-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [TML] Jaen/Cruis Margin 2921 Landgrab Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:59:32 +0000 From: "Michael McKeown" Reply-To: The Traveller Mailing List To: tml@travellerrpg.com This is based on the UWP in Gateway to Destiny by QLI. I based the system design on GT: First In and the GT explanation of the law level code. Helpful comments before submission are welcome :) More material and graphics by the ³Baron² on the Citizens of the Imperium messageboards in the IISS area :) Starport - A primitive facility with a concrete landing pad set up and no refueling or repair capacity Size ­ 5,000 mile diameter Atmosphere - Standard oxygen nitrogen mix atmosphere Hydrographics ­ 70% of the world is covered by oceans Population 30 million people Government - Feudal Technocracy Law Level ­ canıt posses a firearm outside of oneıs home Tech Level ­ 7 Planetary System. Jaen is the 2nd planet orbiting a G6V main sequence yellow star. The star has a companion star M2V a red dwarf. Small moon (10-2000 miles diameter) Large moon (2000 miles diameter-60, 000 miles diameter) Planet AUıs from Star 1st planet Tallkos .692 Jaen 1.04 (1 small moon) Asteroid Belt 1.74 (Jaen IV) 4th Planet 3.148 (7,400 miles in diameter, frigid desert like planet 1 large moon) (Jaen IV) 5th Planet 5.9966 (Ice covered rockball, 9,5000 miles in diameter, 2 large moons) 6th planet - Gas Giant 11.59 (114, 000 miles in diameter, 5 small moons, 1 large moon) 7th planet- Gas Giant 2.74 (135,000 diameter, 11 small moons, 3 larger ones) 8th ­ planet Gas Giant 45.14 (98,000 diameter, 8 small moons, 2 large moons) Tallkos Y100000-0 Jaen 1 - Moon H100000-7 Belt Y100000-0 Jaen IV Y911000-0 Large GG Large GG Government - The Jaenian Agricultural Council promotes the food and plant life exports that are key to the planetary economy. They also run the planet. The Council is composed of a total of fifteen members, twelve of whom are leaders of the large Agricultural Guilds that grow the crops that make up the largest source of income for the planet. The other three members of members of large scientific or other industrial groups that rotate membership on the Council. Guild leadership is hereditary and often is tied to past family mechanical, scientific or economic expertise. The Council controls the planet with almost an iron hand. Government censors control planetary communication and recreation broadcasts. The government sets strict price controls for food and consumer goods and controls offworld travel. The three rotating members have been pushing to change the name of the ruling council to the Jaenian Planetary Council. The guilds are very conservative in nature. The Agricultural Guilds marry amongst themselves. It would be unheard of for a member of the Tupella Producers Guild for example, to marry a member of the Petrochemical Society. History ­ Jaen is a backwater world in the Cruis Margin sector. Human Settlers reached the planet many years before the Long Night came and with the Long Night the planetary tech level dropped. The first settlers came here because of the climate, the near Earthlike atmosphere and large water percentage. The farm equipment that they brought soon became a key part of their livelihood and the key to day-to-day life. The hundreds of acres of farmland soon covered a good percentage of the land. Petrochemical deposits were also discovered but the agricultural council controlled their exploitation. The Jaenian Agricultural Council promotes the food and plant life exports that are key to the planetary economy runs the planet. The first members of the Council as planetary legend has it were a few of the settlerıs mechanics and one of the ship captains. The mechanics were vital to keeping the agricultural machinery running. The large white tupella flowers and the yellow-green halmenta fruit (which is similar in taste and texture to the Terran apple) are two of the main exports of the planet. The local farmers also grow Terran onions, potatoes and cabbages. Several indigenous wildlife species have been bred for commercial production. The oceans are home to a variety of marine life, which is harvested for protein for the worldıs population. Petrochemical deposits have recently been discovered in a relatively shallow portion of a large ocean about 120 miles southeast of the capital city. Ninolv is the capital city and the largest city on the planet, with a population of 400,000 people. Large buildings make up the city. The populous in the city both work and live in sizable Urbanates where they both work and live. The schools and recreational areas are inside the urbantes as well. Rural workers live in smaller sized urbantes around the planet, that are similar to the large urbanates. Ninolv sits along the shores of a large ocean and is home to the worldıs starport. The starport is a downport outside the city limits and is patrolled by the council guards to prevent outsiders from causing disturbances while loading and unloading their goods. The Mercantile Concord is the planets largest trading partner in the subsector. The Conord sends a far trader each month to the planet to pick up food and other exports in return for importing cheap higher tech consumer goods such as Vid players. Complaints from their merchants about the primitiveness of the starport facilities are often heard offworld. But the demand and the supply for the flowers and the halmenta fruit are steady, even reaching to the Ten Thousand Worlds, which is rumored to be interested in sending an investigatory trading mission to the world. The planetary government has been sending probes to the outer system and has established a small scientific base on the planetary moon. The rockets are powered by liquid oxygen and are launched from a secure government-controlled starport. The government has recently negotiated an agreement with a mining company from the Mercantile Concord to explore for minerals in the systems planetary belt. The Mercantile Concord has been pressuring the government to upgrade the starport. The average main planetary temperature is 47 degrees Fahrenheit. Adventure Seeds: Scientists on the planetary moon have picked up a communications signal from the systemıs asteroid belt, yet the Mercantile Concord corporate mineral survey of the system is not due to start for 4 months. The PCıs are transporting supplies aboard their ship to the base. Can they assist? What is the source of the signal? Sakura Megis a daughter of a leading member of the Halmenta Growers union has fallen in love with Ishugi Marron a son of a member of the Oceanic Mining Guild. Can the PCıs assist in arranging a marriage? Will violence break out?? Mike McKeown