Tsanesi (world)

Tsanesi/Caledon (Reaver's Deep 1711)
Classic Era (1116)	D653636-6 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 6 Moderate (2 million) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K7 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	0

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Tsanesi is a poor, nonindustrial world.

• As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
• This world has few prospects for economic development.
• It is a Client State of the Principality of Caledon located in the Scotian Deep Subsector of the Reaver's Deep Sector.
• This is the homeworld of the Yn-tsai sophontic species, a minor race .

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

No information yet available.

Monostellar System

Nsenta Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Nsenta K7 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.64	3990 - 4100	0.20972
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0029	0.038	0.47 - 0.88	0.29	2.9
	Orbit #	*	*	2	0	5

System Data

Primary: Nsenta, spectral class K7 V. Mass 1.196 standard. Stellar diameter 1.252 standard.

Planetary System: Nine major bodies. One inhabited world (Tsanesi IV). No gas giants. No planetoid belts.

IV Tsanesi:

• Mean orbital radius: 305.18 million kilometers (2.04 AU).
• Period: 973.1 days (2.66 years).
• Two satellites.
• Diameter: 10251 kilometers.
• Density: .99 standard.
• Mass: .418 standard.
• Mean surface gravity: .74 G.
• Rotation period: 30 hours, 59 minutes, 28 seconds.
• Axial inclination: 4°39'56.7".
• Albedo: .23. Surface atmospheric pressure .43 atm. Composition, standard oxygen-nitrogen mix, breathable by humans without artificial assistance.
• Hydrographic percentage: 33%; composition water and water-ice.
• Mean surface temperature: -5°C.

History & Background (Dossier)

Tsanesi is one of two worlds in the Caledon Subsector inhabited by a nonhuman sophont race.

A Caledonian research outpost is maintained on Tsanesi (as well as a sizable naval forward operating base on one of the system's satellites), and the world is officially listed as a Protectorate of the Principality of Caledon. Scientists continue to study the Yn-tsai in hopes of learning the secret of their origins and the explanation for certain odd facets of their culture, such as their incongruous pacifism.

Currently accepted theories hold that the Yn-tsai are descended from a slave race under the dominion of the mysterious Saie, but their origins remain a major puzzle. A few scientists maintain them to be another race transplanted by the Ancients, but evidence is against this.

Offworld Relations

When first contacted, the Yn-tsai were an enigma to human explorers. They do not fit into the pattern of life on Tsanesi and could not have evolved on the planet. The first explorers found them to be a peaceful (...indeed, a pacifistic) culture - odd for descendents of carnivores. They had a TL–3 culture and a feudal society. Most noticeable of all was the fact that the Yn-tsai were terrified of "strangers beyond the sky", and regarded the first off-world visitors to their world with a mixture of fear, suspicion, and awe. Caledonian merchants, scientists, and explorers gradually won a grudging acceptance on Tsanesi, but the Yn-tsai remain reclusive, somewhat xenophobic, and few in numbers. Their technology has increased over the centuries, but they still show a definite desire to avoid those elements of technology devoted to warfare or to space travel.

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