Old Expanses Sector
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| No. of Worlds | 426 | ||||||||||||||||
| Population | 1,501,818 million | ||||||||||||||||
| Majority Control | Third Imperium - 94% | ||||||||||||||||
| Secondary Control | Solomani Confederation - 3% | ||||||||||||||||
| Tertiary Control | Non-Aligned (Human-dominated) - 2% | ||||||||||||||||
| Quaternary Control | Third Imperium Client States - 1% | ||||||||||||||||
| Domain | Domain of Sol Solomani Sphere Balkanized Space | ||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Vaward | ||||||||||||||||
| Gross Sector Product | BCr13,699,950 | ||||||||||||||||
| Trade Volume | BCr341,697 | ||||||||||||||||
| Imperial Coordinate | +1 / -2 | ||||||||||||||||
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The Old Expanses Sector is an area of old settlement with a long history of both Vilani and Terran societies. Rich trade with the Hivers has put the area back on the map.
- In addition to the subsector fleets, the Old Expanses sector is protected by the 810th Fleet.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
Old Expanses Sector once existed at the edge of Ziru Sirka expansion before the Interstellar Wars redefined the local landscape. The two most obvious cultural influences came from the Terrans and the Vilani, but the Droyne very clearly have left their mark in the area as well. Oynprith slang words exist in both the local Anglic and Vilani dialects. Some cultural biologists also suspect a strong Hiver influence.
Physcial Astrography[edit]
The following astrographic data regarding the sector has been determined:
- It is an average density region.
- The sector has a number of rift density regions.
- The brightest star in the sector is the red bright giant primary of the Leblion system.
Stellar Distribution[edit]
A basic map showing the distribution and size of stars within the Old Expanses, 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.
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 sector and far beyond.
Rift Regions[edit]
Old Expanses Sector has four distinct rift regions and also contains a number of minor voids that are too small to qualify as a true rift. These various areas of lower stellar density serve to hamper travel and restrict commerce within its boundaries.
- Jump-2 and Jump-3 corridors of stars, the arteries of interstellar trade connecting the various clusters, snake between them.
Named rift regions include:
Nature of Rifts[edit]
Locally at least, a rift is an astrographic concept based purely on Jump Drive performance.
Rift regions generally relate to regular commercial traffic and the way it travels between destinations. Merchant vessels with jump-4 drives or better are fairly rare because of the higher costs involved in operating the vessel, the lower revenue generated by the reduced cargo space due to the need for large fuel tanks, and the relative paucity of technologically advanced maintenance facilities within the region. As a result, the vast majority of merchant vessels are capable of jump-3 or less.
- Large areas that cannot be crossed by Jump-3-capable vessels are denoted as rifts.
- The nature and borders of a rift may be determined by other criteria in different regions.
In order to qualify as a rift, the region must have ten or more contiguous hexes. Many areas have minor void regions that are too small to qualify as a true rift, but are still significant enough to seriously hamper and channel interstellar travel.
Military vessels and specialist ships such as couriers are often only marginally affected by the presence of smaller rifts. Larger rift regions have a greater significance, requiring lengthy detours or complex refueling operations or creating bottlenecks that even the longest range vessels are forced to travel through.
World Listing[edit]
Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds lying within the Old Expanses 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.
- Scouting missions gathering reliable, verified data can receive substantial payment.
AAB library archives contain expanded data about the following systems:
- Plus one non-canon world.
Note that some Second Survey data, though only 40 years old, may already be out of date.
- Verified updated data is constantly sought.
Economic Astrography[edit]
The following commercial and economic data regarding the sector is available:
Importance[edit]
A chart is provided showing importance as green circles centered on a world, with larger circles indicating greater importance and overlapping circles giving an overview of a region's economic significance. While importance is largely a measure of raw economic power, other influencing factors include starport quality, political significance, a high planetary habitability rating, or even the local culture.
Importance also gives a good indication of the sphere of influence that individual worlds exert.
Corporations[edit]
Corporations and organizations active within the sector include:
- General Products, an Imperial megacorporation involved in heavy industry and manufacturing.
- GSbAG, an Imperial megacorporation involved in ship construction.
- Hortalez et Cie, an Imperial megacorporation specializing in banking and finance.
- Ling Standard Products, an Imperial megacorporation engaged in widescale resource extraction and processing.
- Makhidkarun, an Imperial megacorporation specializing in communications and entertainment.
- Naasirka, an Imperial megacorporation with long historical ties to the region and specializing in electronics and robotics.
