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== Description / Specifications == | == Description / Specifications == | ||
The rimward border of the Distant Fringe lies on the edge of the [[Great Void]], a huge interstellar rift, and is surrounded on spinward, coreward and trailing sides by areas of low stellar density called the [[Moat Rifts]]. | The rimward border of the Distant Fringe lies on the edge of the [[Great Void]], a huge interstellar rift, and is surrounded on spinward, coreward and trailing sides by areas of low stellar density called the [[Moat Rifts]]. | ||
− | * The Distant Fringe proper includes the whole of both [[Halcyon Sector]] and [[Far Home Sector]], and parts of [[Divide Sector]], [[Gulf Sector]], | + | * The Distant Fringe proper includes the whole of both [[Halcyon Sector]] and [[Far Home Sector]], and parts of [[Divide Sector]], [[Gulf Sector]], [[Shadow Rift Sector]], [[Course Sector]], and [[Bourne Sector]]. |
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== History & Background / Dossier == | == History & Background / Dossier == |
Revision as of 18:47, 23 June 2017
The Distant Fringe is a region of space abount 600 parsecs spinward-rimward of Terra, officially settled in 2255AD by humans fleeing the destruction of Terra at the hands of the Vilani Imperium.
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What if the Vilani had won the Interstellar Wars and there was no Rule of Man? And the losing humans fled rimward in a great caravan of starships, a Last Armada.
- That is the premise that veteran Traveller writer Alegoric tackled when he created his Distant Fringe setting.
Description / Specifications
The rimward border of the Distant Fringe lies on the edge of the Great Void, a huge interstellar rift, and is surrounded on spinward, coreward and trailing sides by areas of low stellar density called the Moat Rifts.
- The Distant Fringe proper includes the whole of both Halcyon Sector and Far Home Sector, and parts of Divide Sector, Gulf Sector, Shadow Rift Sector, Course Sector, and Bourne Sector.
History & Background / Dossier
Jump Technology
Jump drive technology within the Distant Fringe is limited to Jump-2, utilising the DeVoss Drive.
- The total population is 114.9 billion sophonts: there are 79 billion humans and 35.9 billion members of native sophont species.
Worlds & Sectors / Astrography
This Astrographic Region is primarily found in the following areas:
- Abyss Sector
- Bourne Sector
- Chasm Sector
- Course Sector
- Deep Sector
- Divide Sector
- Extent Sector
- Fallow Sector
- Far Home Sector
- Gulf Sector
- Halcyon Sector
- Shadow Rift Sector
References & Contributors / Sources
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science