Charted Space

The region of space inhabited by humans and hundreds of other races, six major races and many minor ones.

• Charted Space encompasses at least 128 sectors and more than 80,000 worlds. Both words are capitalized.
• Please see Astrography and Main for related information.

Description (Specifications)

However, Charted Space is unusual for one important reason – it has sentient life.

Intelligent Life & Charted Space

Non-sentient life has been found beyond the little bubble of well-traveled space inhabited by the various major and minor races, but as far as explorers have traveled in any direction they have not found a sentient species that did not originate in Charted Space. The reason for this island of life among a billion barren worlds is unknown.

Of course, scientists concede that there may be sentient life out there, beyond the explored regions, who have not yet been contacted.

Humaniti & the Stars

There are groups of humans living on far-distant worlds at the edge of Charted Space. But they did not originate there; they were transported from Terra long ago for reasons unknown by a group or species known now as the Ancients.

It is unconfirmed whether human races live beyond the borders of Charted Space.

History & Background (Dossier)

Charted Space is a region, hundreds of parsecs across, that comprises the parts of the galaxy that are inhabited by sophonts and charted by astrographers.

Largest Polities Data Chart

However, even with the immensity of Charted Space, it is but a mere droplet in the vast ocean of stars that is the galaxy.

Largest Polities in Charted Space Based On Population (Populations Over 500 billion)

Empire (Polity)	Controlled Systems	Population (Billions)	Highest TL	Remarks
Third Imperium	8,988	18,009	H	An extremely diverse population of 17,989,466 to 19,009,000 (millions) sophonts (around 18 trillion inhabitants).
Hive Federation	4,464	11,817	J	No information yet available.
Zhodani Consulate	5,850	9,491	G	This includes corewared provinces outside the Sector Matrix
Aslan Hierate	4,628	7,081	G	No information yet available.
Solomani Confederation	1,876	2,956	H	No information yet available.
Two Thousand Worlds	1,077	2,392	F	No information yet available.
Julian Protectorate	1,097	1,645	F	A supra-polity largely dominated by a partnership of humans and vargr located within the Vargr Extents. This number includes all member worlds combined.
Third Empire of Gashikan	652	962	C	This polity is believed to be the largest human-dominated state not ruled by a major human race.
Empire of Varroerth	855	936	G	This polity is the largest Vargr-dominated state within the Vargr Extents.
Kidunal Abeyance	155	634	C	(non-canon): No information yet available.

• Chart created by Nathan Brazil.

Sector Matrix: 1116

The below astrographic charts represent the known bounds of Charted Space.

(216 sectors) (18 x 12 sectors)

Sector Matrix
Y\X	-9	-8	-7	-6	-5	-4	-3	-2	-1	0	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8
+5	ST	Bl	Zh	Sa	Da	Ga	TF	Rz	Li	VF	Df	Ir	Fi	Zo	Sp	Na	Ha	Ex
+4	Vi	Bl	Dr	DJ	CB	Gh	Ks	ZKG	Kn	Kh	OV	KG	An	Rf	Ta	Kt	Ko	Xe
+3	Br																	Mb
+2	Pl																	Ee
+1	TD																	GI
0	CZ																	Mi
-1	Ma																	N!
-2	Ha																	Gz
-3	Tl																	Ko
-4	Kh																	Ge
-5	Af	Oh	Fa	Hf	Ir	Te	Ah	Ba	Ha	Ma	Ha	St	Mi	Da	At	Ka	Uy	Sp
-6	Ta	Ay	Us	Oi	Ea	Ft	El	Ah	Ho	Am	RR	Ph	Tr	Wr	Mu	La	Te	Ap

For a map of subsector allegiances, please see Subsector Map.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• TNE The New Era 1248 Sourcebook 1: Out Of The Darkness
• Novel: Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
• Author & Contributor: Nathan Brazil
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science