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Milieu 1116 Milieu 1130 

Vanguard Reaches (Paranoia Press 1991) Sector
Fulani Far Frontiers Beyond(PP)
Beyond(JZ)
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Iphigenaia
Subsectors
Sector Data
No. of Worlds 617
Population 325,677 million
Majority Control Zhodani Consulate - %
Secondary Control Trelyn Domain - %
Tertiary Control Other - %
Domain Various
Capital Various
Gross Sector Product BCr2,167,513
Trade Volume BCr26,508
Imperial Coordinate 152 / 0
This sector has sector data

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Vanguard Reaches Sector inis possibly the only remaining sector in the entirety of Charted Space where minor mercenaries and soldier-adventurers still have the means and the opportunities to carve out their own personal empires, without the possibilities of major opposition or interference by outside powers.

  • Piracy is still endemic to many regions, many of them privateers in the secret employ of various states, and petty territorial wars rage on some of the more remote worlds.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

Vanguard Reaches Sector is a dynamic frontier region where multiple races, cultures, and societies mix and blend. Many Zhodani claim it as their frontier. Many Vargr assert that it is a spinward extension of the Vargr Extents, a sort of "Spinward Extents", while the native, aboriginal indigenes feel a little differently...

Toponyms: 1105[edit]

This sector has been known by different names to different groups over its existence including the following:

Vanguard Reaches Sector/Paranoia Press Names
Culture Toponym Polity
Third Imperium Vanguard Reaches Third Imperium
Aslan Telehfaeikh Aslan Hierate
Droyne Unknown Droyne Oytrip Yatroy
Hiver Unknown Hive Federation
K'kree Unknown Two Thousand Worlds
Solomani Vanguard Reaches Solomani Confederation
Vargr Unknown Vargr Extents
Vilani Unknown Third Imperium
Zhodani Steblenzh Zhodani Consulate

Linguistic Topography: 1105[edit]

The following languages are among the most commonly encountered within this sector:

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

Very little is conclusively known about the history and background of the region although it certainly has a very long history with technological civilizations. Ruins believed to be of both Ancients and Kursae origins are still being explored in the area.

Currently, the Vanguard Reaches contains 301 planetary systems with a total population of over 271 billion sentients. The sector is noteworthy for two of its exotic indigenous minor races, the Eslyat and the Murians, but the total number of races represented include 46.4 billion Imperial (mixed Solomani and Vilani), 36.8 billion Aslan, 32.9 billion Zhodani, 19.1 billion Eslyat, 17.4 billion Murian, several billion Droyne and others. The sector includes a racial variety matched by few others on the spinward frontier.

Native Sophonts: 1105[edit]

The following races (sophont species) are believed to have originated within this area:

Demographics: 1105[edit]

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

Historical Eras[edit]

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 at that time.

History-General Overview: No information yet available.

History-Era: Milieu 1100[edit]

The Vanguard Reaches is a remote nowhere. In the antebellum period it was too far from any of the major powers. It was peripheral even to the Frontier Wars: Zhodani and Imperial military planners steadfastly refused to waste ships and resources in trying to influence the sector. Much of this disinterest was due to the sector's unusually low stellar density. Most of the sector's worlds and civilizations are in the four coreward most subsectors, or along the Beyond Sector interface. The further one goes away from those regions, the fewer and farther between habitable worlds become, until one reaches the Helix Rift in the lower spinward-rimward quarter.

Needless to say, this scattering discouraged much development or political organization within the heart of the subsector. The remoteness of many worlds attracted many fringe religions and cults as well as political refugees to settle here, none of whom had anything in common with each other except a shared desire to be left alone. Aside from the Colonnade Administrative District (CAD) and the Corellans at the flanks, the sector was an impoverished frontier of no consequence, with no prospects and no value.

History-Era: Milieu 1130[edit]

All of this changed with the Collapse. The new Regency needed to foster trade and development to maintain the Quarantine, and foster civilization against future regression. The development of the jump-2 route known variously as the Gold Road or the Mortal Coil soon brought Regency and Corellan traders. The Aslan, already having a tenuous foothold in the rim interface, intensified trade with the Altarean Confederation (later Arcturan Commonwealth) and the CAD. The sector's resources, once too far away to be of value, were priceless. Planets that the inhabitants wouldn't waste their time to fight over became the bloody battlegrounds of rival powers and their advanced military forces. The local rednecks suddenly found themselves popular, newly rich and coveted by previously disinterested outsiders.

Major Historical Events Timeline: 1116[edit]

These are some of the more important historical events that have affected this sector:

Politics & Diplomacy (Interstellar Relations)[edit]

The area is a cornucopia of pocket empires and complex interstellar relations.

