Thengin (world)

Thengin/Sabine (Deneb 0518) Milieu 1116 B567998-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 9 High (3 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G9 V
Worlds	10
Gas Giants	5
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Impersonal bureaucracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	9C5C
Army Size (BEs)	12000
Economic Details
Technology Level	12
Economic Extension	G8E+3 Resources G Extremely abundant Labor 8 Moderate (300 million) Infrastructure E Comprehensive Efficiency +3 Improved
Importance Extension	3
Resource Units	5,376
GWP (BCr)	17,580
World Trade Number	5.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	147,242
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	7
Building Capacity (Tons)	3,449,999
Port employees	128,660
Port passengers (annual)	77,100

Thengin has a comfortably breathable atmosphere. The system has a population between 1 and 10 billion sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Sabine Subsector of Deneb Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Thengin, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and a baronet, and the fiefdom of a count. All three are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.

Thengin (world)/Sabine (Deneb 0518) New Era A567998-E Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 9 High (5 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level E High Stellar (anti-grav cities)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Impersonal bureaucracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	9C5E
Army Size (BEs)	7000
Economic Details
Technology Level	14
Economic Extension	G8E+0 Resources G Extremely abundant Labor 8 Moderate (500 million) Infrastructure E Comprehensive Efficiency +0 Average
Importance Extension	3
Resource Units	1,792
GWP (BCr)	26,250
World Trade Number	5.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	222,389
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	7
Building Capacity (Tons)	3,219,999
Port employees	76,835
Port passengers (annual)	143,800

Era: New Era

Thengin has a comfortably breathable atmosphere. The system has a population between 1 and 10 billion sophonts. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Sabine Subsector of Deneb Sector. This world has a nearby Regency Naval Base, capable of handling warships.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Thengin, sometimes known as Thingen, is a high-population Imperial world located on the Sabinar Main.

Stellar Data

Thengin has a solitary primary star.

Thengin
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.9	5270 - 5380	0.69159
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0079	0.069	0.81 - 1.44	0.79	7.9
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	7
	Remarks

System Data

Lurent planetoid ships may be found, trading, in the inner system; or else in the system's Oort clouds, refuelling.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

Thengin's surface was once covered in a huge world ocean. Over the eons a massive amount of limestone sediment was deposited. After about half a billion years many of these sediments were uplifted into continents by tectonic action, and the heat transformed the limestone into massive deposits of metamorphosed marble.

Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

Thengin is a strategic world. Within the Sabine Subsector, it is a major political player with a strong power base and a formidable military, a natural rival to nearby Magash (Deneb 0316). Thengin helps oversee the worlds of the Sabine Backwater.

Thengin was historically the capital of a small Vargr state, the Thengin Uedzaz, around the year 210. However, the planet held fewer than 1,000,000 Vargr and these were overwhelmed by Imperial settlements so that the Vargr population was totally submerged in the subsequent influx of Humaniti. Vilani from Lishun Sector were the primary Human colonists.

The Imperial colony and Naval Base were established by GSbAG in the early 300s to support the Vargr Campaigns.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Thengin, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the estate and fiefdom of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.

World Starport

Thengin has a Class B Starport, a good quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

• There is an associated Naval Base, hosting elements of the 195th Fleet.

World Demographics

• 99% of the world's population are Human
  • A high proportion of these claim Vilani extraction, but most are -- in practice -- a mix of various Imperial Humans
• 1% of the world's population are Gvegh Vargr (About 2 million in 1105)

World Government (G)

Thengin is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

World Law Level (L)

Thengin has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All blade weapons and firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

World Technology Level (TL)

Thengin possesses a Technology Level of TL–12 or TL-C in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land, Water & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-3.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

Thengin is supplied with starships by Seleen and, to a lesser extent, Ara Pacis.

