Distant Fringe

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 Terrans had 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

The Distant Fringe has a general technological level of TL12. It is more advanced in some areas (specifically computers and robotics) but is more backward in others (such as Space Tech).

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 broad Astrographic Region contains the following areas:

1. Abyss Sector
2. Bourne Sector
3. Chasm Sector
4. Course Sector
5. Deep Sector
6. Divide Sector
7. Extent Sector
8. Fallow Sector
9. Far Home Sector
10. Gulf Sector
11. Halcyon Sector
12. Shadow Rift Sector

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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