Freeman Seven

The Freeman Seven is a small cluster located in Aldebaran Sector.

• It is an astrographic feature and a minor trade route.
• It lies within the Winston Democracy.
• It is also known as the Cathedral Cluster. It is commonly referred to as The Seven.

Description (Specifications)

(Charts sourced from Traveller Map)

The Freeman Seven is a small cluster lying across the far rimward border between Aldebaran Sector and Neworld Sector.

• It has seven member systems.
• It is named for Freeman, an agricultural world and major military base that serves as the unofficial capital of the Winston Democracy.

A basic overview of the Seven, right:

• Member worlds are highlighted in brown.
• The Freeman Five worlds are marked by a border.

Freeman Five

The Freeman Five is a voting bloc whose primary purpose is to provide a voice for the lower population worlds of the Freeman Seven, a cluster that forms the heartland of the Winston Democracy. Member worlds of the cluster vote on local matters, but the massive population of Cathedral, a high population industrial world, overwhelmingly carries the vote in favor of their own world's interests. The Freeman Five exists as a means for these lower population worlds to make independent decisions.

• Cordial relations are maintained with Cathedral and the other worlds of the Democracy.

With the admission of the Martinique Cluster into the Democracy, voting blocs have changed and the balance of power has shifted. Issues affecting an entire cluster rather than a region within a single cluster have become prominent, and as a result the Freeman Five is rapidly losing its relevance.

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Commercial Data

The following commercial and economic data is available:

Corporations

Corporations and organizations active within the Freeman Seven include:

• Confederation Heavy Industries (CHI) LLC, a corporation with interests in heavy engineering and starship manufacture active throughout the trailing half of the Confederation.
• ConTech, a corporation specializing in life sciences, particularly large-scale bio-terraforming projects, medicine, and cloning.
• Defensus, a corporation involved in defense and armaments manufacture.
• Guardian Military Systems, a large corporation involved in defense and armaments manufacture, with its core area of operations within the 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 active 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

Notable local commodities include:

• (none currently listed)

Security & Defense

The worlds of the Seven are patrolled by the Democracy Navy. It defends Winston Democracy territory and the State's interests, suppresses piracy, and ensures interstellar trade and commerce.

• Democracy Navy vessels may demand customs inspections.
• Some systems are defended by local naval forces.

History & Background (Dossier)

High cargo capacity, low jump rating vessels move along the worlds of the Cluster carrying huge amounts of goods and commodities to its varied markets. Jump-2 and Jump-3 feeder routes work their ways around the rifts and voids that dot the region, linking the Cluster to outlying worlds.

The Freeman Seven is particularly known for its tribal settlements, including ethnic groups from the American, African, and Middle Eastern regions of Terra. It includes a substantial community of Dolphins, who have a similar "tribal" status to other groups.

Solomani Security keeps a close eye on activities and events within the Cluster to ensure the security of the Confederation 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 many see it as an act of duty to help protect the Solomani state and its interests.

• Democracy agents closely monitor SolSec activity and even act to counter its moves, if necessary.

Demographics

Significant populations of the following races (sophont species) reside within this area:

Humaniti (Human races)

• Mixed or other heritage: Occasionally encountered across the region.
• Solomani (Major Race): Widely spread across the region.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Rim Anglic, a dialect of Anglic and the principal language of the Solomani Confederation.

Timeline

Aldebaran Sector Clusters

Major events that have affected this cluster 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. The young Terran Confederation battles against the ancient Vilani Ziru Sirka.
• -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: The 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 Cluster.
• 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 Cluster.
• 1065: The Second Survey is published. Information about the Cluster becomes widely available.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This astrographic feature is primarily found in the following areas:
Charted Space – Balkanized Space:

• Aldebaran Sector
  • Hesperia Subsector

• Neworld Sector
  • Quatuor Subsector

World Listing

Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that are associated with the Freeman Seven 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:

7 of 7 World articles in Freeman Seven

Cathedral  •  Dorit  •  Freeman  •  Gloaming  •  Lyndon  •  Tyson  •  Valentine  •  

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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)

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M), (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), various pages. (Library data entries)
• John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 11 Library Data (N-Z), (Game Designers Workshop, 1982), various pages. (Library data entries)
• Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), pages 8-11, various others. (dot map locating the worlds of the Seven)
• Michael Taylor. Fighting Ships of the Solomani (QuikLink Interactive, 2009), page 5. (background for the region)
• Author & Contributor: IISS Junior Administrator and Master Astrographer Ensign Phillips
• Author & Contributor: MIMIC - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication
• Author & Contributor: Dochsavage
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science