Colonnade Province
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| Majority Control | Zhodani Consulate | |||||||||
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The Colonnade Province is a Zhodani frontier province in the Vanguard Reaches Sector, known as "Driantia Steblenzhtia" (Zh. "Vanguard Consulate") among the Zhodani.
This polity has been variously called:
- The Colonnade Administrative District (CAD)
- The Colonade Administration District (CAD)
- The Province of Colonnade
- Driantia Steblenzhtia (Zd. "Vanguard Consulate")
Description (Specifications)[edit]
The province encompasses territory in Far Frontiers Sector and Vanguard Reaches Sector, and is beginning to incorporate worlds in trailing Fulani Sector.
Demographics[edit]
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
In 576, the Colonnade Administrative District was formed and began to integrate itself into the political and commercial structure of both Akigura Subsector in Yiklerzdanzh Sector and Antideluvia Subsector in Far Frontiers. It declared Antideluvia Subsector to be part of its territory in the early 600s, a situation tolerated only because of the huge economic and commercial benefits it brought.
In 626, after the First Frontier War, the Vanguard Consulate, or Driantia Steblenzhtia, was officially formalised to provide a buffer state to rimward of the Zhodani Consulate, and to allow for information gathering on the region. The Zhodani word "steblenzh" is loosely translated as "vanguard", and the name "Vanguard Reaches" was later adopted by most races as the name for the sector. The Zhodani use of the word "vanguard" is clearly a reference to the rimward frontier from a Zhodani perspective, although from an Imperial point of view "vanguard" can refer to the most distant reaches of the Imperium's own spinward frontier.
The original capital world of the district was renamed Chyia Nedlkel after a political radical and exploratory pioneer who advocated the abolition of the nobility in favor of widespread psionic testing of all citizens. The reforms of High Councillor Nedlkel were installed on the world in the Imperial year 666, but subtle efforts by the Consulate leadership have eased the local culture back toward a more conformist stance in the centuries since.
As the Administrative District grew ever more cohesive, fears grew in Antideluvia Subsector that its worlds would be absorbed into the Zhodani Consulate, with the Vanguard perhaps unifying with the Zhodani mainstream. Around 750 the Antideluvian worlds seceded from the Administrative District.
The Vanguard Consulate was reorganized after the Third Frontier War in 996, merging with the Administrative District, and the polity took on its current Anglic name, the Colonnade Province. The Province is patterned quite closely after the workings of the home government in the Zhodani Consulate.
Administrative Capitals[edit]
The current district seats and four regional capitals of the Colonnade Province consist of the following worlds:
- Chyia Nedlkel (0406 Vanguard Reaches)
- Dleiblafia (0514 Vanguard Reaches)
- Niekladlief (0511 Vanguard Reaches)
- Yavakrbi (0521 Vanguard Reaches)
Foreign Relations[edit]
The Colonnade Province maintains good diplomatic relations with the Altarean Confederation. Negotiations with the Trelyn Domain and the Aslan colonies have led to relations that are, at best, neutral. No significant wars have been fought by the Colonnade Province, although a sizable military force has always been maintained.
As of Imperial date 1120, the Colonnade Province governed worlds in 88 systems with a total population of over 36 billion sophonts.
Chief Provincial Consul Listing: 1116[edit]
No information currently available.
Worlds & Cosmology (Astrography)[edit]
Sector Listing: 1116[edit]
This province encompasses locations from the following sectors:
Far Frontiers – Twenty-four Systems; Located in the spin-rimward corner of the sector's Gamma Quadrant.
- Cabala (FarF N) - 1
- Wulfek (FarF M) - 23
Fulani – Nine Systems; Scattered systems on the sector's trailing border.
- Lythgoe (Fula D) – 3
- Vanguard (Fula H) – 6
Vanguard Reaches – Fifty Systems; The main body of the province's territory.
- Andwella (Vang B) - 2
- Dlieblafia (Vang E) - 27
- Issoudun (Vang A) - 18
- Yavakrbi (Vang I) – 3
Yiklerzdanzh - Five Systems; Scattered systems on the sector's trailing border.
World Listing: 1116[edit]
The following systems and worlds can be found within this province:
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Major Historical Events Timeline: 1116[edit]
These are some of the more important historical events that have affected this polity and its territory:
- -2950: Zdodren (Chyia Nedlkel) settled by Vlazhdumecta prospectors.
- -2000: The Zhodani Helix Nebula Expedition uses Zdodren as a staging ground.
- -1582: Sindalian Empire dissidents travel across Vanguard Reaches Sector.
- -1492: Issoudun settled from Fulani Sector as a refuelling and trade outpost.
- -1104: The Zhodani Great Rift Expedition.
- 400: First Wave Imperial settlers begin to arrive in the coreward Vanguard Reaches.
- 576: The Colonnade Administrative District is formed.
- 605: The 'Great Pulse' of Imperial settlers begins, during the turmoil of the Frontier Wars and Civil War.
- 626: The Driantia Steblenzhtia, later to be known as the Zhodani Colonnade Province, is founded. By this time, Zdodren -- now called Zhdeqr -- supports a population in the billions and is the obvious choice as the capital. Its culture mixes Vlazhdumecta and Zhodani customs with a locally evolved tradition of egalitarianism.
- 666: The politician Chyia Nedlkel institutes reforms calling for the psionic training of all of Zhdeqr's citizens. This reform is popular on Zhdeqr but not across the region -- and certainly not with the Zhodani Consulate leadership.
- 674: Death of Chyia Nedlkel. The new leadership venerates the popular leader by supporting the effort to rename Zhdeqr in his honour. However, they also take steps to limit the economic and societal disruptions arising from the psionic training of the majority of the population.
- Circa 700: Although still named Chyia Nedlkel, the world in question has by now abandoned his reforms and returned to the norms of Zhodani society.
- 710: The Tellerian Cluster is settled as an Imperial counterweight to the Colonnade.
- mid 750s: Antideluvia Subsector breaks away from the Colonnade Administrative District, disturbed by its ever-increasing cohesion and assimilation to Consulate norms. Small groups of worlds begin banding together for trade and mutual defense.
- 753: Kalel Escott Salinaikin brings the disparate worlds of Antideluvia Subsector together and forms the Salinaikin Concordance.
- 979-986: The Third Frontier War.
- 879: Chyia Nedlkel remains the capital after the Driantia Steblenzhtia merges with the Colonnade Administrative District to become the Zhodani Consulate Colonnade Province.
- 941: The Allarton Corporation is formed at Capital to settle and develop the Trelyn Domain.
- 966: The Colonnade capital is moved to Nielkladlief (the Consulate leadership still not fully trusting Chyia Nedlkel).
- 980: The Trelyn Domain becomes an Imperial client state under Grand Duke Ardesh Varen.
- 995 to 1065: The Imperial Second Survey.
- 1065: The Second Survey is published. Information about the region becomes widely available.
- 1089: The Council of Worlds establishes limits to the conflict in the Tellerian Cluster.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- Classic Traveller Alien Module 4: Zhodani
- GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 1
- Paranoia Press Vanguard Reaches
- Paranoia Press Vanguard Reaches 1991 online updates by Chuck Kallenbach
- Peter Gray - Gray Matter
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science