Xianjin-Brimate Cluster
The Xianjin-Brimate Cluster is a cluster located within parts of Canopus Sector, Dark Nebula Sector, and Magyar Sector.
- It is an astrographic feature and a trade route.
- It is also known as the Staai Main
- It lies across the border between the Aslan Hierate and the Solomani Confederation.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
The Xianjin-Brimate Cluster is a cluster lying within the coreward-trailing quadrant of Canopus Sector, the spinward-rimward quadrant of Magyar Sector, and the rimward-trailing quadrant of Dark Nebula Sector
- It has 29 member systems.
- It is named for Xianjin, a high technology agricultural world, and Brimate, a major military hub on the Confederation-Hierate border.
- The Cluster is known as the Staai Main within Dark Nebula Sector. The main argument in favor of the name is that the majority of its worlds lie within Staai Subsector.
A basic overview of the Cluster, right:
- The worlds of the Cluster are highlighted in tan.
Confederation-Hierate Border[edit]
The border between the Solomani Confederation and the Aslan Hierate divides the Cluster into distinctive spinward and trailing regions. Large numbers of Humans and Aslan, most typically merchants, traders, or casual visitors such as tourists, can be found on both sides of the border.
(Chart sourced from Traveller Map)
- The worlds of the Cluster are highlighted.
Hyades Cluster[edit]
The hundreds of stars and vast, faintly glowing gas clouds that make up the Hyades Cluster, lying at the trailing tip of the Xianjin-Brimate Cluster, are clearly visible to the naked eye from the surfaces of its member worlds.
- The tidal influence of the stars at the Cluster's core can be detected in the orbits of planets and moons in systems across the region.
- The Cluster's stars cause interference, strange tones and noises, and constant static on commo and sensors many parsecs from its core.
Commercial Data[edit]
The following commercial and economic data is available:
Corporations[edit]
Corporations and organizations active within the Cluster include:
- ConTech, a corporation specializing in life sciences, particularly large-scale bio-terraforming projects, medicine, and cloning.
- Guardian Military Systems, a large corporation involved in defense and armaments manufacture, with its core area of operations within Canopus Sector.
- Lamarck Minerals, a corporation with a relatively small core area of operations in the Solomani Rim, but with growing interests in resource extraction and processing throughout the Solomani Sphere.
- Orion Metallurgy Corporation (OMC), engaged in resource exploration, extraction, and processing throughout the Solomani Sphere.
- Panstellar, a major transport and logistics corporation.
- Probable Technologies, a scientific research organization involved with academia and heavy industry. It works extensively with the Confederation military.
- Rising Phoenix News Service (RPNS), the premier news and media organization within the Solomani Sphere. It has a strong pro-Confederation bias.
- Solomani Maschinenbau (SolMan) AG, a corporation with interests in heavy engineering and starship manufacture throughout the spinward half of the Confederation.
- Solomani Shipping, a major transport and logistics corporation.
- Transstar, a Solomani megacorporation specializing in transport and logistics. It operates across 13 sectors, represented by the 13 stars in its logo.
- ZeeCorp, a corporation with interests in manufacturing active throughout the Solomani Confederation. It is a major producer of robots.
Goods[edit]
Notable local commodities include:
- (none currently listed)
Security & Defense[edit]
The worlds of the Cluster are patrolled by the Solomani Navy and by naval vessels operating under Clan command. They defend Confederation and Hierate territory, protect Confederation and Hierate interests, suppress piracy, and ensure interstellar trade and commerce.
- Naval vessels may demand customs inspections.
- Some systems are defended by local naval forces.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
High cargo capacity, low jump rating vessels move along the Cluster, carrying large amounts of goods and commodities between its member worlds.
Solomani Security keeps a close eye on activities within the Cluster to ensure the security of the State and the well-being of its loyal citizens. Almost anyone could be a SolSec informant, passing on all sorts of useful information: some gain a reward or benefit for their actions, others are coerced, but most see it as an act of duty to help protect the Solomani state and its interests.
- Clan operatives in turn carefully monitor SolSec activity.
Demographics[edit]
Significant populations of the following races (sophont species) reside within this area:
- Humaniti (Human races)
- Solomani (Major Race): Widely spread across the region.
- Non-Human Races
- Aslan (Major Race): Widely encountered across the region.
Linguistic Topography[edit]
The most commonly heard languages are:
- Chinese, the collective name for a family of Terran languages that are widely spoken across the region.
- Rim Anglic, a dialect of Anglic and the principal language of the Confederation.
- Trokh, the principal language of the Aslan Hierate
- Minor Aslan Languages: note that some Aslan Clans retain obscure or archaic languages for personal use in addition to Trokh.
Timeline[edit]
Major events that have affected this region and the wider area that it lies within:
- -9235: Far to coreward, the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
- -4045 to -2204: The Ziru Sirka controls vast territories.
- -2431: Terrans discover jump drive technology.
- -2404 to -2215: The Interstellar Wars.
- -2204 to -1776: The Rule of Man administers the former Ziru Sirka.
- -1999: The Aslan gain jump drive technology.
- -1862 to -1110: The Terran Mercantile Community is active within the region.
- -1776 to 0: The Long Night.
- -1118 to 380: Aslan Border Wars
- -1110 to 588: The Terran Mercantile Community gradually becomes the Old Earth Union, shrinking to control the region around Terra.
- The Year 0: To coreward, the Third Imperium is founded.
- 300-420: The Imperial First Survey charts the system.
- 380: The Peace of Ftahalr ends the ongoing Aslan Border Wars and establishes understandings regarding human and Aslan influence.
- 588: The Old Earth Union and the former territories of the Terran Mercantile Community are annexed by the Imperium, moving its border adjacent to the Aslan Hierate.
- 604-622: The Imperial Civil War.
- 624: The Imperial Express Boat Network is established.
- 704: The Solomani Autonomous Region is formed.
- 800-820: The Psionics Suppressions.
- 871: The Solomani Confederation is founded.
- 940: The Solomani Autonomous Region is dissolved.
- 990-1002: The Solomani Rim War.
- 995-1065: The Imperial Second Survey includes data for the system.
- 1065: The Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)[edit]
This astrographic feature is found in the following areas:
Charted Space – Aslan Hierate – Solomani Confederation:
World Listing[edit]
Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that are members of the Xianjin-Brimate Cluster is available.
- The primary source material for all data is Traveller Map.
- Other sources may differ: some elements of the data may be contradictory or incorrect.
- Data is occasionally updated as new information becomes available.
AAB library archives contain expanded data about the following systems:
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Note that some Second Survey data, though only 40 years old, may already be out of date.
- Scouting missions gathering reliable, verified data can receive substantial payment.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), pages 8-11. (dot map locating the worlds of the Cluster)
- Author & Contributor: IISS Junior Administrator and Master Astrographer Ensign Phillips
- Author & Contributor: MIMIC - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication