Flammarion

Flammarion is an important link on the Xboat route to Five Sisters subsector, and the site of both an Imperial Navy base and a Scout Service Way Station. The Naval base is a small affair intended mainly to support patrol ships and destroyers. It is unusual to see even a cruiser, let alone a capital ship, passing through the region in peacetime. The Scout Base is considerably larger, with full Way Station status. This makes it an important center for Scout Service activity in the region, ranging from training and routine communications duty to exploration and survey missions, and probably (though the Imperial authorities will neither confirm nor deny) surveillance and reconnaissance missions into the Sword Worlds Confederation.

Flammarion itself is a fairly unappealing world with a unbreathably thin atmosphere despite its size, and little surface water. Most Travellers stop over at the large and well equipped Highport and never set foot on-planet.

System Data

Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category	Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Flammarion	Primary	Main Sequence	1.18	6050 - 6180	1.78479
Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
AU	0.0057	0.1108	1.24 - 2.17	0.57	5.7
Orbit #	*	0	4	2	6

Spinward Marches 0930

A623514-B

Staport - A (Excellent)

• Refined fuel available
• Annual maintenance overhaul available
• Shipyard capable of constructing starships and non-starships present

Size - 6

• 9600 KM.
• Standard Gravity (0.60g - 0.81g)

Atmosphere - 2

• Very thin. Tainted.
• Requires combination respirator/filter

Hydrographics - 3

• 30% water

Population - 5

• Average (700 thousand)

Goverment - 1

• Megacorporation. (Ling-Standard Products)
• Government by a company managerial elite.
• Citizens are company employees

Law Level - 4

• Moderate Law
• Light assault weapons prohibited.

Tech Level - B

• Average Stellar (Large Starships)

Trade Codes:

• Po
• NI

Bases:

• Naval, Small
• Scout, Large
• Waystation
• X-Boat

Gas Giants - None

Prohibited:

• Weapons: Poison gas, explosives, undetectable weapons, WMD.
• Weapons: Portable energy weapons (except ship-mounted weapons).
• Weapons: Heavy weapons.
• Weapons: Light assault weapons and submachine guns.
• Drugs: Combat drugs.
• Drugs: Addictive narcotics.
• Technology: Dangerous technologies such as nanotechnology
• Technology: Alien Technology
• Technology: TL 13+
• Travellers: Landing only at starport.

Type

World

Location under

Sword Worlds Subsector

Included Locations

• Flammarion - High Port
• Flammarion - Scout Base

Owning Organization

Ling-Standard Products

Sector

Spinward Marches

Subsector

Sword Worlds