New Frontiers

ca 4980AD-5300AD. New Frontiers is a development organisation focused on the trailing half of Far Home Sector. It was divided into Departments: the Central Department consisted of the Pador-Aredian cluster and had its headquarters at Pador (2325 Far Home). The Coreward Department was centered on Ras Tennol.

Description / Specifications

Internal Administration

Central Directorate, headquarters at Yerrin, within the Pador-Aredian Cluster.

• Primary responsibility: Management and oversight of the New Frontiers project.
• Bureau of Sophont Affairs, largely responsible for the interests of the Temelik of Iasanu.

Central Department, headquarters at Yerrin Yerrin.

• Primary responsibility: development of worlds within the Pador-Aredian Cluster.

Coreward Department, headquarters at Ras Tennol.

• Primary responsibility: Development of worlds within Ras Tennol Subsector

Office of the Void, headquarters at Yaradana.

• Primary responsibility: Development of worlds along the Voids Edge, worlds lying to trailing of the Demon’s Eye Rift.

Rim Worlds, headquarters at Alasar.

• Primary responsibility: Exploitation of worlds rimward of the Pador-Aredian cluster
• Later became the gateway between the Pel Avena Directorate and the Pador-Aredian cluster.

History & Background / Dossier

New Frontiers was always a ramshackle organisation, plagued by mismanagement and suffering badly at the hands of pirates. It is best remembered for the Rape of Erena (2823 Far Home) and the Cephet Massacre (2821 Far Home).

Major Historical Events Timeline

• ca 4980AD: Formation of New Frontiers Development Organization.
• ca 5000AD: A pirate coalition known as the Immortals are active, preying on New Frontiers interests.
• 5013AD: Rape of Erena.
• 5014AD: Cephet Massacre.
• 5050AD: Emergence of the Empire.
• ca 5100AD: New Frontiers interests in the region bring it into conflict with the Empire.
• ca 5300AD: The gradual fragmentation of New Frontiers leaves a number of powerful independent worlds within the trailing half of the Sector.

References & Contributors / Sources

This article is missing content for one or more detailed sections. Additional details are required to complete the article. You can help the Traveller Wiki by expanding it.

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.

• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science