Imperial Fringe
Imperial Fringe is an area where the Third Imperium holds influence through client states or influential trade, but not formal possession or military control of astrographic territory.
- Where Imperial Fringe exists, Imperial Districts follow.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
This is a generalized astrographic term for Imperial border or frontier subsectors and sectors.
As frontier areas, these often lack regular passenger liner service, established trade routes, postal unions, jump bridges, communications routes (X-Boat routes), X-mail access, large freighter activity, well established economic markets, and the other trappings of significant interstellar development.
Instead, they are served by feeder lines, tramp freighters, packet boats, and free traders.
Many of the mainworlds in such zones are underdeveloped and possess low World Trade Numbers or other markers of economic development past the World-State stage. They are ripe for exploration, trade, xenoarchaeology, intercultural exchange, and... adventure.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Imperial astrographic zones have a complicated sequence by which subsectors move from non-aligned to client state to frontier district to conventional Imperial Subsector. It is an established Imperial convention to assign numbers to districts (for example, District 268) which are under Imperial protection pending integration into the Imperium.
Noted Fringe Sectors[edit]
Some of the best known Imperial Fringe sectors include:
- Antares Sector
- Empty Quarter Sector
- Gateway Sector
- Ley Sector
- Reaver's Deep Sector
- Solomani Rim Sector
- Spinward Marches Sector
- Trojan Reach Sector
- Verge Sector
NOTE: Other sectors can be considered fringe than those which are noted here.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- The Imperial Fringe
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science