Polity Listing: 1105[edit]

The following polities can be found within this sector:

  • Other Powers
Duchy of Trelyn
Kajaani Triumvirate: County of Trelyn Domain (Subsector O /Far Frontiers Sector)
  • Various members worlds and systems
  • Other Powers (Defunct)

Polity Descriptions: 1105[edit]

Here are several synopses of the polities found in this sector:

  1. Alleg: AlCo: "Altarean Confederation" (Subsector N)
  2. Alleg: CoLg: "Corellan League" (Subsector H/L)
  3. Alleg: CsIm: "Client state, Third Imperium"
  4. Alleg: CsZh: "Client state, Zhodani Consulate"
  5. Alleg: FCSA: "Four Corners Sovereign Array"
  6. Alleg: HeCo: "Hefrin Colonies" (Subsector P)
  7. Alleg: HyLe: "Hyperion League" (Subsector K)
  8. Alleg: JaPa: "Jarnac Pashalic" (Subsector O)
  9. Alleg: EsMa: "Eslyat Magistracy" (Subsector B)
  10. Alleg: KaTr: "Kajaani Triumvirate" {Subsector O /Far Frontiers Sector}
  11. Alleg: NaHu: "Non-Aligned, Human-dominated"
  12. Alleg: NaXX: "Non-Aligned, unclaimed"
  13. Alleg: TeCl: "Tellerian Cluster" (Subsector J)
  14. Alleg: TrDo: "Trelyn Domain" {(Subsector C/D (Vanguard Reaches) & Subsector O/P (Far Frontiers Sector)}
  15. Alleg: ZhCa: "Zhodani Consulate, Colonnade Province"

Imperial Territory: 1105[edit]

This sector is not an Imperial possession.

  • 0.00% is controlled by the Third Imperium.
  • 100.00% is controlled by non-Imperial powers.

Polity Notes[edit]

The main powers contending for the sector are:

Milieu: post-1130[edit]

Here are more details about these polities:

  • The Aslan came to led by the Aokhalte, who post-Collapse made the region their main power center. Their advances have been slowed considerably by their wars in neighboring sectors, and by the aggressiveness of the Seieakh bloc.
  • The Beggars' Crusade is a bizarre and secretive pseudo-religious order found on many of the Reaches' non-aligned worlds, where their members pursue arcane agendas known only to the Crusade's inner sanctum.
  • The Corellans are mostly interested in reaping the rich trade that wends its way through the sector en route to either The Beyond and the Regency, the CAD or the Aslan.
  • The Murians are just plain furious with the presence of the Aslan, and have been building up their military for a possible confrontation over their mutual borders.

Trade Routes (Economic Astrography)[edit]

Independent Corporations[edit]

Logo Allarton Corporation 2.png Pan-Melesien.jpg Portmanteau Shipping Services.jpg

A number of independent corporations operate within the sector, including:

  • Hyperion Lines: A holding company that has become a de facto government, controlling the Hyperion League. It is administered by the Lupeski family.
  • Portmanteau Shipping Services: Best known as a shipping line, it also owns shipyards at Baixing and Haapamaki, producing both civilian and military starship models. The company was founded as Port Shipping Services in 1049; it grew through many mergers and acquisitions, changing to Portmanteau Shipping Services (PSS) in 1077.

Shipbuilding Concerns[edit]

A number of starship builders produce an annual amount of tonnage of vessels in the Vanguard Reaches and Surrounds. Major starship builders in the area, their location, an estimation of production quality, technological levels and capacities are listed below.

Trade[edit]

Merchant Shipping Lines[edit]

The following is a listing of major merchant lines in the Vanguard Reaches, including size, home port, and territory.

