Solomani Confederation

The Solomani Confederation is the third largest Human interstellar state, exceeded only by the Imperium and the Zhodani Consulate. The original boundaries of the Confederation were the Solomani Sphere, a 50-parsec radius zone centered on Terra (Solomani Rim 1827). During the Solomani Rim War a quarter of its territory was lost to the Imperium, leaving a large bite missing from its central coreward region down to Terra.

The present Confederation includes portions of 13 sectors: most of Aldebaran, Alpha Crucis, Canopus, Magyar and Neworld and smaller slices of Dark Nebula, Daibei, the Solomani Rim, Spica and Ustral Quadrant. It also includes slivers of Reaver’s Deep and Old Expanses.

The Solomani Confederation was founded in 871, when the government of the Solomani Autonomous Region reorganized itself in an attempt to strengthen its claims to the heritage of the old Terran Confederation. This gesture was ratified in the Charter for Confederation of the Free Solomani States. Although tantamount to a declaration of independence, the reorganization was officially ignored by the government of the Imperium, until the increasingly belligerent and extremist policies of the Solomani caused many border worlds under Solomani rule to petition the Imperium for redress.

The branches of the Solomani Confederation's government took the names of the government of the Terran Confederation, but the present institutions have little resemblance to those of the past. The chief governing body of the Solomani Confederation is the Secretariat. The Secretariat is presided over by the Secretary General, who is elected from its membership. The Secretary General is the chief administrative officer of the Solomani government, and while the office holds great power, it is fully accountable to the Secretariat.

Representatives to the Secretariat are appointed by the governments of the individual districts. The number of representatives each district may appoint is determined according to that district's contribution to the Solomani economy. A district typically consists of a single world, but low population worlds or depressed areas are combined into multi-world districts. In the case of a district such as this, an election is held to determine the representative from that district. These, however, are not elections in the normal sense; the governments vote, rather than the populace. Each government of such a district is allocated votes (again, according to its economic importance) which are used to elect a representative for that district.

All government officeholders and officials must be members of the official party, the Solomani Movement (officially and often informally called the Solomani Party). Although formerly of great power and influence, the party is now weak, decentralized, and of little importance. Real power in the Confederation is held by the government and the factions.

Because of the greater degree of local autonomy that exists in the Solomani Confederation, interworld factionalism exists to a much greater degree than would be allowed in the Imperium. Coalitions of worlds exist outside the normal government channels, sometimes equalling them in importance within a given region. For example, the Near Boötes Cluster, in the Capella Subsector, dominates large portions of the adjacent subsectors, both economically and politically. Boötean mercantile interests heavily favor peaceful trade with the Imperium, and their influence with the Confederation government is considered to be the primary reason for the unofficial detente between the Confederation and the Imperium. Another example of this factionalism is the ongoing trade war between Kukulcan and the Thetis-Laputa Coalition. The war is causing severe damage to the economy of Kukulcan, but the Coalition has thus far been able to muster enough power to prevent effective intervention by the Confederation government.

MEMBER-STATES:

• Boötean Federation (Solomani Rim)
• Grand United States of Quesada (Aldebaran)
• Hanuman Systems (Langere)
• Kostov Confederate Republic (Neworld)
• New Slavic Solidarity (Magyar)
• Old Earth Union (Solomani Rim)
• Protectorate of Alba (Alpha Crucis)
• Protectorate of Cthonia (Alpha Crucis)
• Reformed Dootchen Estates (Magyar)
• Third Reformed French Confederate Republic (Aldebaran)
• Turin Consolidation (Alpha Crucis)
• Wuan Technology Association (Magyar)

Sectors

The following are the sectors around the Solomani Confederation:

Those sectors with the largest control by Solomani are orange, Aslan are yellow, Imperial red, and Hiver are purple.

Sectors around the Solomani Confederation

	-3	-2	-1	0	1	2	3
-2	Ealiyasiyw	Reaver's Deep	Daibei	Diaspora	Old Expanses	Hinterworlds	Leonidae
-3	Iwahfuah	Dark Nebula	Magyar	Solomani Rim	Alpha Crucis	Spica	Phlask
-4	Uistilrao	Ustral Quadrant	Canopus	Aldebaran	Neworld	Langere	Drakken
-5	Ahkiweahi'	Banners	Hanstone	Malorn	Hadji	Storr	Mikhail
-6	Elyetleisiyea	Ahriman	Holowon	Amderstun	Rim Reach	Phlange	Tracerie

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.

• Supplement 11 Library Data (N-Z)
• Alien Module 6: Solomani
• Solomani & Aslan: The Rimward Races
• GURPS Traveller: Rim of Fire
• Mongoose Traveller: Solomani