- Sharurshid, an Imperial megacorporation specializing in finance and commerce.
- Star Patterns Trading, a Hiver corporation involved in transport and logistics. It maintains good relations with both the Solomani Confederation and the Imperium.
- Starkwell Interstellar Enterprises, a sector-wide corporation with a wide variety of commercial interests.
- SuSAG, an Imperial megacorporation specializing in commercial chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and genetic engineering.
- Transstar, a Solomani megacorporation specializing in transport and logistics. It operates across 13 sectors, represented by the 13 stars in its logo.
- Tukera Lines, an Imperial megacorporation specializing in transport and logistics.
Trade Routes[edit]
High cargo capacity, low jump rating vessels move along the clusters and traces of the sector, 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.
Mains[edit]
Main is an astrographic term for groups of 50 or more systems that are accessible by jump-1-capable starships.
Mains are highlighted in green: three mains lie within the sector.
Clusters[edit]
Cluster is a broad astrographic term for groups of between 10 and 50 systems that are accessible by jump-1-capable starships.
Clusters are highlighted in tan: seven clusters lie wholly or partially within the sector. The Oreo Cluster, the Mikkim Cluster, and the Anise Cluster lie on its borders.
Traces[edit]
Trace is an astrographic term for groups of between 5 and 10 systems that are accessible by jump-1-capable starships.
Traces are highlighted in brown: eight trace-sized clusters of worlds lie wholly or partially within the sector.
- Gilway Trace
- Hindahl Trace
- Burlta Strand
- Xezor Cluster
- Haven Trace
- Goromas Trace
- Nicosia Cluster
- L'Steich Vee
Jump Bridges[edit]
Jump Bridges are locations within empty hexes that contain caches of fuel and supplies. They allow lower jump rating vessels to bridge gaps between distant worlds by providing a halfway point. The hexes they lie within are vast, and without exact coordinates to jump to within it a vessel could end up with empty tanks in empty wilderness, perhaps as much as a light-year away from any hope of rescue. Where they do exist, Jump Bridges are heavily guarded and access is not generally granted to those without the correct credentials.
- No commercial jump bridges are known to currently exist within the sector.
- It has long been rumored that the Imperium, Imperial megacorporations, or other interests may maintain covert jump bridge facilities at strategically important points, but no reliable proof of this has ever been provided.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Interstellar commerce is vital to the prosperity of the region and a number of Jump Bridge projects have been planned or already developed to bolster the sector economy. The area has several native sophont species and is known to take in refugees and settle them on less populous worlds. The megacorporations are increasingly investing in the area and financial trends predict massive growth.
Native Sophonts: 1105[edit]
The following races (sophont species) are believed to have originated within this area:
- Non-Human Races
- Gonzans
- Kolipians
- Schalli (once known as Kiiroka)
- Thorellians
Demographics: 1105[edit]
Significant populations of the following races (sophont species) reside within this sector:
- Humaniti (Human races)
- Solomani (Major Race)
- Vilani (Major Race)
- Anakundu (Note that this Human Minor Race always had a small population, and today is largely interbred with the Vilani)
Historical Eras[edit]
General Overview: No information yet available.
Toponyms: 1105[edit]
This sector has been known by different names to different groups over its existence including the following:
| Old Expanses Sector Names | ||
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| Culture | Toponym | Polity |
| Third Imperium | Old Expanses | Third Imperium |
| Aslan | Old Expanses | Aslan Hierate |
| Droyne | Unknown | Droyne Oytrip Yatroy |
| Hiver | Old Expanses | Hive Federation |
| K'kree | Unknown | Two Thousand Worlds |
| Solomani | Old Expanses | Solomani Confederation |
| Vargr | Old Expanses | Vargr Extents |
| Vilani | Mikadira | Third Imperium |
| Zhodani | Old Expanses | Zhodani Consulate |
- This sector was known as Mikadira Sector during the First Imperium.
Linguistic Topography: 1105[edit]
The following languages are among the most commonly used within this astrographic region:
- Languages of Humaniti:
- Rim Anglic: One of the principal dialects of one of the of the two official languages of the Third Imperium. The dialect is somewhat influenced by Core Anglic.
- Ral Rantan: The language of the fiercely independent Ral Ranta culture, the modern remnant of which lies just trailing, in Hinterworlds Sector.
- Vilani: One of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.
- Languages of Major & Pervasive non-Human Races:
- Gurvin: The common spoken language of the Hive Federation, whose trade expeditions are common in the Old Expanses.
