Trojan Reach Sector
The Outrim void. The Trojan reach. The place where empires die. Between the Spinward Marches and the ever-advancing Aslan Hierated is an expanse of wild space called the Trojan Reach. A narrow ribbon of stars, the dust-spice trade route, links the two empires. Every day, ships brave the perilous crossing from Imperium to Hierate, navigating a circuitous route from Fist (Tobia 3215) to Tyokh (Tiaiowaha 2226). Between these two worlds is a sea of lawless, dangerous planets.
The Reach is where empires run aground and mortally wound themselves, and where fortunes can be made on trade and commerce. The first Imperium never conquered the Reach; the Second Imperium left isolated colonies across its expanse, and even the Third Imperium claims no more than a sixth of the systems here.
The Reach is where empires run aground and mortally wound themselves, and where fortunes can be made on trade and commerce. The First Imperium never conquered the Reach; The Second Imperium left isolated colonies across its expanse, and even the Third Imperium claims no more than a sixth of the systems here.
During the Long Night, another petty empire was arising here-the Empire of Sindal, The Sindalians were barbarian raiders who crowned themselves kings and conquered several dozen worlds before their subjects rose up against them. Today, Sindal is a ruined world of a few hundred dirt farmers whose ancestors once ruled all the night sky, and the Sindalian empire is remembered in confused tales of a golden age and wars amid the stars.
When the Empire of Sindal collapsed, outlying regional capitals became the seat of even lesser kings, and the longest-lasting of these was Drinax (Tliowaha 2223) Drinax's kings claimed half the worlds in their subsector for generations. The Drinaxians were wiser than their cousins; they learned to hide the iron fist of orbital bombardment behind a velvet glove of trade and protection. Drinax itself became a garden world, fat and plump, and oaisis of culture and technology in a dangerous and barbaric sector. The floating palace of Drinax- a huge citadel of beauty and art, suspended on a grav platform of prodigious size- was a wonder of the galaxy.
Then, another empire came to the Trojan Reach. The Aslan were numerous, hungry, aggressive and confident, and the Empire of Drinax was fat, lazy and wholly unaware of the sheer numbers and might of the Hierate.
The Aslan trade routes to the Imperium ran through the Kingdom of Drinax, and the kings became greedy. They demanded tolls, taxes, bribes... and the Aslan were incensed. In a single bloddy war lasting less than a year the Aslan shattered the last surviving remnant of the old Empire of Sindal. Drinax's subject worlds were either conquered by the Aslan or revolted. Drinax itself was blasted to ash, leaving the floating palace as the only remaining property of the King of Drinax. ONe palace... and a few ships. That was 200 years ago.
Today, trade ships from the Imperium and the Hierate pass by broken, beggared worlds. the worlds once claimed by Drinax realise they have exchanged one master for anther, and that the Aslan have even less regard for them then the kings did. The Imperium and the Hierate pretend to be friends while they jockey for position. the sector stands on a knife edge. The right pressure could push half the Trojan Reach into the claws of the Aslan, force and already overstretched Imperium to extend its forces deeper into the Sector.
Geography
The Trojan reach is located on the edge of the great Rift. It is part of the Human clients states of the galaxy. With the Zhonani Consulate to the Spin of the Galaxy The Aslan to the Rim of the Galaxy the Imperium to the trailing of the Galaxy and The Vargr towards the The Core of the Galaxy. While the Spinward Marches are considered the Frontier of the Imperium the Trojan Reach is considered the Wild Wild West of the Imperium.
Riftspan Reaches
Subsectors
- Menorial, Egyrn, Pax Rulin, Gazulin
- Yggdrasil, Dpres, Sindal, Tobia
- Nora'a, Goertel, Tlaiowaha, The Borderland
- Ranib, Silraaihe, Hkea'as, Binary
- No. of Worlds 327
- Population 604,419 million
- Majority Control Third Imperium - 45%
- Secondary Control Aslan Hierate - 34%
- Tertiary Control Pocket empires - 13%
- Quaternary Control Florian League - 8%
- Domain Domain of Deneb
- Balkanized Space
- Capital Various
- Gross Sector Product BCr3,635,573
- Trade Volume BCr14,078
- Imperial Coordinate -4 / 0
Ecosystem
The Trojan Reach is pretty open territory much like the wild west of old times on Terra or Earth at that time.
