Hyades Subsector
| Aglaea Subsector | ||||||
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| Sector | Canopus | |||||
| Capital | Dione (world) | |||||
| Number of Systems | 23 | |||||
| Majority Control | Solomani Confederation - 83% | |||||
| 2nd Control | Non-Aligned, Human-dominated - 17% | |||||
Hyades Subsector is Subsector A of Canopus Sector.
- It lies within the Solomani Confederation.
- It is also known as Aglaeah Subsector.
Description (Specifications)
The following astrographic and commercial data has been determined regarding Hyades Subsector:
Astrographic Features
The subsector is a generally unremarkable area lying within the Solomani Confederation.
- It is an average stellar density region.
- It contains the core region of the Hyades Cluster, a notable astrographic feature.
- The brightest stars in the sector are the evolving blue giants contained within the Hyades Cluster.
Stellar Distribution
A basic map showing the distribution and size of stars within Hyades Subsector.
- The color corresponds to the visible color of the star, which links to its spectral classification.
- The size as shown indicates both the physical size of the object and its relative brightness.
- The core region of the Hyades Cluster is marked by a blue circle.
(Chart sourced from Traveller Map)
Note that the stars as depicted are representative. Any star, no matter what its size, is a mere speck within the hex it occupies.
- Ordinary main sequence stars can barely be seen from even a hex away.
- Huge, intensely luminous giant stars can be seen from across the subsector and far beyond.
Rift Regions
The subsector contains a single rift region:
- The Hulda Waste.
(Chart sourced from Traveller Map)
Locally at least, a rift is an astrographic and commercial concept based on Jump Drive performance.
- Most commercial vessels typically use Jump Drives capable of Jump-3 or less.
- Areas that cannot be crossed by Jump-3-capable vessels are denoted as rifts.
- Rifts represent a considerable obstacle to interstellar trade and commerce.
Hyades Cluster
The Hyades is the nearest open cluster to Terra, lying around 47 parsecs from Sol. It consists of a roughly spherical group of hundreds of stars sharing the same age, place of origin, chemical characteristics, and motion through space. When viewed from the surface of Terra, the Hyades form part of the head of the constellation of Taurus, the Bull.
- The Cluster is visible to the naked eye on worlds across the region.
The core of the Cluster occupies Astrographic Hex Locations 0402, 0502, 0503, and 0602 of the subsector.
- The Cluster contains no known viable worlds and is not marked as a travel destination on commercial star charts.
- The whole of the core region should be considered a Red Zone for travel purposes.
A basic overview of the Cluster:
(Imagery sourced from Traveller Map)
- Note that the stars as depicted are representative. Any star, no matter what its size, is a mere speck within the hex it occupies.
However, the largest of those specks shine extremely brightly.
Within the Cluster
The core of the Cluster is more than 2.5 parsecs across and lies close to the coreward edge of Hyades Subsector (Subsector A of Canopus Sector).
- It contains around 200 stars, including a number of giant, short-lived B-type stars that have evolved off of the main sequence, several other giants, numerous main sequence stars, a small number of brown dwarf substellar objects, and a few tiny white dwarf stellar remnants.
- The Cluster contains large amounts of ionized gas and dust which diffuse, refract, and reflect the light of the stars, giving it an ethereal glow.
The stars within the Cluster have extremely powerful, wildly fluctuating magnetic fields that interact with one another over vast distances. They twist and sculpt the vast gas clouds that surround them into ghostly bulbs, columns, and spires that can have dimensions measured in thousands of AU.
- Radiation levels within the cluster are extremely high: exposure to local radiation levels causes serious health issues and damages electronic devices.
- Gravitational effects within the Cluster's core render jump drives either inoperative or extremely likely to suffer a catastrophic misjump: jumping into the cluster is likely to be a one way trip.
- The cluster causes significant interference, strange tones and loud noises, and extreme static on commo and sensors, severely hampering functionality and usage.
Central Anomaly
The very center of the Cluster is believed to contain a Space-Time Anomaly. The nature of this feature, if it exists, remains unclear.
Broader Effects
The tidal influence of the stars at the Cluster's core can be measured around ten parsecs away from the core region. The extended halo of stars associated with the cluster (stars sharing very similar physical characteristics and motion) extends rimward deep into Canopus Sector, to spinward into the Ustral Quadrant and Dark Nebula sectors, coreward into Magyar Sector, and trailing into Aldebaran Sector and the Solomani Rim.
- Many of the stars within this region are in the process of escaping from the cluster.
- The cluster's huge stars cause interference, strange tones and noises, and heavy static on commo and sensors for many parsecs around the feature.
Economic Astrography
The following commercial and economic data regarding the subsector is available:
Corporations
Corporations and organizations active within the sector include:
- ConTech, a corporation specializing in life sciences, particularly large-scale bio-terraforming projects, medicine, and cloning.
- Guardian Military Systems, a large corporation involved in defense and armaments manufacture, with its core area of operations within the sector.
- 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 spinward and rimward parts of the Confederation.
- 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 Maschinenbau (SolMan) AG, a corporation with interests in heavy engineering and starship manufacture throughout the spinward half of the Confederation.
- 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 sector are patrolled by the Solomani Navy. It defends Confederation territory, protects Confederation interests, suppresses piracy, and ensures interstellar trade and commerce.
- Confederation vessels may demand customs inspections.
- Some systems are defended by local naval forces.
World Listing
Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that lie within Hyades Subsector 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.