  • Osto Industries Transport. Home Port: Trelyn Vrra, Vanguard Reaches 2504. | Sector-wide [1] Territory: Cabala, Kajaani, & Mnemosyne Subsectors in the Far Frontiers, and Coos & Trelyn Subsectors in the Vanguard Reaches.
  • Shasumir Gilu. Home Port: Varen's Planet, Vanguard Reaches 2503. | Subsector-wide. Territory: Parts of Trelyn & Coos Subsectors.
  • Weslaco Transporters. Home Port: Weslaco, Vanguard Reaches 2103. | Fledgling. Territory: Coos Subsector.
  • Dysitin Shipping. Home Port: Varen's Planet, Vanguard Reaches 2503. | Fledgling. Territory: Trelyn Subsector.
  • Coreward Carriers. Home Port: Yuen, Far Frontiers 2234. | Fledgling. Territory: Kajaani Subsector.
  • Igarruku Transfer Corporation. Home Port: Ynchest, Vanguard Reaches 1706. | Interface. Territory: Imperial-Eslyat, Coos Subsector.
  • Shurerzi Lines. Home Port: Coos, Vanguard Reaches 2106. | Interface. Territory: Imperial-Eslyat, Coos Subsector.
  • Osolean Trading (Eslyat). Home Port: Stayn Fokaf, Vanguard Reaches 1308. | Subsector-wide. Territory: Eslyat Subsector.
  • Hyperion Lines. Home Port: Hyperion, Vanguard Reaches 1926. | Subsector-wide. Territory: Hyperion Subsector.
  • Gaamrag & Duushu, Ltd. Home Port: Whitestar, Vanguard Reaches 1721. | Subsector-wide. Territory: Serpent Trace area, parts of Haldensleben & Hyperion Subsectors.
  • Harmony Handlers, Ltd. Home Port: Harmony, Vanguard Reaches 2015. | Fledgling. Territory: Harmony Subsector.
  • Haldensleben Transport. Home Port: Traxler, Vanguard Reaches 1114. | Interface. Territory: Zhodani-Serpent Trace, Haldensleben Subsector.
  • Alstan Trading. Home Port: Divrigi, Vanguard Reaches 1227. | Interface. Territory: Tellerian Cluster-Altarean Confederation, Andwella Subsector.
  • Kalasuuna Shipping. Home Port: Tellan, Vanguard Reaches 1932. | Interface. Territory: Altarean Confederation-Aslan, Jarnac Subsector.
  • Khyarakh Carriers (Aslan). Home Port: Ihahteawiwo, Vanguard Reaches 2238. | Subsector-wide. Territory: Jarnac Subsector.
  • Efrstadr Transport (Zhodani). Home Port: Chyia Nedlkel, Vanguard Reaches 0406. | Subsector-wide. Territory: Issoudun Subsector.
  • Alstie Transport (Zhodani). Home Port: Miajlabl, Far Frontiers 0433. | Subsector-wide. Territory: Wulfeck Subsector.

The following astrographic features and trade routes can be found within this area:

Mains, Branches & Arms[edit]

Clusters & Traces[edit]

Rifts, Voids & Jump Bridges[edit]

A simple map showing rift regions within Vanguard Reaches Sector.

Chart Vanguard Reaches Sector Rift Regions Basic.png
(Chart sourced from Traveller Map)

Other Astrographic Features[edit]

Stellar Distribution[edit]

A basic map showing the distribution and size of stars within Vanguard Reaches Sector.

  • 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.

Chart Vanguard Reaches Sector Stellar Distribution Basic.png
(Chart sourced from Traveller Map).

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.

Worlds, Systems & Sectors (Political Astrography)[edit]

SectorVanguard.jpg

This is an astrographic region of high to very high stellar density. The Helix Nebula is the most prominent astrographic feature in the Vanguard Reaches.

Subsector Summary: 1105[edit]

Vanguard Reaches Sector/Paranoia Press/summary

Capital/s: 1105[edit]

==> (On some charts known as "Yuen")

Subsector Listing: 1105[edit]

The following subsectors can be found within this sector [2]:

  1. Subsector A: Issoudun
  2. Subsector B: Eslyat
  3. Subsector C: Coos *
  4. Subsector D: Trelyn
  5. Subsector E: Chapra
  6. Subsector F: Haldensleben
  7. Subsector G: Harmony ==> (formerly "Pandemonium Subsector")
  8. Subsector H:
  9. Subsector I: Eckmann Schrift
  10. Subsector J: Andwella ==> (formerly "Four Corners Subsector" / includes World: "Andwella" and "Tellerian Cluster")
  11. Subsector K: Hyperion ==> (formerly "Diadem Subsector" / includes World: "Hyperion")
  12. Subsector L:
  13. Subsector M: Helix
  14. Subsector N: Altarean
  15. Subsector O: Jarnac
  16. Subsector P: Old Colonies
* - Note that "Kajaani Subsector" is the local name in the Trelyn Domain for the subsector immediately coreward of Coos Subsector, which other astrographic maps refer to as "Jungleblut Subsector" .

Territorial Overview: 1105[edit]

The following table details the subsectors within this area:

  • No information yet available.

Territorial Chart Key[edit]

No information yet available.

World Listing: 1105[edit]

The following systems and worlds can be found within this sector:

No world articles for this Vanguard Reaches/Paranoia Press Sector

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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  1. ↑ While not truly a sector- wide merchant line, Osto is considered as such because it serves a five-subsector area, larger than any other line in the Reaches.
  2. ↑ Chuck Kallenbach. Vanguard Reaches (Paranoia Press, 1981), 1991 Online Updates.
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