Keng (world)
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Primary | G5 V M9 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Worlds | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Government | Charismatic oligarchy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Law Level | Extreme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cultural Extension | A677 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Army Size (BEs) | 300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Technology Level | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Economic Extension | A75+1
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Importance Extension | -2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Resource Units | 350 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GWP (BCr) | 572 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Trade Number | 3.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trade Volume (MCr/year) | 107 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classification | Class-E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port Size | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Building Capacity (Tons) | 960,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port employees | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port passengers (annual) | 1,000 |
Keng had a tainted atmosphere and limited access to surface water, making it poorly suited to sophont habitation. The system has a population in the hundreds of millions, and suited to being a industrial worlds. This world designated as an Amber Zone. Caution is advised since the world has an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that are not well understood and might be a danger to a visitor. This a low technology world with technology competency below the standard for Charted Space. This is a temperate world, with a climate of average temperatures. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Regina Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Keng, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight and the fiefdoms of a marquis and a viscount. All three are members of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world.
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Government | Charismatic oligarchy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Law Level | Extreme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cultural Extension | A677 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Army Size (BEs) | 300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Technology Level | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Economic Extension | A75+2
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Importance Extension | -2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Resource Units | 700 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GWP (BCr) | 336 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Trade Number | 3.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trade Volume (MCr/year) | 379 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classification | Class-E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port Size | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Building Capacity (Tons) | 564,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port employees | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port passengers (annual) | 100 |
Era: New Era
Keng had a tainted atmosphere and limited access to surface water, making it poorly suited to sophont habitation. The system has a population in the hundreds of millions, and suited to being a industrial worlds. This a low technology world with technology competency below the standard for Charted Space. This is a temperate world, with a climate of average temperatures. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Regina Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)
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Binary Solar System
Keng Binary Star System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Keng G5 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.98 5600 - 5660 0.93173 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0045 0.0801 0.91 - 1.63 0.45 4.5 Orbit # * * 3 1 6 Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Keng M9 V
Secondary Main Sequence 0.079 2350 - 2380 0.00014 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0005 0.001 0.01 - 0.03 0.05 0.5 Orbit # * * * * 1
IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey
2405 Keng (Imperial)
Starport: Class I.
Diameter: 1,927 miles (3,100 km).
Atmosphere: Standard oxygen-nitrogen, tainted by high oxygen partial pressure.
Hydrographics: 10%.
Climate: Warm.
Population: 820 milliom.
Government: Oligarchy.
Control Level: 6.
Tech Level: 5.
World Trade Number: 3.0.
System Data
Keng's system has two gas giants, one much closer to the primary and one very far out. The system also has Freeport, constructed on a rocky cometary body in the Oort Cloud, about half a light-year from the system’s primary. Freeport is an independent port open to ships of any description, and a home to some 11,000 permanent residents living in habitat tunnels within the Freeport Rock.
Mainworld Data
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Mainworld Geography & Topography
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Mainworld Map
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Native Lifeforms
The mainworld has an ecosystem of its own, to which has been added offworld plants and animals from Terra (Solomani Rim 1827) and other worlds. A number of predators are willing and able to take on adult humans.
Native Lifeform: Keng Oak
Keng is an isolated frontier world only a few parsecs away from the Vargr Extents, off the Spinward Main and difficult to reach due to Red Zoned worlds and planets with very poor starports along the way. Those trade ships that come through Keng find little to offer in the markets besides agricultural products. The wood of the famed Keng oak is much sought after for furniture on richer worlds because of its beautiful grain and deep, rich color.
History & Background (Dossier)
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Imperial High / Landed Nobility
Keng, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of three members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.
- It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
- It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial marquis.
- It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.
World Starport
Keng has a Class E Starport, a frontier quality installation with few expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of a downport.
World Technology Level
Keng possesses a Technology Level of TL–5.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Electricity, hydrocarbon internal combustion, and the most fundamental atomic energy.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Ground cars or automobiles and tracked vehicles.
- Water: Large ships and submersibles with steel hulls.
- Air: Early aircraft including seaplanes and very early unmanned rockets.
World Government
Keng is governed by a Charismatic Oligarchy, like a charismatic dictatorship in that a larger group has asserted their right to rule. The group will have better rules of succession and may last longer or may transition to a non-charismatic dictatorship.
World Law Level
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World Military
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World Economy
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Trade Data
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World Demographics
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World Culture
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Urbanization
In addition to Keng Startown, other major settlements on the mainworld include Kapash, Sumiburg, Kesher, Adur, Pas Town, and Egugur.
Historical Data
The mainworld was settled several centuries ago. But as the population increased and dispersed, the Tech Level gradually fell as the startup equipment wore out before an indigenous technological base was created. Today the population of Keng is scattered about the planet in central cities built around the original colony sites, with large areas of wilderness in between. Most of the cities are linked by a vast rail network.
- Areas of the planet have hardly been explored or even surveyed from orbit since the days of the first landings centuries ago. The Keng Outbackers who have settled in the wilderness areas are a resourceful and resilient lot who value their weapons greatly.
World Timeline
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UWP Listing
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Other Data
Non-canon: Located in the Oort Cloud of Keng is a small station about a half a light year from the mainworld named Freeport.
- The station was constructed on a rocky cometary body, has facilities equivalent to an E class starport, and a population of 20,000 people. Freeport was an independent state in its own right in the Antebellum period, probably because of a deal cut with the Imperial government or its megacorporate viceroys, and did not recognize any other authority. That independence became a victim of the Quarantine, and the station received a permanent RQS presence in 1132, though it remains an important stopover point for ships journeying from the Vargr Splinters.
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), .
- Marc Miller. Shadows/Annic Nova (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), . in Article: "Introduction"
- Software: Megatraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients
- Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 38.
- Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 83.Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 83.
- Mongoose Traveller: Spinward Marches
- External Link: Peter Gray
- JTAS Online: Adventures in the Keng System
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
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