The Beyond Subsector E: Corella

System Data

Hex Name UWP Remarks {Ix} (Ex) [Cx] N B Z PBG W A Stellar

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0111 Nehwon D866572-4 Ag Ga Ni Lt Pr { -2 } (641+3) [8379] - - - 302 7 CoLg G4 V

0113 Al Mustan C869363-8 Lo O:0314 { -2 } (921-1) [4194] - - - 521 9 CoLg K2 V

0114 Gehenna B5487AA-A Ag Pi { 3 } (G6C+2) [7A1A] - M - 414 9 CoLg F5 V D

0116 Quatenon D8A6674-4 (Aniyun) Ni Fl Lt Tz { -3 } (851+1) [4361] - - - 212 11 CoLg M1 V

0119 Sha'anoe B863788-B Ri Tz { 3 } (B6A-2) [8A8G] - - - 713 14 CoLg M1 V

0214 Z'chmel D559614-4 Ni Lt Sa { -3 } (951-5) [6332] - - - 311 8 CoLg M0 V M7 V

0216 Dorstyal BA96847-B Pa Ph Pi { 3 } (C78-2) [CB6A] - KM - 412 11 CoLg K3 V

0218 Utopia C855311-9 Ga Lo Ho Tr Da { -1 } (721-2) [7246] - - A 510 5 CoLg G3 V M1 V

0220 Innuit CB97778-8 Ag Co Pi { 0 } (668-5) [8747] - - - 421 11 CoLg G2 V BD

0311 Trayfowen CA64549-9 Ag Ni Co Pr { 0 } (D43+1) [355A] - - - 522 10 CoLg K1 V

0312 Chicomecal D333322-8 Lo Po Ho Tz { -3 } (A21+2) [6185] - - - 324 11 CoLg M2 V M2 V

0313 Qat's Key CA54454-6 Ni Pa { -2 } (231-4) [3295] - - - 324 15 CoLg K5 V

0314 Corella A864855-D Ri Ht Pa Ph Cx { 4 } (C7C+1) [4C3D] - KM - 834 11 CoLg G2 V G8 V

0316 Liberty C4406BB-9 De Ni Po He Da Tz { -1 } (655+2) [555C] - M A 312 8 CoLg M1 V

0318 Shangra La EB66421-4 Ni Lt Pa { -3 } (231+1) [5153] - - - 515 13 CoLg K3 V M1 V

0417 Aytah A000463-D As Ni Va Ht O:0314 { 1 } (C36+4) [355F] - - - 924 13 CoLg M2 V

0511 Zeno E613000-0 Ba Ic Tz { -3 } (600+1) [0000] - - - 011 12 NaXX M1 V

0512 Tezcat D548220-7 Lo { -3 } (311-3) [511A] - - - 822 12 CoLg K4 V K9 V

0513 Chulte B310555-B Ni Sa { 1 } (D46+1) [565B] - - - 723 10 CoLg M1 V

0519 Xanadu A7675A7-C Ag Ga Ni Ht Pr { 2 } (C46+2) [671B] - K - 814 12 CoLg G4 V

0616 Kemlos B5679B8-8 (Kemlae) Hi Sa Pr { 1 } (A86-1) [6A88] - - - 513 9 CoLg M0 V

0618 Valhalla A963844-B Ri Ho Tr Ph { 4 } (A7B+4) [8C18] - KM - 622 10 CoLg G8 V

0714 Garr D8679D8-4 Ga Hi Lt Pr { -1 } (686-1) [B841] - - - 422 8 CoLg F9 V

0718 Enigma C454212-A An Lo Ho Fo { 0 } (C11-1) [1295] - V R 623 11 CoLg K2 IV

0719 Kadeth B320666-9 De Na Ni Po He Sa O:0618 { 0 } (G55+4) [764B] - - - 714 12 CoLg M4 V

0814 Azathoth B544322-A Lo { 1 } (E21+5) [1429] - - - 532 16 CoLg K3 V

0815 Siva C000721-A As Na Va Pi { 1 } (86A-1) [B868] - - - 723 13 CoLg M5 V M7 V

The Corella subsector consists of 27 systems and a population of 11.037 billion sophonts, including more than 5 billion Kemlae, the most populous non-Human race within the Corellan League. Every system in the subsector is a member of the Corellan League and the subsector includes more than 86% of the League's population and a similar proportion of its economic output. Several of the subsector's worlds have been settled for more than two and a half millennia, since the fall of the Sindalian empire, but an influx of setters from the Third Imperium has added to the population over the past 500 years. In addition to the Kemlae, the subsector is home to the Aniyun race, beetle-like denizens of the methane world Quatenon.

Governments

Corellan League

The Corellan League claims to be the second oldest continuous interstellar state of Humaniti after the Zhodani Consulate. As Article Seven of the Corellan constitution lays out the framework for an interstellar Corellan League, this claim may be technically accurate, but no other systems were settled until -1535 and the League itself has undergone many changes in membership, organization and cohesion over its theoretical 2700-year existence. At one point it encompassed worlds across half the sector and into the Vanguard Reaches and at times it was reduced to a few squabbling worlds and dependent systems. In its current state, it remains the largest government of Humaniti within the sector, stretching across 75 systems and counting 12.7 billion sentient beings as its citizens.

