INTRODUCTION

"Beyond the Great Rift, beyond the Imperium and beyond the law" adequately
describes both the location and the climate of those sixteen subsectors
which comprise the sector known, simply, as Beyond.
    Beyond lies directly coreward of the Great Rift, rimward of the Zhodani
Consulate, and some 120 parsecs due spinward of Capital, itself.  The
trailing coreward portion of Beyond is considered by some astrographers to
be part of the Out Rim Void, a relatively uncharted area concentrated in the
spinward part of the adjacent trailing sector.
    Located immediately spinward-rimward of the Spinward Marches, Beyond
shares with it a reputation for conflict and intrigue.  It is here in
Beyond that the traveller will find the strongest concentration of
Comsentient Alliance worlds and protectorates--as well as Aslan, Droyne,
Mal'Gnar, Eslyat and Sred*Ni settlements.  Some of the latter are
full-fledged members of the Alliance; some seek admission to, or at least
association with, the Imperium; and some, such as the Mal'Gnar, remain
aloof to the petty maneuverings og Humaniti and other sentients" and wish
only to be left undisturbed.
    Beyond consists of sixteen subsectors with a total of 463 worlds.
The total population as of 335-1042 was 561 billion sentients, distributed
as follows: 493.7 billion Humaniti (including less than 10 thousand Zhodani
and 35.5 billion Mal'Gnar); 37.8 billion Aslan; 29.5 billion Sred*Ni; and
967 thousand Droyne.

    This is a compendium of data about Beyond.  It provides pregenerated
subsectors for use by TRAVELLER referees and players, as well as a source
of library data concerning the locations and installations for use in any
TRAVELLER campaign or scenarios.

REQUIRED MATERIAL

    In addition to these data, GDW's basic TRAVELLER, THE SPINWARD MARCHES,
and TWILIGHT'S PEAK, and Paranoia Press' VANGUARD REACHES are necessary
for complete understanding of many of the terms and symbols used herein.

STANDARDS AND ASSUMPTIONS

    As in TRAVELLER SUPPLEMENT 3, THE SPINWARD MARCHES, the following
assumptions are used in the text of this booklet.  They may be altered as
necessary to correspond to the situations in which the travellers may
find themselves.

DATES: All dates herein conform to the Imperial Calendar, although the
major cohesive political entity in Beyond is the Comsentient Alliance.  The
assumed date for these data is 052-1107, the 52nd day of the 1107th year
of the Imperium and, parenthetically, the 403rd year of the Comsentient
Alliance.

PLANETARY DATA: The Universal Planetary Profile as described in the
TRAVELLER BOOK 3, WORLDS AND ADVENTURES, is utilized throughout to describe
the characteristics of the worlds within Beyond.  Trade Classifications
under TRADE NDX conform to those described in THE SPINWARD MARCHES.
Additional notes which may be of interest to travellers are also included
under each Subsector info.  The Travellers' Aid Society Travel Zone
Classifications have been widely adopted in Beyond and TAS hostels may be
founbd at most Class A and many Class B starports.  The codes are: "A"
for an Amber Zone; "R" for a Red Zone; and "G" for a gas giant.
    The following additional characteristics have been added to those
described in TRAVELLER, BOOK 3, WORLDS AND ADVENTURES, in order to reflect
the unique nature of Beyond.

Characteristic  Code    Explanation

Diameter          A     10,000 miles, or 16,093 kilometers
                  B     12,000 miles, or 19,312 kilometers
                  C     13,000 miles, or 20,921 kilometers
                  J     93,000,000 miles, or 149,664,900 kilometers

Atmosphere        D     Carbon dioxide
                  M     Methane
                  R     Radioactive

Government        E     Patriarchal warrior ethic
                  F     Select military elite

Law Level         A     May not own evergy weapons
                  B     May not own military weapons
                  C     May not own concealable firearms
                  D     May not own any type of firearm
                  E     May not own bladed weapon
                  F     May not own anything which may be used as a weapon

Tech Level        +     Occasional non-Imperial

Miscellaneous     V     May appear under any UPP characteristics.  The
                        characteristic indicated varies, either naturally
                        or artificially, from point to point or from time
                        to time.

SPECIAL INSTALLATIONS AND WORLD ALIGNMENTS

Because there are many political factions within Beyond, an expanded system
of codes has been developed to aid the traveller in identifying the various
installations and political alignments.  The following special installations
may be found under each Subsector info.

ARCHIVES: A repository of public, official, military, and/or historical
records.  It is usually associated with one or more of the political
factions within Beyond, although there is rumored to be at least one
Imperial archive in die Weltbund.

ASSASSINS' INSTITUTE: An installation dedicated to the education and
training of assassins.  The institute may consist of one or more buildings,
one or more villages or undeveloped areas, or even the entire world.

CONTAINMENT FACILITY: The entire world has been developed and is being
maintained as a containment facility (prison) for those adjudged guilty
of crimes against prevailing laws, customs, and/or mores.  In the case
of the Comsentient Alliance, the only crime which carries a penalty of
"containment" is that of deliberate anti-sentient activities.  Normally,
containment facilities will carry a Red Zone classification, but in any
case visits are absolutely forbidden unless authorized (or one way).

OUTPOST: An outpost is similar to an Imperial way station but is, of
course, non-Imperial.  The base has been established for the storage,
maintenance, refitting, and refuelling of equipment belonging to the
political faction which has final authority over the outpost or subsector.

RELAY POINT: A location committed to the relaying of data, goods or
entities for specific purposes.  Many of these are Licensed
Information/Communication Exchange (LICE) relay points; some of these are
Imperial way stations leased from, or at least tolerated by, the
Comsentient Alliance.

