Hyades Subsector
| Hyades Subsector | ||||||
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| Sector | Canopus | |||||
| Capital | Dione | |||||
| Number of Systems | 23 | |||||
| Majority Control | Solomani Confederation - 83% | |||||
| 2nd Control | Non-Aligned, Human-dominated - 17% | |||||
Hyades Subsector is Subsector A of Canopus Sector.
- It lies within the Solomani Confederation.
- It is also known as Aglaeah Subsector and has previously been known as Somnia Subsector.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
The following astrographic and commercial data has been determined regarding Hyades Subsector:
Astrographic Features[edit]
The subsector is a generally unremarkable area lying within the Solomani Confederation.
- It is an average stellar density region.
- It contains the core region of the Hyades Cluster, a notable astrographic feature.
- The brightest stars in the sector are the evolving blue giants contained within the Hyades Cluster.
Stellar Distribution[edit]
A basic map showing the distribution and size of stars within Hyades Subsector, right:
- The color corresponds to the visible color of the star, which links to its spectral classification.
- The size as shown indicates both the physical size of the object and its relative brightness.
- The core region of the Hyades Cluster is marked by a blue circle.
Note that the stars as depicted are representative. Any star, no matter what its size, is a mere speck within the hex it occupies.
- Ordinary main sequence stars can barely be seen from even a hex away.
- Huge, intensely luminous giant stars can be seen from across the subsector and far beyond.
Rift Regions[edit]
The subsector contains a single rift region:
- The Hulda Waste.
Locally at least, a rift is an astrographic and commercial concept based on Jump Drive performance.
- Most commercial vessels typically use Jump Drives capable of Jump-3 or less.
- Areas that cannot be crossed by Jump-3-capable vessels are denoted as rifts.
- Rifts represent a considerable obstacle to interstellar trade and commerce.
Hyades Cluster[edit]
The Hyades is the nearest open cluster to Terra, lying around 47 parsecs from Sol. It consists of a roughly spherical group of hundreds of stars sharing the same age, place of origin, chemical characteristics, and motion through space. When viewed from the surface of Terra, the Hyades form part of the head of the constellation of Taurus, the Bull.
- The Cluster is visible to the naked eye on worlds across the region.
The core of the Cluster occupies Astrographic Hex Locations 0402, 0502, 0503, and 0602 of the subsector.
- The Cluster contains no known viable worlds and is not marked as a travel destination on commercial star charts.
- The whole of the core region should be considered a Red Zone for travel purposes.
A basic overview of the Cluster:
(Imagery sourced from Traveller Map)
- Note that the stars as depicted are representative. Any star, no matter what its size, is a mere speck within the hex it occupies.
However, the largest of those specks shine extremely brightly.
Within the Cluster[edit]
The core of the Cluster is more than 2.5 parsecs across and lies close to the coreward edge of the subsector.
- It contains around 200 stars, including a number of giant, short-lived B-type stars that have evolved off of the main sequence, several other giants, numerous main sequence stars, a small number of brown dwarf substellar objects, and a few tiny white dwarf stellar remnants.
- The Cluster contains large amounts of ionized gas and dust which diffuse, refract, and reflect the light of the stars, giving it an ethereal glow.
The stars within the Cluster have extremely powerful, wildly fluctuating magnetic fields that interact with one another over vast distances. They twist and sculpt the vast gas clouds that surround them into ghostly bulbs, columns, and spires that can have dimensions measured in thousands of AU.
- Radiation levels within the cluster are extremely high: exposure to local radiation levels causes immediate serious health issues and rapidly damages electronic devices.
- Gravitational effects within the Cluster's core render jump drives either inoperative or extremely likely to suffer a catastrophic misjump: jumping into the cluster is likely to be a one way trip.
- The cluster causes significant interference, strange tones and loud noises, and extreme static on commo and sensors, severely hampering functionality and usage.