History

The world of Corella was settled by Sindalian dissidents in -1597. The founders were allied families of a group of Sindalian elites opposed to the concentration of power and autocratic tendencies that had transformed Sindal from a cooperative defense league into a despotic empire. The dissidents had earlier settled on worlds now controlled by the Aslan, notably Oberon, now Htoleakh, but raids by three successive Sindalian Emperors had forced the dissidents to abandon these colonies and retreat to fifty parsecs from Old Sindal. Legends claim that some among them did not think this was far enough and that distant Sindalian remnant states may still exist fifty, a hundred parsecs, or further to spinward.

For centuries, the entire sector was only sparsely settled. A dozen systems colonized by those fleeing the Sindalian Empire comprised the entire Human population outside Mal'Gnar El, and the League was the only interstellar state in The Beyond. The Kemlae joined the League almost immediately upon contact in -1531 becoming the second world after Tatiana, now Garr, to join the nascent organization.

The League's bond with member states varied over time, with all of the Sindalian colonies except Keshto and Pritchard being at least occasional members. Some of these worlds had been directly settled from those fleeing Sindal, others, like Centrum had been settled from Corella. Two crises, the first in -1237, precipitated by the secession of Centrum and Valhalla, the second by the secession of Valhalla (again) and Garrone (now Stormhaven) in -873, nearly dissolved the League. By -850, the League was little more than Corella and a few colonies and outposts.

The arrival of Aslan scouts and settlers after -800 changed that dynamic and strengthened the bonds between Human worlds in response. In -793, the Treaty of Garrone saw the return of its two powerful wayward members and strengthened the League by increasing powers of taxation and establishing the Corellan League Star Fleet.

During the millennium between -603 and 422, the League's Star Fleet launched Twelve Expeditions, campaigns to prevent or reverse Aslan expansion. The celebrated Storm Knights were at the forefront of the battle, commanding ships and surface detachments to defend or reclaim dozens of worlds, including Garonne (twice). The strains of that long period of conflict brought the League to near civil war in 420, but the crisis led to the negotiation of the Peace of Kaiear between the League and eleven Aslan clans in 422 after a conference sponsored by a lone diplomat from the Third Imperium. That treaty brought peace, but also triggered the expulsion of Storm Knights and the establishment of the splinter state of Stormhaven, as Garrone was thereafter known.

Over time, other splinter states have formed from former League members, some permanently, some temporarily in response to a diplomatic spat. Immigration from the Third Imperium changed the nature of the League as religious pilgrims arrived in the years after the Peace of Kaiear, settling some virgin worlds and intermingling with established populations on the rest. Following the early seventh century Imperial Civil War a Great Pulse of nearly ten million immigrants reached The Beyond, with nearly than half settling within the League's borders.

