Longshots NPCs
NPCs
Great Powers
Minor Worlds
Doha (Trade hub station spread out from a posthuman structure. Bazaar of the bizarre.)
Hanns (Failing sixpacks surveillance state.)
Jaffna
Maui (Pacific islanders in space!)
Ramthonodox
Redentor (Redentor is a colony built around the vast and mysterious Monoliths and the energy they provide. Or provided, until they inexplicably shut down.)
Stannis
Tersi (Good-guy Space Monarchy)
Tolstoy (The planets are named after his works.)
Triumph
Locations
Galapagos
Galapagos, the Jewel of the Rim, a binary red star system situated two jumps from both Liliam and Laughter. Approximately 115MYA, the precursors engineered a planetary collision for some unknown purpose, creating an infinity ring that was colonised by mining drones during the Velan period. The vast hidden deposits of refined ores they left behind are highly industrially valuable. 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.