RESEARCH FACILITY: A facility dedicated to one or more research projects
of particular interest to one or more political factions or private
corporations.

SANCTUARY: A world where any sentient may find safety, regardless of its
reason for seeking sanctuary.  While extradition is almost impossible,
especially without the consent of the individual, the sanctuary given may
be less desirable than the expected punishment.  Often, a sentient given
sanctuary has few of the rights of the indigenous population--this could
include carrying or owning weapons, the right to vote, the right to
appeal a decision, and the opportunity to earn a living.

IMPERIAL INSTALLATIONS: There are cases of Imperial installations within
Beyond.  The most noteworthy of these is Starbase Arcturus II/I-Glathriel.
Its stated purpose is the observation of the stellar fluctuation of
Delta Cephei in the Spinward Drift, but the Comsentient Alliance is well
aware of its true purpose--observe the Aslan and the Comsentient Alliance,
and any other cohesive political force in Beyond, and maintain xboat
communications with Capital.

INSTALLATION OR BASE CODES

CODES   INSTALLATION

  D     Droyne settlement or ruins present
  I     Imperial base or bases present
  M     Merchant Service Academy present
  N     Installation for naval, marine and/or army forces present,
        affiliatd with the subsector government
  S     Base for scout service or other exploratory organization present,
        usually affiliated with the subsector government
  T     Training or staging area for mercenaries present
  Z     Zhodani Client State or Consular Court
  2     Both naval and scout bases present, usually affiliated with
        the subsector government

WORLD ALIGNMENT CODES

CODES   POLITICAL ALIGNMENT OR AFFILIATION

  Es    Eslyat Magistracy
  I     I'Sred*Ni Heptad Protectorate
  As    Aslan Colonial State
  MP    Associate faction of the Mal'Gnar Primarchic, full member
        factions are prefixed with "Mal"
  Va    Vargr settlement, usually prefixed with "D'Vargr"
  Ma    Member of the Mapepire Cluster
  DW    Die Weltbund
  Zy    Zydarian Codominium

N.B.: Most of the inhabited worlds with Beyond and many of the worlds within
the Vanguard Reaches are represented by tfhe Comsentient Alliance.

CHRONOLOGY OF BEYOND

To students of history, the year is 6380 A.U.C.  To Terrans, it is 5628 A.D.
Within the Comsentient Alliance, it is 402 F.S.  But by Imperial reckoning,
the year is 1107.  Within Beyond, three of these dating systems are widely
utilized: Imperium, Terran and Alliance (dated from the first sitting of
the Grand Council at Rabanitas/Zydar).  This chronology covers the basic
historical events of Beyond, showing the date of the event in each of the
three systems.

IMPERIUM    TERRAN      ALLIANCE    EVENT

Approximately 300,000 years P.I.    "Ancients" thrive
Approximately 250,000 years P.I.    Mal'Gnar are evolved to their present
                                    form
-4520          1 AD     5225 PS     Terran dating system begins
-2737       1784 AD     3442 PS     Discovery of Delta Cephei
-1776       2745 AD     2481 PS     Collapse of the Rule of Man
-1526       2995 AD     2231 PS     Colonization of Liberty Hall Subsector
    0       4521 AD      705 PS     Third Imperium established
   93       4614 AD      612 PS     Arbitrary Initial Survey Point established
                                    by IISS for Beyond Sector survey
   95       4616 AD      610 PS     Subsector Delta surveyed and charted by
                                    IISS
  437       4958 AD      268 PS     Delta Products Corp. founded at
                                    Sha'anoe/Delta
  556       5077 AD      149 PS     Storm Subsector surveyed and charted by
                                    IISS
  594       5115 AD      111 PS     Northstar Interworld Technological
                                    Services founded during the expansion of the
                                    Rimward Fringe
  624       5145 AD       81 PS     Xboat system established
  657       5178 AD       48 PS     Eslyat Magistracy established
  705       5226 AD        0        Comsentient Alliance sits in first Grand
                                    Council at Rabanitas/Zydar
  759       5280 AD       54 FS     Great Hall at Rabanitas/Zydar completed;
                                    Imperium builds Starbase Orion
  832       5353 AD      127 FS     Interworld Division of Enforcement
                                    Services founded during the reign of
                                    Empress Paula II; Starbase Orion
                                    discovers the spinward drift of the
                                    subsector immediately spinward, reports
                                    to Capital result in naming of subsector
                                    for the observed phenomenon
  833       5354 AD      128 FS     Xboat system extended into Beyond
  936       5457 AD      231 FS     Mapepire Cluster developed as tourist
                                    system
  984       5505 AD      279 FS     Beaufort Lines, Ltd., chartered at
                                    Guildheim/Liberty Hall
 1006	    5527 AD	 301 FS	    Jarnac Pashalic established
 1037	    5558 AD      332 FS     Parallel Lines, Unltd., chartered at
				    Intercourse in Subsector Delta
 1042	    5563 AD      337 FS     Imperial census completed in Beyond
 1057	    5578 AD      352 FS	    Altarean Separatists mutiny occurs at
				    Starbase Orion; mutiny quelled,
				    Commodore Harog exiled and starbase
				    renamed Arcturus
 1066	    5587 AD	 361 FS	    Zydarian Codominium formed as haven
				    for malcontents
 1086	    5607 AD	 381 FS	    Delta Products Corp. purchased by
				    Storm, renamed Delta Research
 1101	    5622 AD	 396 FS	    LHeP(Or) Computers "born" at
				    Delta Centre/Metchi' Alagwa
 1105	    5626 AD	 400 FS	    Lady Lysilph Kunseba appointed First
				    Admiral of Comsentient Alliance
 1106	    5627 AD	 401 FS	    Task force dispatched to the Aslani
				    Subsector