An initiative to strengthen the League's governmental structure led to the adoption of the Federal Constitution of 732, but within a decade, protests from both religious and libertarian groups forced its repeal, the League reverted to its decentralized confederate structure in 742. The failure of the Federalist movement led to another splinter state, with the most fervent Federalists exiling themselves to establish the Hefrin Colony.

In the following centuries, the League has experienced pressure from the expanding Eslyat in the Vanguard Reaches and allowed the secession of the Zydarian Codominium, but has otherwise continued to function mostly to the satisfaction of its diverse citizenship and fractious neighbors.

Structure

The League is a government of member worlds, not people. Each of the League's 47 full members (independent worlds with a population of at least 10,000) sends two representatives to the League Assembly. The Assembly convenes for a 90 day legislative session every standard year aboard the Capital Orbital habitat, which sits in geosynchronous orbit above Corella.

For centuries prior to the repeal of the Federal Constitution in 742, the League's members had met continuously in the Grand Assembly in the ornate Grand Assembly Hall in orbit around Centrum, a structure that has now deteriorated to become part museum and part Centrum's over-sized second-rate Highport.

But for its entire 2700 year history, Corella has always been the cultural capital of the League. The current League government is dominated by Corellan Great Houses, and the multi-world corporations known as the Consortia. Many of these Consortia are controlled by one or more Houses or and most maintain their headquarters on Corella. The influence of other powerful member worlds, most notably Valhalla, Kemlos, Lyheric, and Centrum prevent Corella from dominating League policy and these governments, Houses and Consortia often work at cross-purposes to official League policy and to each other.

Military

The Corellan League Star Fleet (CLSF) is a unified combined naval and marine force composed of contributions from the military forces of various member states, mainly Corella, Valhalla, Lyheric, and Dorstyal. Great Houses and Consortia also contribute token forces of paramilitary ships or troops to the CLSF, furthering the CLSF's fragmented force and leadership structure. Those member worlds without the technology or resources to contribute in kind, mostly the high population worlds of Kemlos and Garr, provide additional funding to support the CLSF.

In theory, the CLSF is a combined military force is directly answerable to the League Assembly, but in practical terms, a professional seven member Staff Directorate sets policy and issues orders, with contributing members influencing or interfering with deployments to varying degrees.

The quality of ships and equipment differs, with more than half the fleet adhering to Valhallan TL 11 specifications of jump-2 and 5g performance and standardized interfaces and designs. Corellan and Lyherican yards contribute more advanced TL 13 vessels to replace their still more numerous aging TL 12 ships and equipment in some fast response and heavy strike roles. No CLSF warship exceeds 100,000 tons displacement, and the majority of "major" combatants range from 1000-10,000 tons. Ground troops are mostly armored to TL 11 standards, with lightweight poly carapace armor and boarding vacc suits standard and only a few small elite units are equipped with powered armor. Lasers are the main combat weapons of all but specialized units and even among elite units, plasma weapons remain rare.

The CLSF maintains a dispersed deployment posture, operating out of eight naval bases and assigned to one of 16 numbered Task Forces, with the term "Fleet" reserved for the CLSF as a whole or in reference to independent world or private forces. In practice ships and their attached troops and support personnel patrol or garrison in temporarily assigned Task Groups of 2-20 ships.

The combined independent fleets of worlds, Houses, and Consortia are roughly as powerful as the entire CLSF. In many cases these independent fleets are not as modern, well trained, or well-maintained as their CLSF contributions, but in some fleets, a few exceptional or "showboat" vessels or troop units brashly outperform the League's assets in every way.

Local planetary defense is the responsibility of each member world. The CLSF does not maintain the number of ground and assault forces to support a major ground war and the Fleet's organization is focused on smaller combined Task Force units that do not exceed brigade size.

