The Empty Quarter

Dargurd

Mongoose
Hi All,

A question for all those with many more years knowledge of Traveller than I have. Has the Empty Quarter of the Imperium ever had any source data produced for it ? e.g. in books or magazines ? Ive found some websites with some good info but call me 'old fashioned' i like to get my hands on books if i can.

Any ideas ?

Also is there any sector (highly unlikely i know) that has seen pretty much no published works ?
 
The Empty Quarter has been covered fairly comprehensively in the Stellar Reaches fanzine: http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/issues/

There are subsector details, adventures and other data.

You can also find more info in the Traveller Wikia: http://traveller.wikia.com/wiki/Empty_Quarter_Sector

As to subsectors that are pretty much unpublished (other than Atlas of the Imperium, obviously) check out: http://traveller.wikia.com/wiki/Sector - Fornast, Antares, Lishun & Diaspora look like strong possibilities. Only two subsectors of Zarushgar were covered in Traveller's Digest I think, so most of that is still open.

I've been slowly statting up Daibei for my own pleasure, but it's also pretty open as far as I can find out.

Good luck.
 
Elrick said:
As to subsectors that are pretty much unpublished (other than Atlas of the Imperium, obviously) check out: http://traveller.wikia.com/wiki/Sector - Fornast, Antares, Lishun & Diaspora look like strong possibilities. Only two subsectors of Zarushgar were covered in Traveller's Digest I think, so most of that is still open.

I've been slowly statting up Daibei for my own pleasure, but it's also pretty open as far as I can find out.

Diaspora got a late MegaTraveller book for the whole sector.
Lishun and Antares were developed extensively by a couple members of the Working Group back then, but that work only manifested in the big maps of the Imperium, the occasional TAS News item, and a bit of Lishun in the adventure Burning Eye.
Fornast has not been visited in print at any but the most basic level.
Daibei was one of the "lost" sectors. There is a generally accepted dataset for it now (in the Wiki and elsewhere) but the original data used to generate the old Atlas map is gone.
 
+1 for Stellar Reaches. My ATU from a few years ago was based in a randomly generated quadrant immediately trailing of Flynn's Empty Quarter (actually it was the first two 'columns' of the neighboring sector). But IIRC Flynn's work was set in Imperial 993, which is 112 years before the current MGT Third Imperium setting. I seem to remember advancing some timelines but the bigger picture was based on the Stellar Reaches material.

It was a fun campaign. I don't have the article to hand but there was one about a religious sect captivated by a nebula that I thought was particularly good and led to a couple great adventures. I'll try to find it and post a link to that issue. But all the issues are great resources for that region of Charted Space.
 
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