K'shek Cluster

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The K'shek Cluster is a group of stars that forms part of the Demon Cluster. It lies on the edge of the Great Void.

Details / Specifications

The K'shek Cluster is named for the K'shek system and its bright primary star. It lies within Sath Subsector in Far Home Sector and is accessible by conventional jump-1 vessels.

The K'shek Cluster contains 6 systems and lies within Sath Subsector in Far Home Sector. It is named for the blue main sequence primary star of the K'shek system (2737 Far Home) and is accessible by conventional jump-1 vessels.

The K'Shek Cluster forms part of the territory of the Sath Alliance. Its worlds are entirely dominated by the Sath, a minor Sophont species.

The Cluster is the power base of the Shikh’aa Faction. The main spoken language within the Cluster is Kha’thak.

Ch'kaahi, the Homeworld of the Sath, lies within the Cluster.

Physical Astrography

Rifts & Voids

Other Astrographic Features

Nebula

  • The Cauldron Nebula, lying within Cauldron Sector, some 86 parsecs to coreward-trailing, can be seen as a star-studded luminous region in night-time skies from all of the worlds of the Cluster.

Bright Stars

  • Basilisk's Eye (1723 Tarchon Sector). The extremely luminous white supergiant star, lying around 122 parsecs to coreward-trailing, can be clearly seen from all of the worlds of the Cluster.
  • Demon's Eye (1621 Far Home Sector). The intensely luminous blue supergiant star lying approximately 15 parsec to spinward-coreward at its closest point, can be clearly seen from all of the worlds of the Cluster even in daylight.
  • Intens, the white bright giant primary star of the Orret system, can be clearly seen from all of the worlds of the Cluster. It is a beacon marking the way to new worlds and new frontiers.

Jump Bridges

A number of Jump Bridges have been constructed to give Jump-1 vessels access to the K'shek Cluster and the Chaiik system, the seat of the Issh’t’ka:

World Listing

The following systems and worlds are a part of the K'shek Cluster:

6 of 6 World articles in K'shek Cluster
Ch'kaahi  •  Ish'ka  •  K'shek  •  Kach'k  •  Sii'kh Shi  •  Sshkih  •  
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Political Astrography

Demographics

Population: XX.XX billion Sophonts.

Native Sophonts

The Sath, native to Ch'kaahi.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are the most commonly spoken within the Cluster:

Polities

The K'shek Cluster is a part of the Sath Alliance: its systems are controlled by the powerful Shikh’aa Faction of the Alliance. Humans are not welcome within Alliance territory: those few humans that stray into the K'shek Cluster are generally met with a hostile reception and are closely monitored at all times.

Interstellar Relations

The Shikh’aa Faction is focused on internal development and expansion into the clusters of unclaimed worlds lying within the Moat Rifts and Great Void. Much of its recent effort has gone into the construction of the Ith-Saa-Ka Waypoint, lying within interstellar hex (3038) of Far Home Sector and it is preparing large-scale colonisation of the worlds of the Hak'tha Spread.

The Shikh’aa Faction does not trust the Ka’sa and Khas'ahi Factions and does not approve of their frivolous and cavalier wars against the humans. It is obliged by honor and by treaty to offer some degree of support to its fellow Sath, but it maintain large defense forces and powerful garrisons on its worlds in case they see easier targets closer to home.

  • The worlds of the Cluster teem with activity and its ports are lousy with ships.

Capitals

History & Background

Sath detest humans, who they regard as interlopers and thieves who have stolen "their" region of space. Humans have held them back and thwarted every effort that they have made to claim their rightful place among the stars. They have been restricted to the Sha'a Cluster and the K'shek Cluster while humans have seized everything else.

Humans have always been extremely reluctant to provide any jump-2 drives to the Sath. As a consequence the Sath have been dependent on jump-1 designs and have made extensive use of Jump Bridges, particularly the Sch'ikaa and Tiik'sch Waypoints, to connect the two clusters of stars that form the heart of their territories.

The Sath gained the ability to manufacture their own jump-2 drives during the middle years of the 56th century and this advance has opened a whole new era, allowing them to compete on equal terms with humans for the first time in their history. They have begun to flex their muscles and use their new technology, spilling out into human-dominated space.

Major Historical Events

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