Relations

The Corellan League is at peace with its neighbors and emphasizes free trade and cultural exchange. This policy produces some friction with Die Weltbund's Sternhansa interstellar trade monopoly, but is manageable with trade occurring through intermediate brokers on both sides of the border. The League and Die Weltbund have coexisted for nearly one thousand years without overt conflict.

While the I'Sred!Ni Protectorate severely limits Corellan trade access to only the port and trade authority on Shalukin, The League's respect for I'Sred policy is returned by tolerance for Corellan visitors; the I'Sred provide visas to ten times as many Corellans as those from other interstellar states combined.

The Corellan League's closest trade and diplomatic partner is the Stormhaven Republic; the Republic's secession from the League is considered ancient history and continued close economic and cultural ties have remained strong for hundreds of years. A joint defense treaty strengthens the military position of both states.

Relations with other splinter states are not as warm, but with the fragmented nature of Corellan society, no one feeling applies to all Corellans or to all members of another state.

Corella maintains diplomatic and trade relations with the Florian League, but they are not significant trade partners.

The League's relations with the Third Imperium are neutral, with an exchange of ambassadors and the occasional visit of Imperial Navy and Scout Service vessels, but the Imperium has little interest in interfering with Corellan politics, even as a counterweight to Die Weltbund.

Contact with the Zhodani Consulate is mostly through the Colonnade in the Vanguard Reaches; the League's tolerance of psionics varies from world to world, but that very freedom to set local policy sits well with the small Zhodani embassy on Corella.

Finally, relations with the Aslan Hierate are complex. The Peace of Kaiear is still in force, guaranteeing borders between Human and Aslan space, but it only applies to the eleven clans that signed the treaty. While four of those clans are members of the Tlaukhu and include most of the population of Layeaukhtyei, four of the signatory clans are minor even in The Beyond and one signatory clan no longer exists. There are currently more than one hundred acknowledged clans in The Beyond and only ten are technically obligated by the treaty. Actions by minor clans and unassociated ihatei occasionally encroach into League space, but they are mostly deterred by Stormhaven forces before they reach that far.

Aliens

Kemlae

The Kemlae are a race with a complex life cycle. Native to Kemlos, a large gas giant moon in orbit around a red dwarf sun, the Kemlae have been full members of the Corellan League for most of its existence. Technically, the term Kemlae refers to multi-tentacled worm-like pupal stage that represents the sentient life phase of the Kemlae Cycle, or Keeltiru.

Physical Characteristics

A fully grown Kemlae is a purple worm 2.0-2.5 meters in length and 40-50cm in diameter with twelve tentacle appendages, six surrounding the "head" and six surrounding the "tail". The Kemlae's "head" is a tapered cylinder ending in a large circular mouth lined with plate-like "teeth". Surrounding the mouth is a ring of six eyes on short stalks interspersed with six "noses", which support respiratory, olfactory, auditory, and speech functions. The six forward tentacles reach 50-60cm in length and split into three 10cm sub-tentacles that form "fingers". The "tail" tentacles are thicker than the forward tentacles and sport stubby "toes" that end in rubbery callouses. Kemlae locomotion usually involves a fast crawl supported by three or more tail tentacles with two or more forward tentacles providing fine guidance; the remaining tentacles, forward and tail, can carry items or interact with the environment.

Kemlae vision is heavily skewed toward the infrared, with color vision being able to discern 0.5 to 12 micrometer wavelengths of light. Kemlae clothing serves a ceremonial purpose, with the long torso covered in tight bands of linens and leathers denoting rank, age, and life history. When travelling in hostile environments, a Kemlae environmental suit will mimic these patterns to tell the story of the individual's place in society. Unfortunately to human eyes, many of these colorful bands look black or brown.

