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* 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]]. | * 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]]. | ||
− | The Demon's Eye, a blue bright giant star, lies at the center of Far Home Sector and can be clearly seen from every world across the Distant Fringe and far beyond. Why the Terrans, seeking to hide from their [[Vilani Imperium|Vilani]] pursuers, should choose to settle a region with such a bright beacon at its center is something of a mystery | + | The Demon's Eye, a blue bright giant star, lies at the center of Far Home Sector and can be clearly seen from every world across the Distant Fringe and far beyond. Why the Terrans, seeking to hide from their [[Vilani Imperium|Vilani]] pursuers, should choose to settle a region with such a bright beacon at its center is something of a mystery. Some hold that it proves that the [[Last Armada]] was at the very limit of its endurance and was forced to halt, while others contend that the location was deliberately chosen in order to give stragglers somewhere to aim towards. |
== History & Background / Dossier == | == History & Background / Dossier == |
Revision as of 05:40, 4 July 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 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 its 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.
The Demon's Eye, a blue bright giant star, lies at the center of Far Home Sector and can be clearly seen from every world across the Distant Fringe and far beyond. Why the Terrans, seeking to hide from their Vilani pursuers, should choose to settle a region with such a bright beacon at its center is something of a mystery. Some hold that it proves that the Last Armada was at the very limit of its endurance and was forced to halt, while others contend that the location was deliberately chosen in order to give stragglers somewhere to aim towards.
History & Background / Dossier
The total population is 114.9 billion sophonts: there are 79 billion humans and 35.9 billion members of native sophont species.
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.
Worlds & Sectors / Astrography
This broad Astrographic Region contains the following sectors:
- 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