Hulda Subsector

Hulda Subsector
Iselle Hyades Nyssa Hulda style="width: 250px; height: 350px; border: solid 1px black;" map from Travellermap.com Aglaea
Sector	Canopus
Capital	Hipponax
Number of Systems	17
Majority Control	Solomani Confederation - 94%
2nd Control	Non-Aligned, Human-dominated - 06%

Hulda Subsector is Subsector E of Canopus Sector.

• It lies within the Solomani Confederation.

Description (Specifications)

(Chart sourced from Traveller Map)

(Chart sourced from Traveller Map)

The following astrographic and commercial data has been determined regarding Hulda Subsector:

Astrographic Features

The subsector is a generally unremarkable area lying within the Solomani Confederation.

• It is a relatively low stellar density region.
• The brightest star is the red giant primary of the Sahuarita system.

Astrographic Features & Trade Routes

The following astrographic features and trade routes can be found within this area:

Stellar Distribution

A basic map showing the distribution and size of stars within Hulda Subsector, right:

• The color corresponds to the visible color of the star, which links to its spectral classification.
• The size as shown indicates both the physical size of the object and its relative brightness.

Note that the stars as depicted are representative. Any star, no matter what its size, is a mere speck within the hex it occupies.

• Ordinary main sequence stars can barely be seen from even a hex away.
• Huge, intensely luminous giant stars can be seen from across the subsector and far beyond.

Rift Regions

The subsector contains two rift regions:

• The Hulda Waste
• The Nyssa Expanse

Locally at least, a rift is an astrographic and commercial concept based on Jump Drive performance.

• Most commercial vessels typically use Jump Drives capable of Jump-3 or less.
• Areas that cannot be crossed by Jump-3-capable vessels are denoted as rifts.
• Rifts represent a considerable obstacle to interstellar trade and commerce.

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Economic Astrography

The following commercial and economic data regarding the subsector is available:

Corporations

Corporations and organizations active within the sector 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 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.
• Layaefui, an Aslan corporation that specializes in exploration, scouting, and surveying.
• Orion Metallurgy Corporation (OMC), engaged in resource exploration, extraction, and processing throughout the spinward and rimward parts of the Confederation.
• 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

Notable local commodities include:

• (none currently listed)

Security & Defense

The worlds of the sector are patrolled by the Solomani Navy. It defends Confederation territory, protects Confederation interests, suppresses piracy, and ensures interstellar trade and commerce.

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

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Clusters & Traces

Canopus Sector Clusters

High cargo capacity, low jump rating vessels move along the clusters and traces within the subsector, carrying vast amounts of goods and commodities between their member worlds. Jump-2 and Jump-3 feeder routes work their ways around the rifts and voids that dot the region, linking the various clusters and traces.

Aachen Cluster

The Aachen Cluster has 11 member systems.

(Chart sourced from Traveller Map)

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World Listing

Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that lie within Hyades Subsector 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:

23 Worlds in the Hyades Subsector

Baccarin  •  Bathsheba  •  Bowin Prime  •  Bream  •  Brulanta  •  Coronis  •  Dezerta  •  Dione  •  Dresselhaus  •  Edifice  •  Eudroa  •  Fakhri  •  Gliklik  •  Harrow  •  Maro  •  Novosibirsk  •  Nunavut  •  Poire  •  Poltava  •  Senmovigita  •  Shun (Ca 0601)  •  Tundro  •  Xuan  •  

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.

History & Background (Dossier)

Solomani Security keeps a close eye on things 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.

Polity Listing

Major Powers

• Solomani Confederation (human powers):
  • The subsector lies entirely within the borders of the Solomani Confederation.

Non-Aligned Powers (World-States)

• Non-Aligned, Human-dominated.

One human-dominated non-aligned world lies within the subsector. It is not a member of the Solomani Confederation, choosing instead to remain as a technically neutral world as a result of complicated domestic politics, belief in self-reliance, and isolationist attitudes. Despite its neutral status, it relies on the Confederation for trade and defense and actively cooperates with Solomani interests.

Historical Powers

• Terran Mercantile Community (-1862 to -1110). Active across the subsector for almost seven centuries. While it was non-governmental in principle, it actively claimed and exploited vast regions of space, though most of the territory it controlled was barren wilderness.
• Third Imperium (588 to 871). The Imperium claimed the former territories of the Terran Mercantile Community in 588 and directly controlled them until it devolved its authority to the Solomani Autonomous Region in 704. The Mercantile Community had ceased to exist about 1,600 years before and few of the worlds that came under Imperial dominion had any tangible link to it.
  • Solomani Autonomous Region (704 to 940).