Life Cycle

A Kemlae grub, or Kuru, emerges from a 10cm diameter egg and spends nearly two standard years as an unintelligent caterpillar-like creature, subsisting on rotting vegetation and biodegradable waste. Once the Kuru reaches approximately one meter in length, it molts into the pupa, or Kemlae stage, with about the intelligence of a Human or Vargr infant.

As the Kemlae stage persists, the twelve-tentacled worm matures physically and mentally, within six years reaching two meters in length and gaining enough intelligence and experience to pass a series of trials and rituals to become admitted into Kemlae society. A Kemlae can maintain itself in the pupa stage for decades by carefully managing its diet or by taking medications to control hormone levels, but before the age of fifty standard years, the urge to transform becomes too great for most individuals.

After retreating into a chrysalis for a period of 2-3 standard weeks, a ceremonial event referred to as the Kuftu ,the former Kemlae emerges transformed into a moth-like gossamer-winged creature, the Kessa, or "elder", a flying unintelligent hermaphroditic reproductive life stage. Unable to eat, the Kessa breeds, lays eggs and dies within a week, completing the Kemlae life cycle.

Evolutionary Development

The primitive Kemlae occupied different ecological niches during their different life stages. Kuru hatched and grew in deep forests and swamps, adopting an herbivorous lifestyle. After molting, the young Kemlae migrated to open plains and river valleys, becoming omnivores, hunting and gathering in packs that grew into the first primitive villages. When the urge to transform in the Kuftu became too great, the Kemlae travelled to ceremonial locations on hills or mountains near their river valley homes and within sight of the forests. The Kessa emerged to soar from the high ground, mate in the air above the forests' edge and descended into the canopy to lay their eggs in the hollows of ancient rotting trees.

As Kemlos's climate dried, the forests receded, making this cycle unsustainable. The Kemlae instead built larger villages, complete with garbage middens surrounding sculptures of the vanishing trees where the Kessa would lay their eggs and the Kuru would begin their lives under the protection of village guardians.

History and Society

Kemlae civilization persisted at an advanced agrarian level for hundreds of thousands of years and claims to be older than the Ancients. Only in the past 5000 years did civilization advance as population pressures drove the innovations that propelled the race into an industrial age. When contacted by Corellan explorers in -1531, the Kemlae numbered in the billions and had begun early exploration of space, travelling to the other moons of their gas giant primary.

Kemlae society had been unified centuries earlier. Their society was a meritocracy, with villages appointing a Lurush, or judge, who among other chieftain duties was the arbiter of who had the choice or the obligation to enter Kuftu, a ceremony that occurred as often as once every local year of forty-two standard days. The Lurush chose from among their ranks a greater Lurush to represent their region and the regional Lurush choose one from among their number to represent a province. By the time of first contact, the hierarchy of Lurush was six layers deep, with the sixth level Lurush electing one of their number to be the Supreme Lurush, who ruled the entire society for a set term. At each level, a Lurush could only serve for thirty-six local years, about four standard years. At the end of this term, unless voted to the next level, the Lurush was obligated to perform Kuftu after choosing a companion to accompany them to become their Kessa partner.

Interstellar Relations

Since contact with Corella, the Kemlae have been enthusiastic members of the League and open to interactions with other races and cultures, though few of their number actually travel off planet. Society has remained mostly static since contact, with medical treatments to control the urge to begin Kuftu being one of the few technological changes widely adopted. The Kemlae are proud of their ancient and stable society and are stubbornly resistant to any changes to their culture or life cycle. In return, they are both tolerant and interested in the cultures of other races, recognizing the differences influenced by both biology and tradition. They actively oppose attempts by one culture to rule, subvert, or modify another, though their defense of diversity extends only to societies, not individuals; they expect others to adhere to the customs of their native culture.

Kemlae Travellers

While most Kemlae remain on their homeworld their entire lives, they are a numerous people, and a small percentage of more adventurous Kemlae spend some or much of their lives among interstellar society.

Characteristics

Kemlae Travellers have the following modifiers applied to their characteristics: DEX+1, END+1, EDU-1, SOC-1.

