Empty Stars

The Empty Stars is a broad expanse of sectors lying to spinward, coreward and trailing of the Distant Fringe, but spinward-rimward of Terra, believed to be unpopulated except for occasional worlds with NILs.

Description / Specifications

The Empty stars covers three distinct Astrographic regions:

The University of Tal Varisa Deep Sky Program and the University of Selasia Spinward Survey run parallel programs to survey and publish concise astrographical surveys of the systems that lie within the Empty Stars.

The greater Empty Stars region covers 67 sectors and contains 9,608 star systems.

Sectors

The Distant Fringe – the last bastion of Terran humanity – occupies the Demon Cluster.
It is likely that, in the many centuries following the Destruction of Terra, the Vilani Imperium have occupied at least some of the worlds of the Empty Stars during their pursuit of the Last Armada.
Those sectors of the Empty Stars lying directly to coreward-spinward of the Distant Fringe – specifically the Phanic Group – are believed to be the current location of the Voyagers.
The Kineda Cluster is believed to be the domain of the Slavers.
The mythical realms of Lon Beon and the Empire of Thrax are supposed to lie within Lon Beon and Thrax Sectors respectively, within the Centrum Cluster.

Empty Sectors

Void Sectors

Inhabited Sectors

Other Astrographic Features

Clusters & Traces

Rifts & Voids

Major Rifts

Shadow Rifts

Nebulae

Received Signal Sources

Native Sophonts

No sophonts are known for certain to exist within the Empty Stars. The presence of anonymalous signals originating from its distant systems may indicate the presence of advanced NILs. Most authorities concede that there are likely to be many as-yet uncontacted intelligent beings, probably existing at relatively low technological levels.

Possible Human Settlement

Historians argue that there are very probably human-settled worlds beyond the confines of the Distant Fringe, within the Empty Stars region, most likely within its rimward parts, populated by descendants of the Cripple Fleet (to trailing) or the Dissident Fleet (to trailing).

The vessels of both the Cripple Fleet and the Dissident Fleet had healthy and viable crews and carried settlers and pioneers in long-term cold sleep, large numbers of Artificial Gestation Units, vast banks of embryos, and substantial quantities of supplies. It would be extremely unlikely that all of the vessels were lost without being able to settle one or more worlds. To date, none of these supposed lost settlements have made any form of contact.

Though the ultimate fate of the vessels of the Cripple Fleet and the Dissident Fleet is unknown, they have given rise to many tales and legends, including that of Lon Beon.

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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