Native Sophonts

No sophont species are believed to have originated in this area.

Demographics

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

Humaniti (Human races)

• Solomani (Major Race): widely spread across the region.
• Mixed or other heritage (Major Race): occasionally encountered across the region.
• Vilani (Major Race): a few genetically distinct individuals and communities.

Non-Human Races

• Aslan (Major Race): principally found on Telemachus but occasionally encountered 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.
• 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.

General Historical Timeline

Major events that have affected this subsector and the wider region 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 subsector.
• 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 subsector.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the subsector becomes widely available.

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Subsector Summary

Hulda, subsector E of Canopus, contains 17 worlds with an estimated combined population of 26 billion, a per capita income of Cr7,578, and a total economy of BCr197,120. These worlds originate an interstellar trade of BCr382 through 10 starports (3 Class A, 3 Class B, 2 Class C, 2 Class D) employing 85,030 people. Driving this interstellar trade are one Agricultural (Ag) world, two Non-Agricultural (Na) worlds, no Pre-Agricultural (Pa) worlds, no Pre-Industrial (Pi) worlds, no Rich (Ri) worlds, and one Industrial (In) world. The governments in Hulda maintain three Naval bases and three Military bases. The average technology level is 7 (with most between 3 and 10). The highest technology level is 14 at Hipponax (Canopus 0118).

Hulda, subsector E of Canopus, contains 24 stars and 198 identified planets; 12 monostellar systems, three binary systems, two trinary systems, and no systems with four or more stars. 14 of the 17 systems (82%) have native gas giants. There are no Asteroid (As) belts, two Desert (De) worlds, no Garden (Ga) worlds, two Ice-capped (Ic) worlds, two Poor (Po) worlds, four Vacuum (Va) worlds, and two Water (Wa) or Ocean (Oc) worlds.

Hulda has an estimated population of 26 billion distributed across two High population (Hi) worlds, no Moderate population (Ph) worlds, eight Non-industrial (Ni) worlds, five Low population (Lo) worlds, and two Barren (Ba) worlds. The highest population world is Hipponax (Canopus 0118). The population consists primarily of 2 sophont groups.

2 identified sophont populations in Hulda
Humaniti of Terra (Solomani Rim 1827): 26 billion on 15 worlds. Aslan of Kusyu (Dark Nebula 1226): Less than 1 million on two worlds.

Solomani Confederation

The Solomani Confederation has jurisdiction over 16 worlds in the subsector with an estimated combined population of 26 billion, a per capita income of Cr7,578, and a total economy of BCr197,120. These worlds originate an interstellar trade of BCr382 through 9 starports (3 Class A, 3 Class B, 1 Class C, 2 Class D) employing 85,030 people. Driving this interstellar trade are one Agricultural (Ag) world, two Non-Agricultural (Na) worlds, no Pre-Agricultural (Pa) worlds, no Pre-Industrial (Pi) worlds, no Rich (Ri) worlds, and one Industrial (In) world. The governments in the Solomani Confederation maintain three Naval bases and three Military bases within the subsector. The average technology level is 7 (with most between 3 and 10). The highest technology level is 14 at Hipponax (Canopus 0118).

The Solomani Confederation has an estimated population of 26 billion within the subsector, distributed across two High population (Hi) worlds, no Moderate population (Ph) worlds, eight Non-industrial (Ni) worlds, four Low population (Lo) worlds, and two Barren (Ba) worlds. The highest population world is Hipponax (Canopus 0118). The population consists primarily of 2 sophont groups.

• The Solomani Confederation subsector capital of Hulda is Hipponax (Canopus 0118).

Non-Aligned, Human-dominated

There is one Non-Aligned Human-dominated world in Hulda with an estimated population of less than 1 million.

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)
• John Harshman, Marc Miller. Solomani (Game Designers Workshop, 1986), IFC, pages 3, 28. (sector named, background for the sector)
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), IFC. (Wars of the Imperium: sector named and shown)
• Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), pages 8-11, various others. (dot map locating the worlds of the sector, background for the sector)
• Michael Taylor. Fighting Ships of the Solomani (QuikLink Interactive, 2009), page 5. (background for the sector)
• David L. Pulver. Solomani (Mongoose Publishing, 2012), pages 28, 50, 118, 119, various others. (background for the sector)
• Zho Berka's Maps (Classic Era UWP Data for the subsector)
• External Link: Ocean of Storms site (Rebellion Era UWP Data for the subsector)
• Author & Contributor: Rupert Boleyn (data generated to match dot map)
• Author & Contributor: Garnfellow (development of the sector)