Traits

Kemlae Travellers all possess the following traits:

Multi-limbed: All Kemlae can utilize up to three major items (weapons, tools, etc.) simultaneously and receive three sets of actions each round to operate them. However, Kemlae suffer DM-2 with all equipment not manufactured or modified for their use.

Infrared vision: Kemlae can see far into the infrared spectrum (0.5-12 μm), allowing them to discern room temperature objects in complete darkness. Conversely, Kemlae can barely distinguish green, and blue appears gray to their eyes.

Kuftu: Kemlae do not suffer aging effects but starting with the end of the seventh term (Age 36), Kemlae must roll Term+ to avoid Kuftu, which results in the character's transformation and death.

Careers

All careers from the Traveller Core Rulebook are suitable for Kemlae, however they begin their careers at age 8 and cannot serve more than eight terms total. The Kemlae Noble career is only available to the Lurush, who must have served at least four previous terms in another career and must have both EDU and SOC of at least 10. At the end of each term, a Lurush must roll 11+ to avoid Kuftu; if successful, the Lurush gains +1 SOC.

Worlds

Corella (0314 A864855-D)

The capital of the Corellan League, Corella was founded 2700 years ago by Sindalian emigres and has remained the center of Human civilization in The Beyond ever since. Corella is a rich world filled with cultural and natural landmarks, a center for both trade and travel throughout the region.

Physical Characteristics

A Terra-sized world orbiting two suns and graced with two medium-sized moons, Corella is a rich planet with a varied and robust local ecology and stunning terrain, including high mountain ranges and spectacular colored sands that blanket deserts far from the three small oceans that form the center of Corella's settled regions.

While imported species of flora and fauna dominate Human-occupied regions, more than two-thirds of the land area and one entire ocean basin are designated as parkland, devoid of permanent settlement or industrial development, making ecotourism a major draw for visitors from across the sector.

History

While Corella, founded in -1597, claims to be the oldest Human settled world in The Beyond, it was in fact settled from Oberon, since overrun by Aslan and renamed Htoleakh. Regardless, Corella is the oldest continuously inhabited Human settled world in the sector, unless one counts the Mal'Gnar, who were transplanted by the Ancients. Corella's colonizers were dissidents from the Sindalian Empire. They set up a republic that saw itself as the center of an interstellar league of like-minded worlds. Though the nature of the Corellan League has changed over a period of 2700 years and the government of Corella has become captured by special interests from the oligarchic Great Houses, who are nobles in all but title, and the Consortia, a group of multi-world conglomerates dominating League commerce, the world has maintained a fairly free, peaceful society for most of its existence.

The four major League crises of -1237, -873, 420, and 742 had little direct effect on the Corella itself. Despite the League's changes in size and form, Corella remains its cultural and political head. A greater effect on the world's society was the Vardarian Acts of -306 which codified the gradual shift in power to the Great Houses and Consortia, granting them essentially monopolistic rights to certain industries including computing, shipbuilding, power generation, robotics, and bioengineering.

Social Characteristics

With a long rich heritage and a picturesque homeworld, Corellans are a justifiably proud people, but they display that pride with a reserved confidence which contrasts with their less subtle Valhallan neighbors. Corellan society is unequal, with the rich and well-connected members of the thirty-six recognized Great Houses controlling, directly or through a proxy of the professional management class, both government and corporate functions of not just the world but much of the League. Entry into the management class is the main hope of social mobility for the majority of Corellans, as only through birth, marriage, or adoption can they hope to join a Great House. However, even the management class comprises less than 1% of the population and within it, intergenerational social mobility is as often downward as upward. The unequal distribution of wealth is offset by a strong social safety net, guaranteeing a basic income, healthcare, housing, and education to all citizens. While this social safety net is a drain on the economy, it has helped maintain a peaceful and stable society for more than 2000 years and is considered by most Corellans to be their finest achievement.

