Okay, as requested I’ve been looking at Jenghe and, although I haven't come up with anything concrete yet, I felt a quick update was in order to share my initial thoughts.
Running through some online bombardment simulators I find it hard to believe that a moon could crash into the mainworld and cause the seas to rise appreciably without wiping out all life in the process. Further the population seems to be increasing at a slow but steady rate over the long term (doesn’t seem like a recovering population). So I’m rejecting the non-canon description on the Traveller Wiki.
I found two other versions online: one by Andreas Schroth (about a world under corporate domination) and one by Chris Slee (featuring Clans and the colony being financially indebted to Regina).
I then looked at a few different system generation rules. They all said that the amount of atmospheric oxygen was dependent on the size of the hydrosphere. Given that hydro factor 9 (85-94%) there would be a quite high oxygen rate. And with the atmosphere being dense to begin with this means that it’s almost impossible not to have the amount of oxygen so high as to result in oxygen intoxication in anyone breathing it unaided. In other words the atmospheric taint is “high oxygen” (not fallout from a geological disaster or seaweed pollen or whatever).
The trade codes list Jenghe as “Ni”. In other words it is a net importer of industrial goods and it is neither a net importer or net exporter of agricultural goods. So, the population can live off the local fish but don’t export it in great quantities. But they do import machinery. They must trade something for that ... given oceans teaming with life (producing all that oxygen) perhaps there are significant petrochemical deposits under the seabed. Maybe the mine the oil for export. (This is starting to sound vaguely like the film The Abyss.)
Turning to the mater of orbits: the primary star is M0V, which means the habitable zone is orbit 0. This makes for a short year ... but it also means the world is almost certainly tidal locked. Now I need to figure out the implications of that: boiling on one side, frozen on the other?
Running through some online bombardment simulators I find it hard to believe that a moon could crash into the mainworld and cause the seas to rise appreciably without wiping out all life in the process. Further the population seems to be increasing at a slow but steady rate over the long term (doesn’t seem like a recovering population). So I’m rejecting the non-canon description on the Traveller Wiki.
I found two other versions online: one by Andreas Schroth (about a world under corporate domination) and one by Chris Slee (featuring Clans and the colony being financially indebted to Regina).
I then looked at a few different system generation rules. They all said that the amount of atmospheric oxygen was dependent on the size of the hydrosphere. Given that hydro factor 9 (85-94%) there would be a quite high oxygen rate. And with the atmosphere being dense to begin with this means that it’s almost impossible not to have the amount of oxygen so high as to result in oxygen intoxication in anyone breathing it unaided. In other words the atmospheric taint is “high oxygen” (not fallout from a geological disaster or seaweed pollen or whatever).
The trade codes list Jenghe as “Ni”. In other words it is a net importer of industrial goods and it is neither a net importer or net exporter of agricultural goods. So, the population can live off the local fish but don’t export it in great quantities. But they do import machinery. They must trade something for that ... given oceans teaming with life (producing all that oxygen) perhaps there are significant petrochemical deposits under the seabed. Maybe the mine the oil for export. (This is starting to sound vaguely like the film The Abyss.)
Turning to the mater of orbits: the primary star is M0V, which means the habitable zone is orbit 0. This makes for a short year ... but it also means the world is almost certainly tidal locked. Now I need to figure out the implications of that: boiling on one side, frozen on the other?
