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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).

Background:

  1. In 1980/1981, the original Classic Traveller Paranoia Press Vanguard Reaches was published.
  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 2016, the Paranoia Press Vanguard Reaches material underwent T5 Second Survey review and updates 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:


The "Official" Reason for Published Survey Discrepancies ("In-Universe")[edit]

The "official" reason for the discrepancy between the published Vanguard Reaches (1981) by Paranoia Press and the canonical version (1991) is given by Chuck Kallenbach as follows in his 1991 Online Update material:


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. This first survey was used as a basis for information gathering by the Allarton Corporation in the early 900's.
The Corporation's records continued to expand until, along with the Travellers' Aid Society, they were commissioned to do a full scale Class V survey of the entire sector by Grand Duke Ardesh Varen in the year 1046.
This major survey project was finally published in the year 1106 by the Travellers' Aid Society. The fledgling Royal Scouts of the Duchy of Trelyn were also enlisted to aid in this task, and between the Scouts, the TAS and the Allarton Corporation, the project fell apart.
The final survey, as published, was a cornucopia of hearsay, legends, rumors and fabrications. Wild tales of ringworlds, sphereworlds, rosettes and a few nonexistent companies were presented as authoritative data. The 1106 TAS Survey was such a compilation of misinformation that learned starfarers attempted to obtain the Allarton records of the early 900's, which were much more reliable.
Several years after the publication of the TAS survey, Grand Duchess Dyana commissioned a new survey by the Royal Scouts to include their own experience and new techniques from the IISS. Now, some twenty years in the making, this RSDT Survey of 1120 is available to interstellar travellers in the Reaches. It easily sets new benchmarks for surveys of the area, and these data are as complete as the most recent Imperial surveys. [1]


PROPOSED RENAMED SUBSECTOR LISTING:[edit]

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)

Alternates:

  • Pandemonium
  • Diadem
  • Four Corners


  1. ↑ Chuck Kallenbach. Vanguard Reaches (Paranoia Press, 1981), 1991 Online Updates by Chuck Kallenbach.
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