Corellan technology remains the highest in The Beyond. While not matching the sophistication of Imperial, Zhodani or Aslan science, it nevertheless provides the basis for an economy supported by the labor of robot and biological servitors. The later is somewhat controversial, as some activist consider the commercial use of force-grown clones as a form of slavery, a charge that a few even put on the use of advanced robots. However, most Corellans consider the servitor underclass a justifiable price for their own prosperity, and it places even the poorest Corellan citizen above the bottom of the social hierarchy.

Garr (0714 D8679D8-4)

Home to more than half the human population of the Corellan League, the world of Garr has had a long and complex history. In present times, it is dominated by the Revelationist Congregation, an offshoot of the Jerimiahan Church, which eschews unnecessary technology and conversation in favor of devout service and large families.

Physical Characteristics

Garr is the most similar to Terra of any world in the Corellan League. A temperate climate, standard atmosphere and six continental landmasses offer a variety of ecosystems well suited for habitation and agriculture. A single large moon crowns its resemblance to Terra, reinforcing the Revelationist view that Garr is the promised "New Earth" awaiting the return of God's Child.

History

Originally settled from Corella in -1535 and named Tatiana, it was the first member world to join the Corellan League. Tatiana prospered as an agricultural world for centuries, eventually establishing a stable society supporting a population of tens of millions and interstellar levels of technology.

The Sack of Garrone (-402) during the Fourth Expedition brought a wave of refugees to Tatiana. Though their homeworld was recaptured in the Fifth Expedition, by then a generation of refugees had been born and grown to adulthood on their adopted home. Within a century, the new immigrants outnumbered the natives, and after Garrone fell again in -269 during the Sixth Expedition, the newcomers, who had come to dominate the government, proclaimed their world New Garrone.

Resentment by the original Tatianan population nearly led to civil war, but instead, the Tatianans took revenge by allowing the settlement of refugees from a religious schism on Jeremiah. The Jerimiahan Revelationist Congregation started arriving in 705. The Revelationists emphasized large families and curt speech, and within two centuries, they had become the largest population on the planet. By 954, memories of old Garrone, long since renamed Stormhaven and independent from the League, had faded and the High Council of Prophets had acquired more power than the secular Republic, therefore only a small minority objected with the High Council renamed the world to the monosyllabic Garr.

The Revelationists saw little need for advanced machinery on a planet so well suited to humanity, and in a series of proclamations, encouraged technology to fade away. As machinery failed, many descendants of the Tatianan and Garronese emigrated to other worlds, but many more converted to the new faith. By 1100, the population of Garr reached four billion people, straining what the low technological base could support, even on an ideal garden world. But the Revelationists are more concerned with the coming "God's Breath", or "Rupture of the Universe" in the standard Jerimiahan vernacular, than such worldly matters.

Social Characteristics

The Revelationist Congregation dominates all aspects of Garran life. All residents are baptized into the church after confirmation and those who leave the church, or who are disqualified from membership because of alien or even non-Solomani heritage, are expelled from the world or imprisoned in camps until some refugee organization agrees to transport them.

The Revelationist believe that the Child (they do not use a name or specify gender) will return to the flock on Garr when the "God's Breath", defined roughly as a radical change in the expansion rate of the cosmos, is imminent. At that time, only the Chosen "Ones" will survive on the only world protected from the Rupture. As a result, the Revelationists emphasize a large population and a low reliance on any technology that will become unavailable when the rest of the cosmos dissolves. The origin of the practice of curt speech is unknown and unexplained, but it is prevalent throughout society: "Not two words when one is clear; not two syllables when one is fine" or as a more strict Revelationist would say: "Just one word; just one sound."

Visitors to Garr are not forced to join the Congregation unless they intend to stay, but they are shunned by members of the Congregation and not encouraged to linger. Trade is minimal, with importation medicine and export of handcrafted items being the mainstay of the sporadic economic exchange.

