Credits

Vanguard Reaches - Credits
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The Vanguard Reaches data are reproduced here with permission
of the author, Chuck Kallenbach II .  Chuck 
expressed the wish that we use the data provided on the Paranoia
Press homepage rather than what was in the actual sector book
(copyright 1981).  These new data, Chuck feels, cover both MT
and TNE and should be valid for T4 as well.

The text for the Library Data was provided by Chuck at his
web site and structured and adapted, without modification to
the wording, for use in GALACTIC.

The stories entitled Von Ryan's War and the Loser's Perspective
were provided by Chuck at the same site and incorporated into
the information for the Duchy of Trelyn.  Von Ryan's War is
reproduced by permission of the author, Chuck Kallenbach II.
The Loser's Perspective is credited to Dan Hillen from original 
ideas by Don Rapp.  Proper credits can be found at the Paranoia 
Press homepage.

Michel Boucher  organized the information
for use in GALACTIC.

Cautionary Note

VANGUARD REACHES LIBRARY DATA
Chuck Kallenbach II
September 4, 1994

NOTE: This library data dates from 001-1120 and does
not reflect the recent political changes in the Duchy of
Trelyn (now called the Trelyn Congress).

Astrography

Astrography: The science of mapping interstellar space.
Basic to any science of mapping is a coordinate system. The
system used by the Imperium is based on rings of latitude,
rays of longitude, and parsecs.

Rays of longitude extend from the galactic core, while
concentric rings of latitude are placed at one parsec
intervals. By convention, the concentric ring passing through
Reference/Capital is labelled the 10,000th ring, and is used
as a baseline. Similarly, the ray of longitude extending from
the center of the Galaxy through Reference/Capital is
designated as the first ray. Measurement is in parsecs,
counting in the trailing direction. Computation reveals that
the circumference of the 10,000th ring (r=10,000) is 62,832
parsecs. Counting spinward uses a subtraction from 62,833,
which is the equivalent of the zero baseline.

For example, Regina, of the Regina subsector, in the
Spinward Marches, is 9930 ring/ray 62723. The format for
expression of location is xxxx ring/ray yyyyy, where xxxx is
the ring of latitude (distance from the galactic core in
parsecs), and yyyyy is the distance of the ray of longitude
(in parsecs) from the first ray of longitude, measured along
the ring of latitude in the trailing direction.

This mapping system is highly Imperio-centric, and other
systems are used by other peoples and races outside the
Imperium. This system has gained wide acceptance, however,
among Imperium dominated client-states, human and otherwise.

(reproduced by permission of the author, Chuck Kallenbach II)

Vanguard Reaches

Vanguard Reaches: Located on the spinward edge of
charted space, the sector called the Vanguard Reaches is
located 138 parsecs directly spinward of the Core sector and
80 parsecs directly rimward of the Zhdant sector. It is an
area of much diversity, the history of which is involved with
two native races and at least five intruding races.

Astrography: The Vanguard Reaches consists of territory
in the plane of the galaxy comprising 16 subsectors, each
measuring 8 parsecs in latitude and 10 parsecs in longitude,
sited in a rectangle 4 subsectors wide and 4 subsectors long.
The perimeter of the sector is identified (using the Imperial
astrography system) as a line extending from 9961 ring/ray
62641 to 9961 ring/ray 62672 to 10000 ring/ray 62672 to 10000
ring/ray 62641 and returning to 9961 ring/ray 62641.

The Vanguard Reaches contains 301 planetary systems with
a total population of over 271 billion sentients. Races
represented include 46.4 billion Imperial (mixed Solomani and
Vilani), 36.8 billion Aslan, 32.9 billion Zhodani, 19.1
billion Eslyat, 17.4 billion Murian, several billion Droyne
and others. The sector includes a racial variety matched by
few others on the spinward frontier.

The most significant astrographic feature is the Helix
Nebula, a circular veil of interstellar gas surrounding a
group of seventeen hot, young stars in the spinward-rimward
corner of the sector.

Surveys: In the period between the beginning of Imperial
explorations into Zhodani territory in 500 and the start of
the First Frontier War in 589, the Imperial Interstellar
Scout Service made a Class I survey of the Vanguard Reaches.

Largely a record of stellar types and superficial system
data, this survey went into little detail and discovered no
significant minor races. This first survey was used as a
basis for information gathering by the Allarton Corporation
in the early 900's.

The Corporation's records continued to expand until,
along with the Travellers' Aid Society, they were
commissioned to do a full scale Class V survey of the entire
sector by Grand Duke Ardesh Varen in the year 1046.

This major survey project was finally published in the
year 1106 by the Travellers' Aid Society. The fledgling Royal
Scouts of the Duchy of Trelyn were also enlisted to aid in
this task, and between the Scouts, the TAS and the Allarton
Corporation, the project fell apart.

The final survey, as published, was a cornucopia of
hearsay, legends, rumors and fabrications. Wild tales of
ringworlds, sphereworlds, rosettes and a few nonexistent
companies were presented as authoritative data. The 1106 TAS
Survey was such a compilation of misinformation that learned
starfarers attempted to obtain the Allarton records of the
early 900's, which were much more reliable.

Several years after the publication of the TAS survey,
Grand Duchess Dyana commissioned a new survey by the Royal
Scouts to include their own experience and new techniques
from the IISS. Now, some twenty years in the making, this
RSDT Survey of 1120 is available to interstellar travellers
in the Reaches. It easily sets new benchmarks for surveys of
the area, and these data are as complete as the most recent
Imperial surveys.

(reproduced by permission of the author, Chuck Kallenbach II)