Keng (world)

Keng/Regina (Spinward Marches 2405) Milieu 1116 E5718CA-5 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 8 Moderate (800 million) Government C Charismatic Oligarchy Law A Extreme Law (no weapons) Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G5 V M9 V
Worlds	6
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Charismatic oligarchy
Law Level	Extreme
Cultural Extension	A677
Army Size (BEs)	300
Economic Details
Technology Level	5
Economic Extension	A75+1 Resources A Abundant Labor 7 Moderate (80 million) Infrastructure 5 Limited Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	-2
Resource Units	350
GWP (BCr)	572
World Trade Number	3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	107
Starport Details
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.

Astrography & Planetology

Keng's system has two gas giants, one much closer to the primary and one very far out.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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.

In addition to Keng Startown, other major settlements on the mainworld include Kapash, Sumiburg, Kesher, Adur, Pas Town, and Egugur.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

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• Marc Miller. Shadows/Annic Nova (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 1.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Rebellion Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1988), 26.
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58.
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 38.
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 83-84.
• Michael Brown, "Keng". JTAS Online (February 18, 2003)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Mark Gellis, "Adventures in the Keng System". JTAS Online (February 8, 2011)
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 43.