Martinique Cluster

The Martinique Cluster is a small cluster located in Hadji Sector.

• It is an astrographic feature and a minor trade route.
• It lies within the Winston Democracy.

Description (Specifications)

(Charts sourced from Traveller Map)

The Martinique Cluster is a small cluster lying within the spinward-coreward quadrant of Hadji Sector.

• It has nine member systems.
• It is named for Martinique, a technologically backward high population desert world.

A basic overview of the Cluster, right:

• The worlds of the Cluster are highlighted in brown.

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Commercial Data

The following commercial and economic data is available:

Corporations

Corporations and organizations active within the Cluster include:

• ConTech, a corporation specializing in life sciences, particularly large-scale bio-terraforming projects, medicine, and cloning.
• 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.
• ZeeCorp, a corporation with interests in manufacturing active throughout the Solomani Confederation. It is a major producer of robots.

Goods

Notable local commodities include:

• (none currently listed)

Security & Defense

The worlds of the Seven are patrolled by the Democracy Navy. It defends Winston Democracy territory and the State's interests, suppresses piracy, and ensures interstellar trade and commerce.

• Democracy Navy vessels may demand customs inspections.
• Some systems are defended by local naval forces.

History & Background (Dossier)

A few high cargo capacity, low jump rating vessels move along the cluster, carrying goods and commodities between its 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.

Hadji Sector suffered widespread economic and financial collapse at the end of the 11th Century and the Martinique Cluster, already a backward area on the periphery of the region, was particularly hard hit. As the situation within the Cluster deteriorated the Winston Democracy stepped in, offering immediate but conditional material assistance to the area – the aid came at the requirement that those worlds receiving it become members of the Winston Democracy and accept Democracy authority. The Cluster's spinward worlds were the first to accede to these demands: the further trailing worlds saw the improvements on their interstellar neighbors and also chose to join.

Demographics

Significant populations of the following races (sophont species) reside within this area:

Humaniti (Human races)

• Mixed or other heritage: occasionally encountered across the region.
• Solomani (Major Race): widely spread across the region.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Rim Anglic, a dialect of Anglic and the principal language of the Confederation.

Timeline

The Winston Democracy, including the Martinique Cluster

Major events that have affected this cluster and the wider area 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.
• -4678: the Hivers discover jump drive technology.
• -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 Cluster.
• 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 Cluster.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the Cluster becomes widely available.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This astrographic feature is primarily found in the following areas:
Charted Space – Balkanized Space:

• Hadji Sector
  • Winston Subsector

World Listing

Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that are associated with the Martinique Cluster 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:

9 of 9 World articles in Martinique Cluster

Alton (Hj 0201)  •  Descartes  •  Eburhardt  •  Martinique (Hj 0702)  •  Metcalf  •  Noe  •  Seoul  •  Stormbringer  •  Twizzl'r  •  

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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.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), pages 8-11, various others. (dot map locating the worlds of the Seven)
• Author & Contributor: IISS Junior Administrator and Master Astrographer Ensign Phillips
• Author & Contributor: MIMIC - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication
• Author & Contributor: Dochsavage
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science