System of the Day #228 – Thyoph

Thyoph
A9779A8-D Co Hi In Climate= C PBG= 902
Ix= 4 Ex= B8G5 RU= 7040 Cx= 9D1C
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Thyoph is an extremely important, productive, efficient, and influential industrial world. Its industries are known for its wide variety of higher technology goods and services, in particular its manufacturing equipment and processes. Its shipyards produce solid and efficient, if otherwise unremarkable, starships.
Thyoph has long relied on imported materials for its industries. This has posed few problems, as nearby systems have always produced more than enough materials for regional needs. However, there is growing evidence of a slowdown in these systems. Whether this is due to nearby mines and systems being overworked, or some other factor, is unknown currently.
What is known is this: the society’s past leadership has planned for such an eventuality. The Thyoph system is not lacking for its own natural resources. Rather than deplete local sources, early leadership outsourced, purchasing materials from nearby systems while leaving the system’s own resources mostly untouched. Mining and even surveying is (and has been) illegal in the system, unless fully sanctioned by the system’s leadership. This has not, of course, been allowed to any but government sources, and has been enforced by the system’s extensive local Navy.
With the potential loss of resources from their usual sources, the government and its supporting industrial leaders have begun to establish their own local mines. Though it will take a few years for these local sources to come fully into production, the impact on other systems is already being felt; neighboring suppliers are now fearful of losing access to Thyoph’s extensive industrial markets, and prices have begun to decline. It seems the long term planning of Thyoph’s popular leadership is still paying extensive dividends for its industries and citizens, which helps to explain why the system’s leading families have remained in power for centuries…
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NOTE: These systems, as generated, are generic. Referees will need to modify the system and descriptions to fit their campaign needs.
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System Details
Orbit – Component/Name – UWP
P Primary Star A6V
1 InfernoWorld YBC0000-0 Tz
2 InnerWorld Y661000-0
3 InnerWorld Y543000-0 Po 2 Moons
4 BigWorld YB8A000-0 Oc 1 Moon
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5 RadWorld Y7BA000-0 Fl
6 LGG Size = R (25) 3 Moons
7 THYOPH A9779A8-D Co Hi In 1 Moon
10 LGG Size = S (26) 1 Ring 2 Moons
12 RadWorld Y8A8000-0 Fl 1 Ring 3 Moons
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This is my 228th hand-generated “System of the Day” entry, using the Traveller5 (T5) rules, from Far Future Enterprises. My goal is to publish one random system per day in 2020.
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This system was generated by hand, using my new Traveller dice and the Traveller5 (T5) rules set. Feel free to use this system in your own campaigns. Permission is granted to publish these results, as long as the copyrights of Far Future Enterprises are not violated, and no money is charged for them.
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