Shimmer Cluster
The Shimmer Cluster is a cluster lying across the border between Diaspora Sector and Massilia Sector.
- It is an astrographic feature and a trade route.
Description / Specifications[edit]
Astrography[edit]
A basic overview of the Shimmer Cluster:
- It is adjacent to (but separate from) the Shimmer Trace.
(Charts sourced from Traveller Map)
- Worlds within the Cluster are highlighted in tan.
Commercial Data[edit]
The following economic and commercial data has been determined regarding the Cluster:
Corporations[edit]
Corporations and organizations active within the Cluster include:
- 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 specializing in sensors, electronics, and robotics.
- Sharurshid, an Imperial megacorporation specializing in finance and commerce.
- Sternmetal Horizons, an Imperial megacorporation primarily engaged in mining operations and manufacturing.
- Tukera Lines, an Imperial megacorporation specializing in transport and logistics.
- Zirunkariish, a Vilani megacorporation specializing in investment, finance, and insurance.
Goods[edit]
Notable local commodities include:
- (none currently listed)
Security & Defense[edit]
The worlds of the region are patrolled by the Imperial Navy. It defends Imperial territory and interests, suppresses piracy, and ensures trade and commerce.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
High cargo capacity, low jump rating vessels move along the Cluster, carrying vast amounts of goods and commodities between its member worlds.
Demographics[edit]
Significant populations of the following races (sophont species) are found along this trade route:
- Humaniti (Human races)
- Mixed heritage (Major Race): Widely spread across the main.
- Solomani (Major Race): Many genetically distinct individuals and communities.
- Vilani (Major Race): Many genetically distinct individuals and communities.
Linguistic Topography[edit]
The most commonly heard languages are:
- Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
- Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
Timeline[edit]
Major events that have affected this trade route and the wider region that it lies within:
- circa -250,000: The Ancients are active within the sector.
- -9235: The Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
- circa -9,000: The Geonee encounter the Vilani.
- -5400 to -4015: The Vilani Consolidation Wars.
- -4045 to -2204: The Ziru Sirka claims and settles worlds across the region.
- -2404 to -2215: The Interstellar Wars.
- -2204 to -1776: The Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
- -1776 to 0: The Long Night.
- The Year 0: The Third Imperium is founded.
- 76 to 120: The Third Imperium wages the Pacification Campaigns to unify and assimilate the regions under its control.
- 300-420: The Imperial First Survey charts the region.
- 604-622: The Civil War.
- 624: The Express Boat Network is established.
- 800-820: The Psionics Suppressions.
- 995-1065: The Imperial Second Survey charts the region.
- 1065: The Second Survey is published. Information about the region becomes widely available.
Worlds & Sectors / Astrography[edit]
This astrographic feature is primarily found in the following areas:
World Listing: 1105[edit]
The following systems and worlds are associated with this astrographic feature:
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References & Contributors / Sources[edit]
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- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), pages 22, 29. (charts showing the worlds of the Cluster)
- James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), pages 11, 48, 49. (dot maps locating the worlds of the Cluster)
- Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), pages 4, 38-41, 102-109. (sector data including the Cluster circa The Year 0)
- Author & Contributor: MIMIC - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science