Enchai

Starport	E	Frontier - no facilities
Size	3	Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g)
Atmosphere	3	Vacuum (very thin)
Hydrographics	5	Wet World 50%
Population	7	Moderate (70 million0 million)
Government	9	Impersonal Bureaucracy
Law	8	High Law (controlled blades)
Tech Level	3	Pre-Industrial (basic science)

Primary Star

G7 V M7 V

Atmosphere

Very Thin

Off-world presence

No

Zoetic individuals

Yes

Source

Reference

Canon

No

Also see

The Enchai of Encha are a Minor Non-Human Race native to Fulani Sector.

Their homeworld is located within Encha Subsector.
Their technological competency is rated as proficient.

Description (Specifications)

Enchai are naturally adapted to far colder temperature ranges and substantially lower atmospheric pressures than humans, and prefer a slightly lower gravity.

Physiology

Enchai are descended from open terrain-dwelling omnivores. They cheerfully consume almost any kind of organic material.

Body pattern: bilaterally symmetrical non-humanoid. Some humans consider them a to have a body shape parallel to slugs.

The average Enchai is around 2.5 meters long, can raise itself up to a height of around a meter, and masses around 200 kg.

Psychology

Enchai psychology is driven by factors common to many sophonts:

Acquisition (stemming from the need to gather adequate nutrition),
Preservation (derived from the need to continue their personal existence), and
Perpetuation (the urge to continue the species).

Okyar are considered slow, deliberate, and predictable.

Demographics

The total known population equals 70 million individuals.

Native Culture

Homogeneity: 9 (discordant)
Acceptance: 5 (very aloof)
Strangeness: 3 (somewhat typical)
Symbols: 3 (very concrete)

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Timeline

No information yet available.

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Charted Space:

Fulani Sector
- Encha Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

Encha, a intensely cold world with a thin atmosphere.

Local Technology

Encha possesses a Technology Level of TL–3.

Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Printing press, the mechanical telegraph, and the first audio recordings.
Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Coal or other simple hydrocarbon fuels and early steam engines.
Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Bicycles and early steam coaches with advanced roadways.
- Water: Advanced sailing and early steam engine ships.
- Air: The earliest hot air balloons.

Local Government

Encha 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.

Local Law

Encha 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 Listing: 1105

Significant communities of this race are known to dwell within the following systems and worlds:

No world articles for Enchai

References & Contributors (Sources)

This article is missing content for one or more detailed sections. Additional details are required to complete the article. You can help the Traveller Wiki by expanding it.

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.

Author & contributor: Jo Grant of CORE (generated data)
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS