The Beyond Sector/meta

Meta-History & Background

The Classic Traveller Paranoia Press Beyond book has been declared non-canon (but keep reading).

• The data for this non-canon version of the sector is located here: Beyond Sector/Paranoia Press.

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1. In 1981, the Classic Traveller Paranoia Press Beyond was published.
2. In 1991, Alien - Solomani & Aslan was published.
3. In 1997, the Classic Traveller Paranoia Press Beyond underwent 1991 online updates by Chuck Kallenbach.

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• As of Fall 2016, this sector is under construction and undergoing active development.
• It has been T5 Second Survey reviewed and updated to T5 standards, but it is not yet in final form.

Notes (2017)

The Paranoia Press Beyond material has since been vetted through the T5SS process has been largely re-canonized and is "In Review". This material has referenced the 1991 updates by Chuck Kallenbach, and has been somewhat altered relative to the published Paranoia Press product due to the T5SS vetting process.

The Sunbane data is now non-canonical.

• --WHULorigan (talk) 15:49, 7 February 2017 (EST)

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The "official" reason for the discrepancy between the published Beyond by Paranoia Press and the canonical version is given by Chuck Kallenbach as follows:

Surveys: In the period between the beginning of Imperial explorations into Zhodani territory in 500 and the start of the First Frontier War in 589, the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service made a Class I survey of the Vanguard Reaches. Largely a record of stellar types and superficial system data, this survey went into little detail and discovered no significant minor races. This first survey was used as a basis for information gathering by the Allarton Corporation in the early 900's.

The Corporation's records continued to expand until, along with the Travellers' Aid Society, they were commissioned to do a full scale Class V survey of the entire sector by Grand Duke Ardesh Varen in the year 1046.

This major survey project was finally published in the year 1106 by the Travellers' Aid Society. The fledgling Royal Scouts of the Duchy of Trelyn were also enlisted to aid in this task, and between the Scouts, the TAS and the Allarton Corporation, the project fell apart.

The final survey, as published, was a cornucopia of hearsay, legends, rumors and fabrications. Wild tales of ringworlds, sphereworlds, rosettes and a few nonexistent companies were presented as authoritative data. The 1106 TAS Survey was such a compilation of misinformation that learned starfarers attempted to obtain the Allarton records of the early 900's, which were much more reliable.

Several years after the publication of the TAS survey, Grand Duchess Dyana commissioned a new survey by the Royal Scouts to include their own experience and new techniques from the IISS. Now, some twenty years in the making, this RSDT Survey of 1120 is available to interstellar travellers in the Reaches. It easily sets new benchmarks for surveys of the area, and these data are as complete as the most recent Imperial surveys.

• --WHULorigan (talk) 12:55, 14 March 2017 (EDT)

Notes (2015)

The Classic Traveller Paranoia Press Beyond book has been declared non-canon.

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The World list and subsectors are based on the Second Survey as per T5SS.

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