- Oynprith: The ritualistic, ceremonial language of Droyne communities throughout Charted Space.
History-Era: Milieu 1100[edit]
No information yet available.
Major Historical Events Timeline[edit]
Major events that have affected this sector and the wider region that it lies within:
- circa -250,000: The Ancients are active within the region.
- -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.
- -1862 to -1110: the Terran Mercantile Community is active within the region.
- -1776 to 0: the Long Night. There is widespread regression and some worlds become barren.
- -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.
- (76 to 120): The Third Imperium's Pacification Campaigns are waged to unify nearby space under its rule.
- 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the sector.
- 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 charts the sector.
- 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the sector becomes widely available.
Politics & Diplomacy (Interstellar Relations)[edit]
The area is rich in interstellar relations with several of the major races maintaining trade and diplomatic embassies in the area:
Polity Listing: 1105[edit]
The following polities can be found within this sector:
- Independent Powers (Pocket Empires)
- None
- Non-Aligned Powers (World-States)
- Non-Aligned (Human-dominated)
- Other Powers
- Portine League
- Reformation Coalition (future)
- Solomani Confederation (Solomani powers)
- Various member systems and worlds.
- Third Imperium (Imperial powers)
- Dethenes Technical Alliance
- Third Imperium Client States
- Various member systems and worlds.
- Defunct Powers
Polity Descriptions: 1105[edit]
Here are several synopses of the polities found in this sector:
- Alleg: CsIm: "Client state, Third Imperium"
- Alleg: ImDs: "Third Imperium, Domain of Sol"
- Alleg: NaHu: "Non-Aligned, Human-dominated"
- Alleg: SoCf: "Solomani Confederation"
Imperial Territory: 1105[edit]
This is an Imperial core sector.
- The Imperial portion of this sector is administered from the Domain of Sol.
- 94.00% is controlled by the Third Imperium.
- 6.00% is controlled by non-Imperial powers.
Other Astrographic Features[edit]
Capital/s[edit]
The capital or capitals of this area is/are located at:
- Vaward (world)
- Sector Capital Vaward/Quinoid (Old Expanses 1106)
Sector Summary[edit]
The Old Expanses sector has 426 worlds with an estimated combined population of 1,501 billion, a per capita income of Cr9,376, and a total economy of BCr14,074,627. These worlds originate an interstellar trade of BCr316,857 through 392 starports (122 Class A, 136 Class B, 119 Class C, 15 Class D) employing 55,205,965 people. Driving this interstellar trade are 83 Agricultural (Ag) worlds, 69 Non-Agricultural (Na) worlds, 31 Pre-Agricultural (Pa) worlds, 67 Pre-Industrial (Pi) worlds, 43 Rich (Ri) worlds, and 42 Industrial (In) worlds. The governments in Old Expanses maintain 109 Scout bases, 71 Naval bases, ten Way stations, three Military bases, and one Naval depot. The average technology level is 10 (with most between 7 and 13). The highest technology level is 15 at Dethenes (Old Expanses 0403), Sidrat (Old Expanses 1004), Serpila (Old Expanses 1006), Vaward (Old Expanses 1106), Tricard (Old Expanses 1202), and Jone (Old Expanses 1205).
The Old Expanses sector contains 633 stars and 4,590 identified planets; 228 monostellar systems, 189 binary systems, nine trinary systems, and no systems with four or more stars. 356 of the 426 systems (83%) have native gas giants. There are 16 Asteroid (As) belts, 16 Desert (De) worlds, 28 Garden (Ga) worlds, 14 Ice-capped (Ic) worlds, 70 Poor (Po) worlds, 38 Vacuum (Va) worlds, and 38 Water (Wa) or Ocean (Oc) worlds.
Old Expanses has an estimated population of 1,501 billion distributed across 66 High population (Hi) worlds, 60 Moderate population (Ph) worlds, 168 Non-industrial (Ni) worlds, 48 Low population (Lo) worlds, and two Barren (Ba) worlds. The highest population worlds are Atil (Old Expanses 2315), Ropram (Old Expanses 1822), Vleeman (Old Expanses 2538), Phront (Old Expanses 2640), Mexit (Old Expanses 2125), and Syrim (Old Expanses 2835). The population consists primarily of 8 sophont groups including five native sophonts.
