Distant Fringe

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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 Distant Fringe lies on the edge of the Great Void, a huge interstellar rift, and is surrounded on all 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, Shadow Rift sector, Course sector, and Bourne sector.

History & Background / Dossier

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:

  1. Abyss Sector
  2. Bourne Sector
  3. Chasm Sector
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