Central Anomaly[edit]
The very center of the Cluster is believed to contain a Space-Time Anomaly. The nature of this feature, if it exists, remains unclear.
Broader Effects[edit]
The tidal influence of the stars at the Cluster's core can be measured around ten parsecs away from the core region. The extended halo of stars associated with the cluster (stars sharing very similar physical characteristics and motion) extends rimward deep into Canopus Sector, to spinward into the Ustral Quadrant and Dark Nebula sectors, coreward into Magyar Sector, and trailing into Aldebaran Sector and the Solomani Rim.
- Many of the stars within this region are in the process of escaping from the cluster.
- The cluster's huge stars cause interference, strange tones and noises, and heavy static on commo and sensors for many parsecs around the feature.
Economic Astrography[edit]
The following commercial and economic data regarding the subsector is available:
This subsector forms part of the Oiirl Route, a major trade route connecting the Aslan homeworld of Kusyu with the Solomani Confederation capital of Home. In Hyades, at Bowin Prime, the route merges with another major route out of Ustral Quadrant Sector before turning to trailing, and running through Canopus to Aldebaran Sector, arriving at Home.
Corporations[edit]
Corporations and organizations active within the sector include:
- ConTech, a corporation specializing in life sciences, particularly large-scale bio-terraforming projects, medicine, and cloning.
- Guardian Military Systems, a large corporation involved in defense and armaments manufacture, with its core area of operations within the sector.
- Lamarck Minerals, a corporation with a relatively small core area of operations in the Solomani Rim, but with growing interests in resource extraction and processing throughout the Solomani Sphere.
- Layaefui, an Aslan corporation that specializes in exploration, scouting, and surveying.
- Orion Metallurgy Corporation (OMC), engaged in resource exploration, extraction, and processing throughout the spinward and rimward parts of the Confederation.
- Panstellar, a major transport and logistics corporation.
- Probable Technologies, a scientific research organization involved with academia and heavy industry. It works extensively with the Confederation military.
- Rising Phoenix News Service (RPNS), the premier news and media organization within the Solomani Sphere. It has a strong pro-Confederation bias.
- Solomani Maschinenbau (SolMan) AG, a corporation with interests in heavy engineering and starship manufacture throughout the spinward half of the Confederation.
- Solomani Shipping, a major transport and logistics corporation.
- Transstar, a Solomani megacorporation specializing in transport and logistics. It operates across 13 sectors, represented by the 13 stars in its logo.
- ZeeCorp, a corporation with interests in manufacturing active throughout the Solomani Confederation. It is a major producer of robots.
Goods[edit]
Notable local commodities include:
- (none currently listed)
Security & Defense[edit]
The worlds of the sector are patrolled by the Solomani Navy. It defends Confederation territory, protects Confederation interests, suppresses piracy, and ensures interstellar trade and commerce.
- Confederation vessels may demand customs inspections.
- Some systems are defended by local naval forces.
Clusters & Traces[edit]
High cargo capacity, low jump rating vessels move along the clusters and traces within the subsector, carrying vast amounts of goods and commodities between their member worlds. Jump-2 and Jump-3 feeder routes work their ways around the rifts and voids that dot the region, linking the various clusters and traces.
Aachen Cluster[edit]
The Aachen Cluster has 11 member systems.
(Chart sourced from Traveller Map)
Xianjin-Brimate Cluster[edit]
The Xianjin-Brimate Cluster has 29 member systems.
- It is named for Xianjin, a high technology agricultural world, and Brimate, a major military hub on the Confederation-Hierate border.
- The Cluster is known as the Staai Main within Dark Nebula Sector. The main argument in favor of the name is that the majority of its worlds lie within Staai Subsector.
Yanos Cluster[edit]
The Yanos Cluster is a cluster lying across parts of Hyades Subsector and Yanos Subsector.
- It has 16 member systems.
- It is named for Yanos, a high population garden world lying at its far trailing end.
