campaign: CotD
title: Ksma Heepi
pord: 2
system: Five Parsecs from Home
date: 2023-04-26
tags:
- cotd
type: planetCopy

Ksma Heepi

Traits

• System: Gyda

• Traits: Technical knowledge: Add +1 to all Repair attempts.

• Licensing: No license required

• Link to SWN

Attributes

• Atmosphere: Breatheable mix
• Temperature: Temperate
• Biosphere: No native biosphere
• Population: Fewer than a million inhabitants
• Tech Level: TL4+

Research Base

• Azusa 4

Planet Tags

Regional Hegemon

This world has the technological sophistication, natural resources, and determined polity necessary to be a regional hegemon for the sector. Nearby worlds are likely either directly subservient to it or tack carefully to avoid its anger. It may even be the capital of a small stellar empire.

Enemies:

• Ambitious general
• Colonial official
• Contemptuous noble

Friends:

• Diplomat
• Offworld ambassador
• Foreign spy

Complications:

• The hegemon's influence is all that's keeping a murderous war from breaking out on nearby worlds
• The hegemon is decaying and losing its control
• The government is riddled with spies
• The hegemon is genuinely benign

Things:

• Diplomat carte blanche
• Deed to an offworld estate
• Foreign aid grant

Places:

• Palace or seat of government
• Salon teeming with spies
• Protest rally
• Military base

Oceanic World

The world is entirely or almost entirely covered with liquid water. Habitations might be floating cities, or might cling precariously to the few rocky atolls jutting up from the waves, or are planted as bubbles on promontories deep beneath the stormy surface. Survival depends on aquaculture. Planets with inedible alien life rely on gengineered Terran sea crops.

Enemies:

• Pirate raider
• Violent "salvager" gang
• Tentacled sea monster

Friends:

• Daredevil fishermen
• Sea hermit
• Sapient native life

Complications:

• The liquid flux confuses grav engines too badly for them to function on this world
• Sea is corrosive or toxic
• The seas are wracked by regular storms

Things:

• Buried pirate treasure
• Location of enormous schools of fish
• Pretech water purification equipment

Places:

• The only island on the planet
• Floating spaceport
• Deck of storm-swept ship
• Undersea bubble city

NPCs