Vanguard Reaches

Note: This article is about the Vanguard Reaches publication by Paranoia Press. For the sector of the same name, see Vanguard Reaches Sector.

Vanguard Reaches
Vanguard Reaches
Author		Chuck Kallenbach
Publisher		Paranoia Press
Version		Classic Traveller
Edition		1st
Format		Book (Digest)
Language		English
Pages		28
Year Published		1981
Canonical		Yes
Available from		DriveThru RPG

Vanguard Reaches is an early Classic Traveller background book.

• The sector of the Vanguard Reaches is apart from the Imperium, and relatively far from the Aslan and Zhodani zones of influence. It is thus a whole area of isolated planets and various small interstellar governments, often clients of the great remote empires.

Description (Specifications)

After the table of contents and the credits, an introduction briefly presents the context. One also finds there explanations of the vocabulary, signs, and abbreviations employed in the following pages.

The sixteen pages which follow each describe a subsector of the Vanguard Reaches Sector: Issoudun, Andwella, Coos, Trelyn, Chapra, Haldensleben, Pandemonium, Eslyat, Eckmann Schrift, Four Corners, Diadem, Kajaani, Helix, Hyperion, Old Colonies and Jarnac. Each subsector is described by the standard table including a line by world giving its name, its political alignment, its location, its Universal World Profile, various notes (bases, gas giants, etc), and trade classifications. Certain subsectors profit from an explanatory paragraph summarizing the local context, in particular from a political point of view. The page dedicated to the subsector of Helix contains the description of an extremely dangerous space zone, a nebula, and rules for running travel into this ionized hydrogen cloud.

The chapter "Vanguard Reaches Library Data" is a succession of thorough articles describing certain elements of the sector, like the various political entities and several political and governmental organizations. Two new local minor races are also presented: the watery Eslyat and the Murian.

The booklet is concluded by a very detailed index. The chart included presents a general plan of the sector. The position of the worlds is presented, as well as the trade routes. The symbols used to represent the various worlds are appreciably different from that used by GDW: for instance, circles represent the ordinary worlds and stars represent the capitals. The color of each sign indicates the presence (black) or the absence (white) of gas giants. The capitals of the interstellar governments are sometimes surrounded by a blazon. The chart does not give the names of the worlds; these are in the text of the booklet.

Table of Contents

Vanguard Reaches
Section	Page/s
Introduction	1
Tables	2
Issoudun Subsector	3
Andwella Subsector	4
Coos Subsector	5
Trelyn Subsector	6
Chapra Subsector	7
Haldensleben Subsector	8
Pandemonium Subsector	9
Eslyat Subsector	10
Eckmann Schrift Subsector	11
Four Corners Subsector	12
Sector Map	Looseleaf
Diadem Subsector	13
Kajaani Subsector	14
Helix Subsector	15
Hyperion Subsector	16
Old Colonies Subsector	17
Jarnac Subsector	18
Library Data	19
Alphabetical Index	23

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

The Paranoia Press editor developed two sectors for Traveller: Beyond (The Beyond) and the Vanguard Reaches (Vanguard Reaches). Later on, these developments were considered non-canonical by Game Designers' Workshop, official descriptions of these zones being entrusted to the editor of Digest Group Publications.

• As opposed to what happened with the four sectors from Judges Guild, the canonical and non-canonical versions of The Beyond and the Vanguard Reaches differ only superficially.
• In 1997, Chuck Kallenbach published the text of this book, along with some updates, on the Paranoia Press web site (no longer available). He also allowed the information to be copied into the Galactic distribution.
• The original description is available in French.

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit	Authors & Contributors
Design	Chuck Kallenbach
Advisors	Donald P. Rapp and Marc W. Miller

References & Contributions (Sources)

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• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science