World Listing[edit]
Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that lie within Hyades Subsector is available.
- The primary source material for all data is Traveller Map.
- Other sources may differ: some elements of the data may be contradictory or incorrect.
- Data is occasionally updated as new information becomes available.
AAB library archives contain expanded data about the following systems:
Note that some Second Survey data, though only 40 years old, may already be out of date.
- Scouting missions gathering reliable, verified data can receive substantial payment.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Solomani Security keeps a close eye on things to ensure the security of the Confederation and the well-being of its loyal citizens. Almost anyone could be a SolSec informant, passing on all sorts of useful information: some gain a reward or benefit for their actions, others are coerced, but many see it as an act of duty to help protect the Solomani state and its interests.
Polity Listing[edit]
Major Powers[edit]
- Solomani Confederation (human powers):
- The subsector lies entirely within the borders of the Solomani Confederation.
Non-Aligned Powers (World-States)[edit]
- Non-Aligned, Human-dominated.
Four human-dominated non-aligned worlds lie within the subsector. They are not members of the Solomani Confederation, choosing instead to remain as technically neutral worlds as a result of complicated domestic politics, belief in self-reliance, and isolationist attitudes. Despite their neutral status, they rely on the Confederation for trade and defense and actively cooperate with Solomani interests.
Historical Powers[edit]
- Terran Mercantile Community (-1862 to -1110). Active across the subsector for almost seven centuries. While it was non-governmental in principle, it actively claimed and exploited vast regions of space, though most of the territory it controlled was barren wilderness.
- Third Imperium (588 to 871). The Imperium claimed the former territories of the Terran Mercantile Community in 588 and directly controlled them until it devolved its authority to the Solomani Autonomous Region in 704. The Mercantile Community had ceased to exist about 1,600 years before and few of the worlds that came under Imperial dominion had any tangible link to it.
- Solomani Autonomous Region (704 to 940).
Native Sophonts[edit]
No sophont species are believed to have originated in this area.
Demographics[edit]
Humaniti (Human races)[edit]
- Solomani (Major Race): widely spread across the region.
- Mixed or other heritage: occasionally encountered across the region.
- Vilani (Major Race): a few genetically distinct individuals and communities.
Linguistic Topography[edit]
The most commonly heard languages are:
- Rim Anglic, a dialect of Anglic and the principal language of the Solomani Confederation.
General Historical Timeline[edit]
Major events that have affected this subsector and the wider region that it lies within:
- -9235: far to coreward, the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
- -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka controls vast territories.
- -2431: Terrans discover jump drive technology.
- -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars. The young Terran Confederation battles against the ancient Vilani Ziru Sirka.
- -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the former Ziru Sirka.
- -1999: the Aslan gain jump drive technology.
- -1862 to -1110: the Terran Mercantile Community is active within the region.
- -1776 to 0: the Long Night.
- -1118 to 380: the Aslan Border Wars.
- -1110 to 588: the Terran Mercantile Community gradually becomes the Old Earth Union, shrinking to control the region around Terra.
- The Year 0: to coreward, the Third Imperium is founded.
- 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the subsector.
- 380: the Peace of Ftahalr ends the ongoing Aslan Border Wars and establishes understandings regarding human and Aslan influence.
- 588: the Old Earth Union and the former territories of the Terran Mercantile Community are annexed by the Imperium, moving its border adjacent to the Aslan Hierate.
- 604-622: the Imperial Civil War.
- 624: the Imperial Express Boat Network is established.
- 704: the Solomani Autonomous Region is formed.
- 800-820: the Psionics Suppressions.
- 871: the Solomani Confederation is founded.
- 940: the Solomani Autonomous Region is dissolved.
- 990-1002: the Solomani Rim War.
- 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey includes data for the subsector.
- 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the subsector becomes widely available.
