Talk:Haldensleben Subsector/Paranoia Press

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The primary version of The Vanguard Reaches detailed in the main wiki article is the version produced for Mongoose Traveller, 2nd Edition by Geir Lanesskog.

Meta-History & Background[edit]

The Classic Traveller Paranoia Press Vanguard Reaches book has been declared non-canon (but keep reading).

(Note that the T5SS-Atlas pages also include information from the original 1981 publication as rumors and misinformation detailed on linked subpages labelled "RSDT-Allarton Survey Data").

Background:

  1. In 1980/1981, the original Classic Traveller version of the Vanguard Reaches Sector was published by Paranoia Press (authored by Chuck Kallenbach II).
  2. In 1997, the Classic Traveller Paranoia Press "Vanguard Reaches" underwent 1991 Online Updates by Chuck Kallenbach. It is largely reworked in order to conform to the later Sunbane astrographical dot-maps of the Vanguard Reaches Sector.
  3. In 2015, the Paranoia Press Vanguard Reaches material underwent T5 Second Survey review and updates by Don McKinney to bring it up to T5 standards. It largely utilized the original astrographical map of the Vanguard Reaches from the 1981 Paranoia Press publication as its basis, with a few introduced additions from the 1991 updates added where necessary for consistency with other publications.

Current Publications:


SUSBSECTOR NAMES[edit]

A careful analysis of the 1991 Updates of Chuck Kallenbach's Vanguard Reaches Library Data and the Subsector Merchant Lines and their home ports and service areas as explicitly detailed in their descriptions does give us a canonical layout (for the 1991 updates) of most of the subsector name rearrangements/changes from the original 1980/1981 publication.

It would appear that the intent was as follows:

VANGUARD REACHES (PP 1991):

Vanguard Reaches (Subsectors)
Issoudun (A) Eslyat (B) Coos (C) Trelyn (D)
Chapra (E) Haldensleben (F) Harmony (G) (?) (H)
Eckmann Schrift (I) Andwella (J) Hyperion (K) (?) (L)
Helix (M) Altarean (N) Jarnac (O) Old Colonies (P)


  • Subsector A: Issoudun
  • Subsector B: Eslyat (moved from Subsector H) - The Eslyat Magistracy is re-located here
  • Subsector C: Coos
  • Subsector D: Trelyn


  • Subsector E: Chapra
  • Subsector F: Haldensleben
  • Subsector G: Harmony (name changed from "Pandemonium") - The worlds "Harmony" & "New Harmony" are located here
  • Subsector H: { ?? }


  • Subsector I: Eckmann Schrift
  • Subsector J: Andwella (moved from Subsector B) - The world Andwella, the Tellerian Cluster, and part of the Altarean Confederation are re-located here
  • Subsector K: Hyperion (moved from Subsector N) - The world Hyperion is re-located here
  • Subsector L: { ?? } *


  • Subsector M: Helix
  • Subsector N: { ?? } - The Murians / Altarean Confederation are re-located here
  • Subsector O: Jarnac (moved from Subsector P) - The Aslan "Jarnac" polity is re-located here as an Aslan Colony, * but no longer explicitly called "the Pashalic"
  • Subsector P: { ?? } - The Hefrin Colonies (Spinward-portion) are located here


. * Kajaani Subsector was explicitly moved from {Subsector L /Vanguard Reaches} to {Subsector O /Far Frontiers}


Also, what used to be the Aslan Polity known as the "Jarnac Pashalic" straddling the Vanguard Reaches & Beyond in the Rimward Subsectors is now explicitly referred to as the "Hefrin Colonies" in line with other Sunbane material that Jeff Zeitlin compiled. The identification of the worlds and merchant lines in Subsector O as being in Jarnac Subsector (instead of Old Colonies - Jarnac had been Subsector P) would imply that the concept of the Aslan Polity was applied to the "Aslan Colony" showing in Subsector O without explicitly bringing along the polity-name, and the subsector name "Jarnac" was transferred from Subsector P to Subsector O to generate the idea of the "Jarnac Aslan Colony" (in 1991+ there was much better documentation about Aslan culture and language than there had been in 1980/81, so you get the Aslan without the awkwardness of the names associated with the former material).

The "Four Corners Sovereign Array" (FCSA) appears to be AWOL, and its capital-world "Hoganas" no longer exists in this iteration of the Vanguard Reaches.

That leaves us with four subsectors with unspecified names above, and the following Subsector names unused/unaccounted for from the former 1981 material:

For the Vanguard Reaches PP-1991, I have made the following identifications beyond the canonical ones already noted above:

  • "Old Colonies" seems to be a natural "swap" with "Jarnac" for Subsector P. REASON: If Jarnac is Subsector O (where the Aslan are), then that leaves the old Corellan Colonies (later renamed Hefrin Colonies) in Subsector P - a set of "old colonies" from the coreward Corellan League.
  • Subsector N was noted as the location of the "Murians" for a long time on Sunbane maps, so either "Murian Subsector" or "Altarean Subsector" would work. Since Geir Lanesskog has already chosen Altarean Subsector for the Mongoose version, I have gone with that for the sake of consistency between versions.

REMAINING ISSUES:

That leaves us the problem of Subsectors H & L, which I am not quite sure what to do with, as there is nothing explicit to go on. Both of their former names have definitively been moved, but nothing has definitively been moved to those locations in their place. On the other hand, we have three remaining unused former Vanguard Reaches Subsector names: Pandemonium, Diadem, and Four Corners. All three of these subsector names had been identified with regions free of major polities, whereas the two unnamed subsectors both comprise the spinward border of the Corellan League (the major polity of the two-Sector region).

  • There is a local subsector Diadem Trade League in some versions (not mentioned in Chuck's material), and Diadem Subsector was negatively associated with the Hyperion League as a rival merchant competitor.
  • Four Corners should be somehow associated with Four Corners of something (and possibly the site of a fledgling or unrecognized polity or alliance) if it is used.
  • Pandemonium, is the renamed Harmony, so that would perhaps be an awkward fit without some backstory or local color.


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