The Beyond

## History

The Beyond lies entirely outside of the Third Imperium and Zhodani Consulate and at the edge of Aslan expansion behind The Claw. Large empires have never claimed its space but adventurous, determined or desperate settlers among Humaniti, Aslan and Vargr have encroached upon the once uncharted star systems of The Beyond for nearly 3,000 years. Although Major Races from distant worlds have carved out slices of the sector, the native Sred\*Ni and neighbouring Floriani hold territory and resist encroachment.

A few native races and a scattering of sophonts transplanted by the Ancients have occupied a small number of systems in The Beyond for hundreds of thousands of years. The first starfaring humans to settle in the sector were dissidents from the Sindalian Empire in the neighbouring Trojan Reach. This Sindalian Diaspora continued until -1400, bringing civilisation to a few dozen worlds with many joining the Corellan League, a confederation of occasionally fractious systems.

A thousand years prior to the formation of the Third Imperium, Aslan explorers and settlers from across the Great Rift began to encroach into the sector’s rimward and trailing corner. The eventual contact and conflict between the League and expanding Aslan marked a second era in the history of The Beyond. For 1,000 years, Humaniti and Aslan fought a dozen conflicts. The arrival of scouts from the Third Imperium during the early 200s brought news of resurgent human civilisation. However, aid came not in ships or troops but in diplomacy, which ended the Aslan Expeditions with the Peace of Kaiear in 422, more than 40 years after the Peace of Ftahalr had brought amity between the Third Imperium and the Aslan Hierate.

Only then did new human settlers from the Third Imperium begin to arrive, sporadically at first, then in a Great Pulse of immigration in the 600s following the turbulent period of the first two Frontier Wars and the Civil War. The sporadic waves of settlers from Imperial space marked the beginning of the present era of The Beyond’s history, with the region becoming more reliably linked to the wider civilisations of Charted Space. The Beyond remains a volatile frontier region, with various races and states trading, competing and occasionally fighting to carve out their piece of the sector.

### Pre-Aslan Era

The first non-native settlers to enter The Beyond after the fall of the Ancients were dissidents and refugees from the Sindalian Empire. For centuries, a few sparsely populated worlds represented one of the furthest outposts of Solomani-descended Humaniti. Although pre-Maghiz Darrian scouts and Vargr settlers began to arrive from trailing and coreward in the latter part of this period, the arrival of the first wave of Aslan settlers was what ended this early era of The Beyond’s history

### Aslan Expeditionary Era

The arrival of Aslan scouts and ihatei settlers changed the nature of The Beyond. No longer was it an isolated and sparsely settled region subject to few outside influences. The stress of Aslan expansion, and to a lesser degree the arrival on the interstellar scene of the Floriani and Sred\*Ni, brought external pressures on the squabbling post-Sindalian settlements, at times uniting and at others fragmenting the Humaniti of The Beyond. For 1,000 years, conflict dominated the region with a dozen Aslan Expeditions – wars – fought between -603 and 422.

### Settlement Era

The Imperial consul of Waypoint (Tartakover), Alberto Rannvik, later Baron Rannvik, negotiated an end to 1,000 years of conflict between the Corellan League and the Aslan Hierate – or technically began an armistice with the 11 clans who signed the Peace of Kaiear. The Storm Knights, long a fixture of Corellan culture and myth, removed themselves from active participation in League matters and became rulers of the Stormhaven Republic buffer state. This landmark treaty also began the period of influence of the Third Imperium upon The Beyond. Prior to this era, the only permanent Imperial presence was the research station at Delta Cephei. In the century following the Peace of Kaiear, Imperial scouts, traders and even settlers began to affect the politics and demographics of The Beyond. By the 600s, a Great Pulse of Imperial settlers entered The Beyond, with some continuing spinward into the Vanguard Reaches. Some of these new settlers were absorbed by existing systems and states, others founded new settlements and governments, which persist into present times.

## Governments of **The Beyond**

* Principality of Brukhar
* Corellan League
* Hefrin Colony
* I'Sred Protectorate
* Katanga Empire
* Monarchy of Lod
* Duchy of Mapepire
* Nakris Confederation
* Stormhaven Republic
* Zydarian Codominium

## Organizations of **The Beyond**

Besides human governments and Aslan clans, other organisations have considerable power in The Beyond Sector. Many of these are corporate but this far from the Third Imperium and the megacorporations ubiquitous across 10,000 systems have much less sway. The markets of the distant sector are not large by Imperial standards. The entire population of Humaniti in The Beyond is less than 50 billion, less than a seventh of the population of the Spinward Marches. Seven individual systems in Deneb have a greater population than all of Humaniti across The Beyond.

Trade in this sector is dominated by local corporations, many of Corellan origin. Within the Corellan League a multi-system corporation is registered by the League as a Consortium. Collectively they are known as the Consortia. Consortium registration grants advantages in transferring profits, assets and inventory between systems, and provides broad legal protections, but also requires board membership and ownership to be spread among at least three member worlds.

Other organisations such as the Storm Knights of Stormhaven have a reach and tradition extending beyond national boundaries but they are more closely tied to their governments.

* Gateway Consortium
* Kraken Heavy Industries Consortium
* Shalukin Consortium
* Web Edge Consortium
* Storm Knights

## Native Aliens of **The Beyond**

* Aniyun
* Ewurmer
* Gmina
* Kemlae
* Ktiauao
* Mal'Gnar
* Sred\*Ni
* Teakhea