Subsector Summary[edit]
Hyades, subsector A of Canopus contains 23 worlds with an estimated population of 43 billion, a per capita income of Cr3,812, and a total economy is BCr165,561. These worlds originate an interstellar trade of BCr3,808 through 15 starports (5 Class A, 3 Class B, 6 Class C, 1 Class D) employing 608,900 people. Driving this interstellar trade are three Agricultural (Ag) worlds, one Non-Agricultural (Na) world, three Pre-Agricultural (Pa) worlds, one Pre-Industrial (Pi) world, one Rich (Ri) world, and no Industrial (In) worlds. The governments in Hyades maintain four Naval bases, and two Military bases. The average technology level is 8 (with most between 5 and 10). The highest technology level is 13 at Bream (Canopus 0403).
Hyades, subsector A of Canopus contains 35 stars and 249 identified planets; 12 monostellar systems, ten binary systems, one trinary system, and no systems with four or more stars. 20 of the 23 systems (86%) have native gas giants. There are no Asteroid (As) belts, three Desert (De) worlds, two Garden (Ga) worlds, one Ice-capped (Ic) world, three Poor (Po) worlds, no Vacuum (Va) worlds, and three Water (Wa) or Ocean (Oc) worlds.
Hyades has an estimated population of 43 billion distributed across two High population (Hi) worlds, one Moderate population (Ph) world, ten Non-industrial (Ni) worlds, eight Low population (Lo) worlds, and one Barren (Ba) world. The highest population world is Dione (Canopus 0404). The population consists of 3 sophont groups.
| 3 identified sophont populations in Hyades | |
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Solomani Confederation[edit]
The Solomani Confederation has jurisdiction over 19 worlds with an estimated population of 43 billion, a per capita income of Cr3,813, and a total economy is BCr164,010. These worlds originate an interstellar trade of BCr3,736 through 11 starports (4 Class A, 2 Class B, 4 Class C, 1 Class D) employing 595,390 people. Driving this interstellar trade are two Agricultural (Ag) worlds, one Non-Agricultural (Na) world, two Pre-Agricultural (Pa) worlds, no Pre-Industrial (Pi) worlds, one Rich (Ri) world, and no Industrial (In) worlds. The governments in Solomani Confederation maintain two Naval bases, and two Military bases. The average technology level is 8 (with most between 5 and 10). The highest technology level is 13 at Bream (Canopus 0403).
The Solomani Confederation has an estimated population of 43 billion distributed across two High population (Hi) worlds, no Moderate population (Ph) worlds, ten Non-industrial (Ni) worlds, six Low population (Lo) worlds, and one Barren (Ba) world. The highest population world is Dione (Canopus 0404). The population consists of 3 sophont groups.
- The Solomani Confederation subsector capital of Hyades is Dione (Canopus 0404)
Non-Aligned, Human-dominated[edit]
There are four Non-Aligned Human-dominated worlds in Hyades with an estimated population of 420 million.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M), (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), various pages. (Library data entries)
- John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 11 Library Data (N-Z), (Game Designers Workshop, 1982), various pages. (Library data entries)
- John Harshman, Marc Miller. Solomani (Game Designers Workshop, 1986), IFC, pages 3, 28. (sector named, background for the sector)
- Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), IFC. (Wars of the Imperium: sector named and shown)
- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), pages 8-11, various others. (dot map locating the worlds of the sector, background for the sector)
- Michael Taylor. Fighting Ships of the Solomani (QuikLink Interactive, 2009), page 5. (background for the sector)
- David L. Pulver. Solomani (Mongoose Publishing, 2012), pages 28, 50, 118, 119, various others. (background for the sector)
- Zho Berka's Maps (Classic Era UWP Data for the subsector)
- External Link: Ocean of Storms site (Rebellion Era UWP Data for the subsector)
- Author & Contributor: Rupert Boleyn (data generated to match dot map)
- Author & Contributor: Garnfellow (development of the sector)