World Culture

Because of the abundance of marbles, these compose much of the building material used in the world's cities, giving it its nickname of the "White World". Older settlements resemble the adobe or stone communities that once dotted the equatorial or tropical regions of Terra and Vland. Buildings are built close to one another, and are often linked together on hilltops and mesas. Towers that resemble Solomani minarets are a common architectural feature. Spacious, well lit footpaths wend their way between neighborhoods. The urban culture that has developed is well renowned for its tradition, authenticity of spirit, generosity and communal outlook.

Other Data

White for the Solomani has different meanings. For Europeans it represents purity, for Asians it represents death. To the Vilani white is the color of memory, of the dead past that nonetheless resonates for the present generation. Two themes dominate the local culture as a result: an emphasis upon hospitality and entertainment, and the preservation of memory.

Thengin -- or Thingen -- was first settled (by Humans) in the 200s by Vilani colonists from Lishun Sector. The world's continents are located almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, and enjoy pleasant temperatures year round. The local soils and climate were hospitable to the colonists and their agriculture, and they never suffered for want of food or clothing. Rich mineral resources and strong offworld interest in the local tourism industry brought more than enough income to the world for comfort; because of the gentler conditions, the population is somewhat atypical from the accustomed Imperial or Regency norm.

Local society is concentric: the community begins with the individual, whose status is influenced in large part by his success and individual attainment. But more important than the individual is his or her extended family, which can include hundreds of individuals. Local marriage strictures are quite loose, and almost permit multiple marriage. Divorce and separation are common, but no matter what circumstances occur, distant relations by blood or former relations by marriage proliferate because of this structure. The accommodation of these kinship structures, and the maintenance of family and community traditions, explains where the two predominant themes mentioned above originate.

Education and entertainment are the two primary forms of social glue for this society. Educational attainment is heavily stressed because of the honor and prestige it brings a family. But equally important as professional careers are the local poets, artists and singers who keep alive the living language of family and individual experience. Every family has a "Cantor" who presides in family ceremonies, performs marriages, christenings and funerals, and who uses language and imagery to encapsulate the past for future generations. Cantors also act as family recordkeepers, and represent the family's interests in legal proceedings. They also entertain at important gatherings.

As a result of these traditions, local economy emphasises service industries, most notably education and medical services. The world is home to Muriisdi University, one of the largest and most prestigious Ivy Curtain colleges. Unlike its counterparts on Rhylanor and Magash, Muriisdi (Vilani for either "Angel" or an angelic creature) has more emphasis upon the professions (medicine, law) and academic sciences than practical technical matters. The university itself has a faculty and student population into the tens of millions (most of them offworlders), and has campuses scattered around the world. The world's medical facilities are top notch, and attract millions each year in search of cutting edge medical treatments for a variety of diseases.

One unusual side-note about this world: Because of space restrictions the local dead are disposed of by a practice known as excarnation, whereby the corpses are exposed to the open air, and are consumed by scavengers in special atriums. The bones then are either interred in the basements of local homes, or are ground up and used as building material. The former is preferred, but as crowding requires more and more high density construction, the bones are now usually incorporated, though are respectfully retained by the family and recycled into their new dwellings.

Historical Data

In 385, Al Morai out of Mora (Spinward Marches 3124) established subsidised merchant service to Thengin.

World Timeline

These are some of the more important historical events that have affected this world and its surrounding region:

• The Year 0: To rimward, the Third Imperium is founded.
• 75: Regina Subsector in the Spinward Marches is settled, shifting the centre of trade from Deneb to Mora.
• Circa 210: Thengin is the capital of the Thengin Uedzaz, a small Vargr polity.
• 220: Vargr Campaigns begin.
• 298-366: Sabine Subsector is settled by Imperials.
• 300 to 420: The Imperial First Survey.
• 350: Vargr Campaigns end.
• 366: Sabine Subsector admitted to the Imperium.
• 613-622: The Denebian Bad War, part of the Civil War.
• 720: Continued indifference from the major worlds results in the Sabine Minor Uprising, where worlds of the Sabine Backwater fight a series of losing battles in a bid for independence. The major worlds smash the rebellion.
• 1065: The Second Survey is published. Information about the region becomes widely available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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