History & Background (Dossier)
Solomani Security keeps a close eye on things to ensure the security of the Solomani State and the well-being of its loyal citizens. Aslan are uniformly less likely to be cooperative with Solomani interests, but almost anyone could be a SolSec informant, passing on all sorts of useful information: some gain a reward or benefit for their actions, while others can be manipulated or coerced.
Polity Listing
Major Powers
- Solomani Confederation (human powers):
- The subsector lies entirely within the borders of the Solomani Confederation.
Non-Aligned Powers (World-States)
- Non-Aligned, Human-dominated.
A number of human-dominated non-aligned worlds lie within the territory of the Solomani Confederation. They are not officially members of that state, choosing instead to remain as technically neutral worlds, usually as a result of complicated domestic politics, belief in self-reliance, or isolationist attitudes. Despite their neutral status, almost all of these worlds rely on the Confederation for trade and defense and actively cooperate with Solomani interests.
Native Sophonts
No (sophont species) are believed to have originated in this area.
Demographics
Humaniti (Human races)
- Solomani (Major Race): widely spread across the region.
- Mixed or other heritage: occasionally encountered across the region.
- Vilani (Major Race): a few genetically distinct individuals and communities.
Linguistic Topography
The most commonly heard languages are:
- Rim Anglic, a dialect of Anglic and the principal language of the Solomani Confederation.
General Historical Timeline
Major events that have affected this subsector and the wider region 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. The young Terran Confederation battles against the ancient Vilani Ziru Sirka.
- -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the former Ziru Sirka.
- -1999: the Aslan gain jump drive technology.
- -1862 to -1110: the Terran Mercantile Community is active within the region.
- -1776 to 0: the Long Night.
- -1118 to 380: the Aslan Border Wars.
- -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 subsector.
- 380: the Peace of Ftahalr ends the ongoing Aslan Border Wars and establishes understandings regarding human and Aslan influence.
- 588: the Old Earth Union and the former territories of the Terran Mercantile Community are annexed by the Imperium, moving its border adjacent to the Aslan Hierate.
- 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 subsector.
- 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the subsector becomes widely available.
Subsector Summary
Hyades, subsector A of Canopus, contains 23 worlds with an estimated combined population of 43 billion, a per capita income of Cr3,812, and a total economy of BCr165,561. These worlds originate an interstellar trade of BCr3,808 through 15 starports (5 Class A, 3 Class B, 6 Class C, 1 Class D) employing 608,900 people. Driving this interstellar trade are three Agricultural (Ag) worlds, one Non-Agricultural (Na) world, three Pre-Agricultural (Pa) worlds, one Pre-Industrial (Pi) world, one Rich (Ri) world, and no Industrial (In) worlds. The governments in Hyades maintain four Naval bases, and two Military bases. The average technology level is 8 (with most between 5 and 10). The highest technology level is 13 at Bream (Canopus 0403).
Hyades, subsector A of Canopus, contains 35 stars and 249 identified planets; 12 monostellar systems, ten binary systems, one trinary system, and no systems with four or more stars. 20 of the 23 systems (86%) have native gas giants. There are no Asteroid (As) belts, three Desert (De) worlds, two Garden (Ga) worlds, one Ice-capped (Ic) world, three Poor (Po) worlds, no Vacuum (Va) worlds, and three Water (Wa) or Ocean (Oc) worlds.
Hyades has an estimated population of 43 billion distributed across two High population (Hi) worlds, one Moderate population (Ph) world, ten Non-industrial (Ni) worlds, eight Low population (Lo) worlds, and one Barren (Ba) world. The highest population world is Dione (Canopus 0404). The population consists primarily of 3 sophont groups.
| 3 identified sophont populations in Hyades | |
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Solomani Confederation
The Solomani Confederation has jurisdiction over 19 worlds in the subsector with an estimated combined population of 43 billion, a per capita income of Cr3,813, and a total economy of BCr164,010. These worlds originate an interstellar trade of BCr3,736 through 11 starports (4 Class A, 2 Class B, 4 Class C, 1 Class D) employing 595,390 people. Driving this interstellar trade are two Agricultural (Ag) worlds, one Non-Agricultural (Na) world, two Pre-Agricultural (Pa) worlds, no Pre-Industrial (Pi) worlds, one Rich (Ri) world, and no Industrial (In) worlds. The governments in the Solomani Confederation maintain two Naval bases and two Military bases within the subsector. The average technology level is 8 (with most between 5 and 10). The highest technology level is 13 at Bream (Canopus 0403).
The Solomani Confederation has an estimated population of 43 billion within the subsector, distributed across two High population (Hi) worlds, no Moderate population (Ph) worlds, ten Non-industrial (Ni) worlds, six Low population (Lo) worlds, and one Barren (Ba) world. The highest population world is Dione (Canopus 0404). The population consists of 3 sophont groups.
- The Solomani Confederation subsector capital of Hyades is Dione (Canopus 0404).
Non-Aligned, Human-dominated
There are four Non-Aligned Human-dominated worlds in Hyades with an estimated combined population of 420 million.
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Classic Traveller Alien Module 6: Solomani (named but no further data)
- MegaTraveller Solomani & Aslan (dot map provided)
- T20 Fighting Ships of the Solomani
- Mongoose Traveller: Solomani
- GDW Map of Charted Space
- EXTERNAL LINK: Zho Berka's Maps
- Author & Contributor: Rupert Boleyn (Data generated to match dot map)