Longshots NPCs
NPCs
Great Powers
Minor Worlds
Doha
Hanns
Jaffna
Maui
Natanya
Ramthonodox
Redentor
Stannis
Tersi
Triumph
Locations
Galapagos
Galapagos, the Jewel of the Rim, situated two jumps from both Liliam and Laughter. Within the goldilocks zone is a two-Earth mass-scattered planet, providing resources with geological ore density but the accessibility of asteroids. The entire region is also sprinkled with precursor delta dust, which can be collected with modifications of old ramscoop design concepts. Currently Galapagos is the object of a total war between the neighbouring great powrers, and the victor will surely springboard to local dominance.
The Scramble
East of the Republic of Liliam there is 'the Scramble', a region of incoherent and rapidly fluctuating jump geometry.
The Swamp
West of the Laughter Dynasty there is a small nebula filled with red dwarfs. There aren't any colonies there (not any more, certainly), but there are an awful lot of drones. The hazards of navigation and high star density mean this section of space is very poorly mapped.
The Threshold
Also called the Abyss, the Verge, the Desert or simply 'the Edge'. As you move out past the limits of the pathfinder programme, past local exploration and trade caravans, the jump lines thin out and colonies become ever sparser. With nothing to guide ships except dumps from decades-old nav computers and the intuition of explorers, the Threshold is the real last frontier, and frankly there's little reason to challenge it. And yet sometimes, people do.
The Void
South of Doha is a large region of space with no jump lines, despite sufficient mass present to anchor one.