Fortunately, we have the Great Rift
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MonsterX
Emperor Mongoose
You also get this effect in Mavuzog as I am discovering; it is key to making DNR work since you need to get into unexplored space. It raises questions and problems though, since although ISS may not have info, locals surely would.
TBH, I'm discovering this is also sort of the problem for the Mavuzog & Harea sectors, which are right at the edge of Charted Space, so you end up with a sharp line - long settled space with some high population systems on one side of the arbitrary line and suddenly no settlement at all on the other (indeed, nothing at all there).
As the DNR makes its way into Incognita, I've decided on two things to make it work:
1) the sector line is a far as the ISS has gotten just because that was the mission brief, but there are actual settlements further out. However:
2) settlement does indeed peter out, and there is a strong fear instilled in the cultures of the Theta Borealis and Mavuzog about going spinward. Rumors and half-baked explanations abound. Where this fear comes from is an interesting question. Ships go missing, so do distant settlements. Maybe the crew of the DNR will find out why? Don't worry. I'm sure it will all be fine.
No such "falling off the edge of the map" applies to Foreven and so having it be mysterious is just a problem for the Referee.
The point is that not giving GMs a tool like such a dual sector book just to satisfy a minority of GMs that have tons of free time to construct their own, especially when even a publish one would be modified by the using GMs anyways on the basis that players would read it and force GMs to use it is ludicrous. The whole argument that if mongoose publishes it GMs will have to use it is a false one used to conceal the fact that some people are afraid of change. I say that mongoose should publish it and if you want to use it great if you don’t that great too but quite telling those of us that want such a book in our tool box that we are having the wrong fun. Because in the end denying people this tool is just that telling us we are having the wrong fun.
There's also the point that creating a properly fleshed out sector is a lot of work. Mongoose has to be fairly sure it will sell - I'm not saying it won't, but it generally also has to sell better than competing products. In the meantime, continuing the tradition of Foreven as a Referee's domain costs them no development resources.
There no reason why they should expect it not to do as well as the other sector book. There’s a huge difference between a mongoose product and the very none professional versions available on Drivethrurpg most of if not all are over a decade out of date. Every product has a level of risk to it but generally a professional mongoose product is going to Trump less professionally done works. Plus I never suggested a Foreven only book all the sector books done by mongoose have been dual books either two sectors or a sector and something else like Trojan Reach is also a Aslan primer and a players supplement for PoD or like Third Imperium has the core sectors and is the third imperium source book. What I have repeatedly suggested was a Foreven & Far Frontier book I think this would make more sense than a Far Frontier book alone to support Sky Raiders.
