Vanguard Reaches

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Vanguard Reaches
Publisher	Paranoia Press
Version	Classic Traveller
Author	Chuck Kallenbach
Format	small
Canonical	no
Year Published	1981
Pages	28

The editor Paranoia Press developed two sectors for Traveller: Beyond (The Beyond) and the Vanguard Reaches (Vanguard Reaches). Later on, these developments were considered non-canonical by Game Designers' Workshop, official descriptions of these zones being entrusted to the editor of Digest Group Publications. As opposed to what it occurred for the four sectors from Judges Guild, the canonical and non-canonical versions of The Beyond and the Vanguard Reaches differ only superficially.

The sector of the Vanguard Reaches is apart from Imperium, and relatively far from the zones of influence Aslan and Zhodani. It is thus a whole of planets isolated and various small interstellar governments often customers from the great remote empires. After the matter table and the appropriations, an introduction briefly presents the context. One also finds there the explanations of the vocabulary, the signs and the abbreviations which are employed in the following pages.

The sixteen pages which follow describe each one a subsector of the sector of the Reaches: Issoudun, Andwella, Coos, Trelyn, Chapra, Haldensleben, Pandemonium, Eslyat, Eckmann Schrift, Four Corners, Diadem, Kajaani, Helix, Hyperion, Old Colonies and Jarnac. Each under-sector is described by the standard table including/understanding a line by world giving its name, its political alignment, its site, its universal profile (series of figures describing its characteristics), various notes (establishments, absence of gas giants, etc), and commercial classification (poor, industrial, agricultural, etc). Certain under-sectors profit from an explanatory paragraph summarizing the local context, in particular from a political point of view. The page dedicated to the sub-sector of Helix contains the description of an extremely dangerous space zone, a nebula, and rules for running an voluntary navigation into this ionized hydrogen cloud.

The chapter "Vanguard Reaches Library Data" is a succession of thorough articles describing certain elements of the sector, like the various political entities and several political and governmental organizations. Two new local minor races are also presented: the watery Eslyat and the Muriens.

The booklet is concluded by a very detailed index. The chart included presents a general plan of the sector. The position of the worlds is presented, as well as the trade routes. The symbols used to represent the various worlds are appreciably different from the official version of GDW : circles represent the ordinary worlds, the stars represent the capitals. The color of each sign indicates the presence (black) or the absence (white) of gas giants. The capitals of the interstellar governments are sometimes surrounded of a blazon. The chart does not give the names of the worlds: it is necessary for that to refer to the booklet.

Source Information

In 1997, Kallenbach published the text of this book, along with some updates, on the Paranoia Press web site (no longer available). He also allowed the information to be copied into the Galactic distribution.

External Links

The original description in French