Kemlos (0616 B5679B8-8)

The world of Kemlos is a large moon of a gas giant in orbit around a red dwarf sun. Home of the Kemlae, the world has been a member of the Corellan League since first contact in -1531. It is the homeworld of the largest population within the League. Kemlaen society is static, relying on a hierarchical meritocracy that has brought both stability and the advantages of a technological society. While active members of the League, the Kemlae are non-interventionist and most members of the race are friendly, but uninterested in travel beyond their world. Trade is limited to medical technologies and entertainment systems, with traditional Kemlaen infrastructure providing the basis of a pre-stellar economy.

Quatenon (0116 D8A6674-4)

Homeworld of beetle-like Aniyun, Quatenon is a tidally locked world in orbit around an M1 V primary. The planet's nitrogen-methane atmosphere covers the entire planet in an orange hydrocarbon haze and provides temperate conditions despite being outside the standard habitable zone. The planet and its inhabitants were surveyed by the Corellans early in their history and peaceful contact has persisted throughout the League's existence. In theory, Quatenon is a member of the League, but its inhabitants are happy with their basic industrial "steam age" civilization and see little reason to advance or to travel beyond their skies. Civilization on Quatenon consists of dozens of city-states which have maintained a consistent culture for thousands of years. Visitors are welcome to the world, but trade is minimal, as the Aniyun believe they have what they need to be happy.

Valhalla (0618 A963844-B)

The world of Valhalla has the highest standard of living and largest economy in the Corellan League. Settled from the Sindalian Empire in -1407, Valhalla joined the fledgling Corellan League in -1398, but has seceded twice and threatened secession many more times, often precipitating a crisis within the League. Valhalla is a warm world with vast interior deserts. Its population is centered near the shores and on the islands of its two oceans. A strong democratic and pro-business tradition has persisted throughout the world's long history, though significant ecological protections have limited growth and industrialization on the surface. While not possessing the highest technology in the League, Valhallans pride themselves as being the freest and most prosperous people of the Sector, though technically, neither is true: Bundestag is richer per capita, and many worlds are freer and more advanced, even within the League. As a result, Valhallans are often seen as self-important braggarts by their neighbors.

Utopia (0218 C855311-9)

The origin of the name of the world Utopia is assumed to be ironic, but at first glance, the tropical world appears pleasant enough. Well-placed continents moderate the temperatures and limit desertification, providing much of the world with a climate of warm savannahs and rainforests. Unfortunately, the large diverse ecology has led to the evolution of ravenous predators and novel pathogens, both hazardous to human life. Two failed colonization attempts, one in pre-Imperial times and another in the ninth century, have left the planet off-limits to all but scientists and thrill-seeking adventurers. A small orbital starport is operated by the Geographos Foundation of Valhalla. It houses most of the world's permanent residents and sponsors scientific and hunting expeditions to the surface, once visitors have signed all the necessary waivers.

Ships

Excelsior Mark II Racing Yacht

The Excelsior Mark II is a ship built with a single purpose: winning the Navarre Rally, an annual seven jump race between Corella and Navarre. Designed by the famed Heraklion Yard for Milo Van Ulrik of House Ulrik, it is a state-of-the-art replacement for the original Excelsior, owned by Milo's father Rupert Van Ulrik and lost in 1087 after a presumed misjump from 12 diameters above Hilkiah, Jeremiah's gas giant.

Completed in 1093, Excelsior II, as it is commonly known, defeated its nearest rival by nearly three full days in its first Navarre Rally in 1095, utilizing a combination of fast drives, rapid atmospheric transits, fast fuel refining, and custom tuned jump drives. While Milo has not repeated his father's rashness of jumping far too close to a planet with only partially refined fuel, he has used every technological advantage and an expert crew to win six of the seven rallies in which he competed, only prevented from a perfect record by maintenance problems in 1102. Despite its focus on performance, Excelsior II is among the most luxurious small yachts out of Corella. Rumors that Milo has employed his ship for smuggling are entirely unsubstantiated.