Senlis (TR 2108) (world)

Senlis/Pax Rulin (Trojan Reach 2108)
Classic Era (1116)	B671633-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 6 Moderate (5 million) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F6 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	0

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Senlis is a nonindustrial hellworld with a population struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often form intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
• This world is also the overall capital of an interstellar government with the massive extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• It is a member of the Senlis Foederate in the Pax Rulin Subsector of Trojan Reach Sector.

• This world has a nearby Naval Base, usually associated with military starships.
• This world has a nearby Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

The only body of water on the surface is the Great Lake, an expanse of brackish, tainted water.

Monostellar System

Senlis Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Senlis F6 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1.25	6280 - 6350	2.18366
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0063	0.1226	1.36 - 2.36	0.63	6.3
	Orbit #	*	0	4	2	6

History & Background (Dossier)

Senlis is a non-industrial Hellworld. Over 70% of the planet is utterly uninhabitable. without significant technological aid.

World Starport

Senlis 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.

World Technology Level

Senlis possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A 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: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Government

Senlis is governed by Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy. A single family or small group provides the leadership and important positions in the government. These positions are inherited by member of the group or their family members. The organization may be monarchy, with titles passed to family members. Or a plutocracy where inheritance of the family fortune includes government position. Or the organization may be more typical organization with positions of power inherited.

The rulers of Senlis control access to drinkable water, and social status is defined by the freshness of one's water. Higher-class citizens live further upriver.

Population

5,000,000

Economic

The Baraccai Technum trading cartel has appointed a Factor to the mainworld.

Settlements

The only body of water on the surface of Senlis is the Great Lake, an expanse of brackish, tainted water. Most of the world's population dwell along great artificial canals that surround the Great Lake.

• At the head of each canal network is a huge water-purification plant controlled by the rulers of Senlis.
• There are nine of these canal networks, and at the head of each is a huge water-purification plant.
• For centuries the Senlis government has used drugs added to the water supply to sedate or manipulate the emotions of the population according to political need.

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.

• Classic Traveller Adventure 4 Leviathan
• Mongoose Traveller: Aslan
• Gareth Hanrahan. The Pirates of Drinax (Mongoose Publishing, 2017), 144.