Dawnworld (world)
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| Dawnworld/District 268 (Spinward Marches 1531) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1115) | E885000-0
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | F8 D M5 D | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
An empty world in the District 268 subsector. Dawnworld is a bit drier than Terra and the atmosphere is somewhat denser, but apart from that it is one of the most Earthlike worlds in the Spinward Marches. It is so pleasant that in -982 the Darrians, who did not usually plant colonies that far away from Darrian, colonized it.
The Darrians named the world Dand Daryene, or "New Home". Within a generation is was discovered that some unidentified aspect of the planet, presumably biological in nature, caused sterility in all male born there. The settlement was accordingly abandoned in -941. The Darrians left a group of scientists to discover the cause, but they were cut off in the Maghiz and all knowledge of the settlement and the base was lost.
The Sacnoth Dominate named ther world Hoding and established a colony there in -154. They too discovered the problem and abandoned the world again in -118. The Dominate planned to send scientists to study the problem, but the War of the First Rebellion intervened.
Dawnworld was settled again in 288, under that name, by a group of utopians from the Imperium who were oblivious of the previous failures and who had to abandon it in 312. In 481 a group of Vargr exiles from Gvurrdon found the empty world and settled there, likewise unaware of the reason why it was empty. In 506 a team of researchers finally put together all the facts and the Vargr were resettled on Spirelle.
It is likely that whatever causes the problem will not effect beings who do not belong to Sphere Terra but the risk that it might kept anyone from taking the chance while there were still alternate worlds to settle. After the Imperium declared the subsector an Imperial district in 610, Dawnworld came under its protection. The world was then declared off limit to any settlers, regardless of species, until the problem had been identified and solved. Visits to the world do not appear to cause any damage, so it has not been interdicted.
The situation is further complicated by Sword Worlder claims to the planet. Between 600 and 1100, several attempts have been made by both Sword Worlder and Imperial scientists to solve the mystery, but they have all ended in failure, most likely because they were all terminated prematurely due to political pressure.
| This article was copied or excerpted from the following copyrighted sources and used under license from Far Future Enterprises and by permission of the author. |
| – GURPS Traveller: Sword Worlds |
| An adventure set on Dawnworld (or Hoding as it was called at the time) during Milieu 0 was published in JTAS Online. You need to be a subscriber to see it. You can find the adventure here. |
