying capacity, since it's a TL2 society, which is less than TL5.

[Agemegos]

Population is not calculated by the spreadsheet.

This planet is from Flat Black, where TL2 agriculture and grazing are carried on with a legacy of TL10 Bio-Tech genetically-engineered crop plants, pasture plants, pharm, and grazing animals. Also, the quasi-nomadic 'stockmen' are using satellite downlink equipment to find pasture. The TL2 listed is a development level based on the scale of integration of the economy, and it determines the sophistication of local manufacturing, the productivity of the economy, per-capita incomes, and the exchange rate. Carrying capacity is calculated by the spreadsheet, but not directly relevant.

Similarly, the government was patched together by the Imperial governor about a century ago, handing out satellite communicators to choregi, evangeli, and archevangeli and bribing them to enter into a formal federation. All the Patriarch and his court of cardinals actually do is to appoint the senator and the Imperial district judge. In practice choregi are practically independent, responding slightly to nearby evangeli and archevangeli, but the rest of the feudal/ecclesiastical hierarchy is purely a legal fiction.

Even so, the wheels are coming off. The PCs don't have access to the best information, and the rumours are pretty thick, but its possible that the numbers of stockmen have risen beyond the point that their flocks will support even despite Imperial help with grazing management. In this year's southward migration they appear to be systematically capturing and burning cities. (Other possible explanations mentioned by assorted NPCs with theories include a backlash against persecution of stockmen and their choregi for heresy, some sort of anti-clerical movement among legal scholars with the stockmen, and (naturally) a plot by the Political Department to bring the colony under the sway of Imperial tyranny.

Not that the PCs care. Their only interest seems to be in stealing the Patriarch's carpet.

[Adina]

Originally Posted by Brett

Not that the PCs care. Their only interest seems to be in stealing the Patriarch's carpet.

Not just his carpet. The wax gallery would complement it nicely.

Jeff