The Third Imperium: The Great empire only expands to parts of four subsectors, protected by the 'rampart worlds' of Pax Rulin and Tobia. While the Imperium shows little interest in extending its borders it is cultivating several potential 'client states' that the Imperium is cultivating as a buffer against the Hierate. The Imperium is a lazy giant until provoked. The Imperium's interest lies elsewhere right now, but if the Aslan advance or pirate lords makes to much of a nuisance, the Imperial Navey will be dispatched to enforce the will of the Iridium Throne.
The Hierate: To humans, the Aslan Hierate looks like an impossibly frozen tsunami. At any moment, the Aslan horde could jump over the border and conquer the whole reach. The Aslan are certainly an intimidating race. Physically, they are larger and stronger than humans, and while their technology level is not wuite on a par with the Imperium, they make up for this with weight of numbers. External observers miss the deep divides in Aslan Society; the Hierate is a loose alliance of warring clans, and only act rarely act in unison. the Aslan drive for territory means they will inevitably expand into the Trojan Reach. The only question is where their next advance will come. The divided Hierate is much more likely to act than the Imperium. Each clan-and there are dozens of them-has its own navy and can react to pirate attacks or vulnerable worlds with alarming alacrity. No human can predict what the Aslan will do next.
The Trade Route: The trade route between the Hierate and Imperium is important enough to be considered an independent entity. The Imperium exports primarily manufactured goods and dust-spice in exchange for raw materials and Aslan goods; many of the Imperium's exports are resold by the Aslan to independent worlds across the Reach. It takes seven or Eight jump-2 jumps (depending on the course chosen) to cross wild-space, a journey that takes approximately 60 days. Imperial escorts usually follow ships as far as Acrid; the Aslan pick the convoys up at Techworld, while mercenary and corporate escorts follow convoys along the whole route. Pirate Activity varies along the route. Most of the attacks happen in Borderlands subsector, where Travellers must navigate an unpromising series of systems. In general, both Imperium and Hierated tolerate a low level of piratical activity, as long as most of the attacks hit independent, small-scale merchants. Once the losses impact on a megacorporation's bottom line, though, the fleet is sent out to scour the stars and the pirates are driven out of the Borderlands for a few months.
General Development Company: The General Development Company (GeDeCo) is not the largest Imperial Corporation operating in the Reach, but it is one of the most widespread. The Company was originally founded to improve conditions in colonies and independent worlds throughout the Reach, but has become a major political player. GeDeCo advisors have the ear of many rulers of the independent worlds.
Independent Worlds: Most of the independent worlds in the Trojan Reach were settled by exiles or wanderers from the First Imperium, or by long-range colonization efforts by the Second Imperium. During the Long Night, the Sindalian Empire was the great power in the sector; even the worlds that were not conquered by the Empire were under its influence. Today, the worlds of the Reach are isolated, visited only by a few trader. their technology declines, their cultures calcify, and they turn in on themselves. The Aslan will pick them off, one by one.
Pirates of Theev: The free pirates of the Reach use Sindal Subsector as their base of operations, especially the 'pirate world' of Theev. As of 1105, the best known pirates are:
Admiral Darokyn, Peytr Vallis, The Ghost, Hroal Irontooth, The dread Pirated Ashan, and Zuekhvi the Cosair just to name a few.
The Glorious Empire: A splinter state of Aslan, the so called Glorious Empire practices human slavery on a massive scale. Their slave ships are a threat throughout the Reach.
The Florian League: On the far side of the Trojan Reach dwell a strange race of humans called the Florani. They are extremely Xenophobic, and even more conservative than the Vilani. The Florani trade a little with the Imperium; the trade route to the league is also beset by pirates.
Natural Resources
Dust-Spice
Tourism
The Trojan Reach is a major trade route between the Third Imperium and the Aslan Hierate. Where there are Trillions of Credits made between the Imperium and The Hierate.
Alternative Name(s)
The Reach, Or the Wild Space
Type
Galactic Sector
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Related Reports (Primary)
Related Reports (Secondary)
- CSS Rising Shadow: Session 05 Welcome to Drinax. Report
- Session 12: Welcome to the Glisten Subsector Report
- Session 14: Can we make it through the Night Report
- Session 5 INS Andromeda The Fist System. Report
- Session 6 INS Andromeda: Embassy Rescue Report
- Session 7 Imperial Navy vs the Glorious Empire. Report
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