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Polities[edit]
Third Imperium, Domain of Sol[edit]
The Third Imperium, Domain of Sol has jurisdiction over 401 worlds in the sector with an estimated combined population of 1,292 billion, a per capita income of Cr9,563, and a total economy of BCr12,356,608. These worlds originate an interstellar trade of BCr313,543 through 372 starports (113 Class A, 131 Class B, 114 Class C, 14 Class D) employing 54,765,590 people. Driving this interstellar trade are 81 Agricultural (Ag) worlds, 67 Non-Agricultural (Na) worlds, 30 Pre-Agricultural (Pa) worlds, 64 Pre-Industrial (Pi) worlds, 43 Rich (Ri) worlds, and 39 Industrial (In) worlds. The governments in the Third Imperium, Domain of Sol maintain 108 Scout bases, 66 Naval bases, ten Way stations, and one Naval depot within the sector. The average technology level is 10 (with most between 7 and 13). The highest technology level is 15 at Dethenes (Old Expanses 0403), Sidrat (Old Expanses 1004), Serpila (Old Expanses 1006), Vaward (Old Expanses 1106), Tricard (Old Expanses 1202), and Jone (Old Expanses 1205).
The Third Imperium, Domain of Sol has an estimated population of 1,292 billion within the sector, distributed across 61 High population (Hi) worlds, 57 Moderate population (Ph) worlds, 156 Non-industrial (Ni) worlds, 45 Low population (Lo) worlds, and two Barren (Ba) worlds. The highest population worlds are Atil (Old Expanses 2315), Ropram (Old Expanses 1822), Vleeman (Old Expanses 2538), Mexit (Old Expanses 2125), Syrim (Old Expanses 2835), and Diacy (Old Expanses 0306). The population consists primarily of 8 sophont groups including five native sophonts.
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Solomani Confederation[edit]
The Solomani Confederation has jurisdiction over 11 worlds in the sector with an estimated combined population of 126 billion, a per capita income of Cr9,369, and a total economy of BCr1,180,599. These worlds originate an interstellar trade of BCr2,888 through 9 starports (4 Class A, 2 Class B, 3 Class C, 0 Class D) employing 384,935 people. Driving this interstellar trade are one Agricultural (Ag) world, one Non-Agricultural (Na) world, no Pre-Agricultural (Pa) worlds, two Pre-Industrial (Pi) worlds, no Rich (Ri) worlds, and two Industrial (In) worlds. The governments in the Solomani Confederation maintain three Naval bases and three Military bases within the sector. The average technology level is 9 (with most between 6 and 12). The highest technology level is 14 at Phront (Old Expanses 2640) and Stad (Old Expanses 3039).
The Solomani Confederation has an estimated population of 126 billion within the sector, distributed across three High population (Hi) worlds, two Moderate population (Ph) worlds, four Non-industrial (Ni) worlds, no Low population (Lo) worlds, and no Barren (Ba) worlds. The highest population worlds are Phront (Old Expanses 2640) and Stad (Old Expanses 3039). The population consists primarily of 1 sophont group.
Non-Aligned, Human-dominated[edit]
There are nine Non-Aligned Human-dominated worlds in Old Expanses with an estimated combined population of 82 billion.
Client state, Third Imperium[edit]
The Client states of the Third Imperium in Old Expanses encompass five worlds with an estimated combined population of 704 million.
Subsector Listing[edit]
The following subsectors can be found within this sector:
- No information yet available.
- Subsector A: Dethenes Subsector
- Subsector B: Quinoid Subsector
- Subsector C: Ahrhi Subsector
- Subsector D: Rusco Subsector
- Subsector E: Srys Subsector
- Subsector F: Jayna Subsector
- Subsector G: Twenty-One Worlds Subsector
- Subsector H: Ile Subsector
- Subsector I: Thoezennt Subsector
- Subsector J: Shenk Subsector
- Subsector K: Karse Subsector
- Subsector L: Vendtup Subsector
- Subsector M: Nicosia Subsector
- Subsector N: Sarid Subsector
- Subsector O: So Skire Subsector
- Subsector P: Bascoj Subsector
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- Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
- Classic Traveller Alien Module 7: Hiver (named but no further data)
- Periodical: Classic Traveller FASA High Passage Magazine
- MegaTraveller Alien - Solomani & Aslan (dot map provided)
- MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr (dot map provided)
- Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 12
- TNE Path of Tears
- Traveller: The New Era Main Rulebook
- The New Era Adventure Operation Dominoes 1: Moonshadow
- The New Era Adventure Operation Dominoes 2: Minds of Isdur
- The New Era Adventure Operation Dominoes 3: The Isdur Gambit
- The New Era Adventure Operation Dominoes 4: The Iskyar Metamorphosis