Subsector Niedaoida

I picked up Classic Traveller for Free RPG Day (still free), looked at Tales to Astound’s Traveller Out of the Box posts, read Winds of Gath, and was inspired to roll up a subsector.

If I run Traveller, the travellers themselves would be more like those described in Winds of Gath: lower-class, poor, risking death in low passage for a chance to see the galaxy. No ex-military types starting with a ship and thousands of credits, you know.

A Short History

The first Imperium spanned the stars, holding nearly all of humanity in its grasp. It was a feudal construct, ruling through a hierarchy of kings, dukes, barons, and so forth. But central power collapsed, leaving every world to fend for itself. Some worlds retained their Imperial noble families, others rejected them.

Space is now divided between a multitude of independent systems and petty domains. A great power calling itself the New Imperium is on the rise, however. It has conquered several subsectors, but its territory is still just a fraction of the old Imperium. Time will tell if it can rise to dominance, or if it will falter and break.

Subsector Niedaoida

The Niedaoida subsector has been an unimportant backwater since the fall of the old Imperium. Recently, however, several local powers have asserted themselves, and the New Imperium has pushed into the subsector from the southwest.

The BST Triumvirate

An alliance of the former rival worlds Befandefa, Sheen, and Tench. Between the advanced tech of Befandefa, the agricultural industry of Sheen, and the manpower of Tench, the Triumvirate is a force to be reckoned with. It has recently taken control of the worlds of Iva and Anaretella with little trouble. Its neighbours tremble, wondering where the Triumvirate will turn its attention next.

The Bansko Expansion

The moon of Bansko is the subsector’s most technologically advanced world. Though sparsely populated, Bansko has built itself a massive robot army, and bought a navy from outside the subsector. The unstoppable robot soldiers have conquered Vicente, Kasman and Moller in quick succession.

The Auley Zone

For a long time, Auley saw itself as the subsector’s major power. Today, that is not so clear cut. Squeezed between BST and Bansko to the north, and the New Imperium to the south, Auley has hastily assembled an alliance with its neighbours Petrel, Daara, Jayasuriya, Roudnitska, and Tharu. Though in truth, most of these worlds have little to contribute. Auley has established military bases on each of them, granting at least symbolic protection.

The New Imperium

The New Imperium pushes into the subsector, and has claimed the major world of Kelvin as its beachhead. Kelvin has become a fully integrated Imperial world, meaning it is free to conduct its internal affairs as it pleases, as long as it pays taxes and contributes to the Imperial military. The minor worlds of Watson and Kreutzer have not been integrated, and are under the direct control of Imperial governors and bureaucrats.

Niedaoida

When the subsector was named, Niedaoida was its most powerful and prosperous world. It still has the highest population, but its glory days have long since faded. The world government has dissolved, giving way to many squabbling nation-states. Resource shortages have led to technological regression, and its once proud shipyards rust away.

Vibex Space

Vibex is isolated from the rest of the subsector. The world’s government are nervous about the inscrutable aims of the Enethyans, and has seized control of the nearly uninhabited world of Spragg to “keep a closer eye on them”.

Enethy

The Enethy asteroid belt is home to the only known intelligent alien species in the Niedaoida subsector - and even so the Enethyans are just a rumor outside of their isolated corner of space. They are in contact with the few humans who live in their neighbouring systems, but their goals are a mystery.

Full List of Worlds

 I'll link planets in this list as I write them up.

• 01 Iva - C566468-6
• 05 Auley - A234734-D
• 08 Kelvin - A756720-C
• 09 Kreutzer - B452568-C
• 10 Prunum - DAB4532-8
• 12 Anaretella - B799666-A
• 15 Petrel - B469551-8
• 16 Daara - C148545-8
• 17 Watson - C673599-5
• 19 Takan - D69A676-6
• 21 Tench - B1007A9-D
• 22 Gaffa - C441404-8
• 23 Banshu - B566332-6
• 24 Miconia - C3888A9-7
• 26 Jayasuriya - BAC67A9-7
• 27 Roudnitska - C539523-9
• 30 Sheen - A577799-C
• 31 Befandefa - B100458-E
• 33 Niedaoida - C7A3879-6
• 34 Moller - C300668-A
• 35 Cephalotes - C669843-6
• 36 Tharu - C6477B7-3
• 39 Vibex - A122545-C
• 40 Bennec - B9565A9-B
• 53 Kasman - B999468-9
• 57 Gemin - X220789-2
• 58 Spragg - D687264-2
• 60 Isen - E535459-8
• 61 Braein - C224612-8
• 62 Vicente - C201669-8
• 69 Enethy - A000744-B
• 70 Schood - C341644-7
• 73 Bansko - B310456-F
• 75 Wandell - B784247-6
• 77 Blox - D310423-6
• 78 Voken - E333259-6