Itsuki Trace
The Itsuki Trace a small cluster lying across the border between Canopus Sector and Hanstone Sector.
- It is an astrographic feature and a minor trade route.
- It lies within a region of Balkanized Space.
Description (Specifications)
The Itsuki Trace is a small cluster straddling the border between Canopus Sector and Hanstone Sector.
- It has seven member systems.
- It is named for Itsuki, an arid, moderate population hell world.
A basic overview of the Trace:
(Chart sourced from Traveller Map)
- The worlds of the Trace are highlighted in brown.
Commercial Data
The following commercial and economic data is available:
Corporations
Corporations and organizations active within the Trace include:
- 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 Solomani Sphere.
- Panstellar, a major transport and logistics corporation.
- Probable Technologies, a scientific research organization involved with both academia and heavy industry, as well as the Confederation military.
- Solomani Shipping, a major transport and logistics corporation.
- Transstar, a Solomani megacorporation specializing in transport and logistics.
Goods
Notable local commodities include:
- (none currently listed)
Security & Defense
The worlds of the Trace are patrolled by local local Naval forces, such as they are. They defend the worlds of the region, protect local interests, suppress piracy, and ensure interstellar trade and commerce.
- Naval vessels may demand customs inspections.
History & Background (Dossier)
High cargo capacity, low jump rating vessels move along the Trace, carrying large amounts of goods and commodities between its member worlds.
Despite the Trace not being a part of the Confederation, Solomani Security keeps a close eye on activities within it to ensure the security of the State 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, while a few see it as an act of duty to help protect the Solomani state and its interests.
Demographics
Significant populations of the following races (sophont species) reside within this area:
- Humaniti (Human races)
- Solomani (Major Race): occasionally encountered across the region.
- Non-Human Races
- Aslan (Major Race): occasionally encountered, typically merchants and traders.
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.
Timeline
Major events that have affected this region and the wider area 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.
- -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the former Ziru Sirka.
- -1862 to -1110: the Terran Mercantile Community is active across the region.
- -1776 to 0: the Long Night.
- -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 region.
- 588: the Old Earth Union and the former territories of the Terran Mercantile Community are annexed by the Imperium.
- 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 region.
- 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the region becomes widely available.
Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)
This astrographic feature is found in the following areas:
Charted Space – Solomani Confederation:
World Listing
Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that are members of the Itsuki Trace 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:
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.
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), pages 8-11. (dot map locating the worlds of the Trace)
- Author & Contributor: IISS Junior Administrator and Master Astrographer Ensign Phillips
- Author & Contributor: MIMIC - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science