Big Nine

The Big Nine, really the Big Eight, are the superpowers of Charted Space, the largest, most powerful supra-polities:

1. Aslan Hierate
2. Droyne Oytrip Yatroy
3. Hive Federation
4. Solomani Confederation
5. Third Imperium
6. Two Thousand Worlds
7. Vargr Extents
8. Ziru Sirka (subsumed)
9. Zhodani Consulate

Library Data Referral Tree

Cultural Mores

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• Cultural Mores
  • Aeonic Stability
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Big Nine
  • Chimera Species
  • Cloning
  • Computer
  • Cultural Affinity
  • Eugenics
  • First Contact
  • Gentlesophonce
  • Martial Arts
  • Megastructure
  • Metempsychosis
  • Panet Relationship
  • Relict Regeneration
  • Robotics
  • Six Races
  • Slavery
  • Synthetics
  • Traveller Gene
  • Uplift
  • Winkle

Description (Specifications)

The Major Races dominate Charted Space culturally, economically, militarily, scientifically, technologically, and in almost every other method imaginable.

Stateless Vilani or Subtle Vilani State?

While nine in number, the Vilani are a subsumed and conquered people, so some dispute the number and think of them as the Big Eight.

• Their state, the Ziru Sirka, was defeated and conquered by another state, the Terran Confederation, over a thousand years ago.
• However, while most Vilani in 1105 are a part of the Third Imperium, their lack of an official state or polity does not impede them from having an oversize economic and cultural influence.
• The Vilani Bureaux or megacorporations still economically dominate much of interstellar market.
• And the Vilani language and culture are still widespread throughout Charted Space even if hated in many areas.
• Anglic and Vilani are the two most common trade languages or lingua francas throughout Charted Space.

The Mysteries of the Droyne & a Possible Shadow State?

No information yet available.

• Droyne Oytrip Yatroy
• Ancients
• Chirpers

History & Background (Dossier)

The current Big Nine are cogent to the present period of the Third Imperium and many were not known or literally did not exist during the early Imperiums.

Terran Mongol & Chinese Empires

No information yet available.

• Who ate whom? The Mongol army or the Chinese culture?

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.

• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science