Shen-Yang (world)

Shen-Yang/Star Lane (Deneb 0727)
Classic Era (1116)	C665520-5 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 5 Moderate (500 thousand) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 0 No Law Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
New Era (1200)	B665620-9 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 6 Moderate (4 million) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 0 No Law Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F7 V K1 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Shen-yang is an agricultural, nonindustrial, pre-rich garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts, 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.
• Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
• This world contains an archaeological site with suspected high-tech remnants of the now-vanished Ancients precursor race.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Star Lane Subsector of Deneb Sector in the Domain of Deneb.
• This world has an Imperial Scout base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.

Description (Planetology)

No information yet available.

Binary Solar System

Shen-yang Binary Star System

Shen-yang
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F7 V	Main Sequence		1.21	6180 - 6280	1.94872
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0123	0.1158	1.29 - 2.24	1.23	12.3
	Orbit #	*	0	4	3	7
	Remarks
Shen-yang
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K1 V	Main Sequence		0.86	5100 - 5170	0.58985
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0074	0.0637	0.76 - 1.36	0.74	7.4
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

Shen-Yang is an agricultural Imperial garden world located in Star Lane Subsector of Deneb Sector.

• The system contains a Scout Base.
• Unconfirmed Ancient ruins or sites of unknown significance are reportedly found in the system.

Non-canon: Shen-Yang (Spirit of Light) was settled in the second century by Taoist monks from Solomani space. Because of their libertarian mindset, the Shui-he (Harmonious Water) sect eschews most kinds of onerous legal prohibitions or complicated government structures. Committed to their practice of Wu-Wei philosophy, they seem little affected by the winds of offworld politics, indeed they seem to thrive on them. Natural population increase among the monks, and immigration of people attracted to the world's tranquility, allowed it to expand beyond the monastery and become a productive if rather ordinary seeming world.

For centuries an obscure agricultural world, two developments since the Collapse has made this world important.

1. For one thing its philosophical and religious practices, Taoism, have become very popular for an interstellar mainstream in a state of spiritual starvation and introspection at the beginning of the 1200s. Taoism is actually less a religion than a mystical philosophy, a guide into practical living that never decisively answers certain question, and seems the least likely candidate to attain mainstream acceptance. But its emphasis on the individual, its strong ethical code and personification of the sacred, and its idea that life is the meeting the circumstances of an individual (fate) and their morals and principles (destiny) has made this world a mecca for coreligionists and ordinary citizens seeking an answer for this new era of doubt, skepticism and uncertainty.
2. The other development is the discovery that the monks of Shui-he were concealing a major Ancient site known as the Valley of Souls locally. It is really a set of building foundations left behind after planetary bombardment annihilated the city it was supporting. Finally revealed by the monks in 1154, excavation by the Regency government and private expeditions have found very few new artifacts of technology of significance. But they did find thousands of graves, occupied by the remains of various Droyne of all castes. Apparently the Shen-Yang Ancients developed ornate burial rituals, and their deceased were interred in magnificent tombs under their city. This is a double coup for xenoarchaeologists, who previously went without the kind of grave goods so essential to their work with other ancient cultures, and it personalizes the Ancients while undercutting the pernicious amateur treasure-hunting that has always afflicted their field. The site remains under the control of the monastery, and attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists, researchers and Droyne each year.

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

• TNE The Regency Sourcebook (UWP only)
• Mongoose Traveller: Deneb Sector (UWP only)
• Peter Gray - Traveller TNE Mailing List The Stronghold: Star Lane Subsector published 23 August 2001