Glenshiel (world)

Glenshiel/Caledon (Reaver's Deep 1912)
Classic Era (1116)	DA86563-7 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 5 Moderate (600 thousand) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F6 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Glenshiel is an agricultural, nonindustrial, pre-rich world with a growing agro-economy, but still lacks an adequate population to expand its economy to a rich status.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• This world has promising economic future although it needs to recruit a larger labor force in order to achieve the desired prosperity.
• This die back world was once settled and developed, but the inhabitants have either died off or left, leaving behind the ruins and remnants of their civilization.
• It is a Client State of the Principality of Caledon located in the Caledon Subsector of the Reaver's Deep Sector.
• This world contains a xeno-archaeological site with suspected high-tech remnants of the now-vanished Saie precursor race.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This system is part of the Claverse Cluster.

Stellar Data

Glenshiel has a solitary primary star.

Sassenach's Eye
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F6 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.25	6280 - 6350	2.18366
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0126	0.1226	1.36 - 2.36	1.26	12.6
	Orbit #	*	0	4	3	7
	Remarks

System Data

Primary: Sassenach's Eye, spectral class F6V. ICN S4G0302F6V. Mass 1.25 standard. Stellar diameter 1.3 standard. Luminosity 2.18 standard.

Planetary System: Twelve major bodies. One inhabited world (Glenshiel, VI). Two gas giants (XI and XII). No planetoid belts.

Mainworld Data

Planet VI, Glenshiel

• Mean orbital radius: 261.8 million kilometers (1.75 AU)
• Period, 756.3 days
• No satellites
• Diameter: 17,174 kilometers
• Density: 1.0 standard
• Mass: 1.95 standard
• Mean surface gravity: 1.25 G
• Rotation period: 29 hours, 48 minutes, 56 seconds
• Axial inclination: 2°41'14.0"
• Albedo: .29.
• Surface atmospheric pressure: 2.4 atm.
• Composition: Standard oxygen-nitrogen mix, breathable by humans without artificial assistance.
• Hydrographic percentage: 82%; composition, water and frozen water-ice.
• Mean surface temperature: 32° C.

Mainworld Topography and Geography

• Darkdoom Sea
• Haven continent (west)
  • Jura Plateau
• Newcost continent (east, pole-pole)
• Norrst continent (north)
• Northfar Sea
• Rugglend continent (south)

Point of Interest: Crash Jura

The world is famous in scientific circles as the location of an important archaeological find, Crash Jura.

Native Lifeforms

Abundant native life occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

The six limbs and twin forked tails of native animals are distinctive.

• Bladefish: Edible aquatic animals
• Cragdevil: A mountain-dwelling omnivore
• Icestinger: An odd, ice-dwelling lifeform with a motile juvenile stage and a largely stationary adult phase.
• Mountiger: A large, solitary carnivore of the plateaus
• Prowlster: A forest-dweller, a stalking hunter
• Thunderunner: A large herbivore of the plateaus

History & Background (Dossier)

Glenshiel is a backwater world, beyond the bounds of the Principality of Caledon but still heavily under the influence of Caledon (Reaver's Deep 1815). It is a Protectorate, enjoying favorable trade relations and naval support from the Principality, but without representation in the House of Delegates or the Grand Senate.

Glenshiel has been settled for only 250 years, since Sir James Armstrong of Caledon founded the settlement now known as Armstrong's Landing.

• Sir James, who embraced the ideals of a "back-to-nature" movement which at that time enjoyed quite a bit of popularity on Caledon, founded the Glenshiel settlement as a wilderness retreat for those who wished to escape from the frantic pace of modern life. After his death, however, the colony slowly began to fall away from his original ideals.
• It is now an agricultural community, and Ben Laren, the smaller of two cities on the world, has become a fishing town where Bladefish from the Northfar Sea are caught and exported; they are popular as a delicacy in the Principality and in the Imperial territories to trailing.

Glenshiel is also noted as the site of Anekthor, an imposing, triple-peaked mountain on the Jura plateau. Shrouded in mystery, it has never been successfully climbed, and is reputed home of the strange animals known as "Windstalkers" -- which defy the world's known biology.

World Starport (Sp)

Glenshiel has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the 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 only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Population (P)

Glenshiel has a population of 400,000 sophonts (hundreds of thousands).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.

World Government (G)

Glenshiel is governed by a Representative Democracy where government leadership is by representatives elected by eligible voters. What determines an eligible voter varies. The representatives determine policy, including selecting members of the bureaucracy. There can be referenda, votes by eligible voters on specific subjects.

World Law Level (L)

Glenshiel has a low law level. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate. Machine guns, other automatic weapons, portable energy weapons, and other military weapons, body pistols, explosives, and poison gas are typically regulated or prohibited.

World Technology Level (TL)

Glenshiel possesses a Technology Level of TL–7.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early video and early satellite communication networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fuel cells, solar energy, and geothermal power sources.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, hovercraft, and bullet trains.
  • Water: Hydrofoils and early triphibians.
  • Air: Hang gliders and supersonic jets.
  • Space: Deep space probes and interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

References

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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 27. (dot map)
• J. Andrew Keith. Ascent to Anekthor (Gamelords, 1984), 11.
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11. (dot map)
• Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 11,50. (dot map)
• Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), 22.