SASHRAKUSHA

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Sashrakusha Subsector: Sashrakusha Subsector has an estimated population in 1202 of approximately 2.45 billion, a decline of 76% from its PreCollapse population. Its highest population is 823 million at Nart-roft, and its highest tech level is 7 at Umaraag, Tant, Radical, Sepstar, Yull-jettii and Idanchy. The subsector had an estimated population in 1117 of approximately 10.14 billion. Its highest population was 7.37 billion at Kanorb, and its highest tech level was 15 at Sumeszu and Palama.

Subsector Notes:

Before the Collapse, the IISS base at Umaraag (2631) had begun legal proceedings against the Naval base at Sumeszu (2632). Naval medics from nearby Umaraag took 120 chirpers for research purposes from a reserve on Umaraag, where chirpers comprise over 60% of the population. Scout personnel maintained that such action violated the laws protecting the reservation and the chirper's right to live unmolested. Initial ruling in 1114 favored the Navy, and the Scouts subsequently appealed the decision. The policies of the "real Strephon," favoring equal treatment of both natural and artificial sophonts, offered a new source of hope for the IISS. Unfortunately, the onset of the Collapse made the argument a moot point.

Kanorb (2733) has a long history of settlement and fractious politics. Kanorb was a stronghold of Vilani noble houses in the First Imperium; it withdrew from interstellar commerce early in the Rule of Man period. When the Solomani attempted to re-integrate Kanorb by force, the population put up fierce resistance. The Solomani Navy was so overtaxed by the vastness of the Second Imperium that they were never able to muster enough force to fight a conclusive battle with Kanorb. After the Rule of Man fell, several of the Vilani Lords began quarrelling with each other, no longer having a common cause to unite them. The world disintegrated into dozens of squabbling nations in the Long Night. The Third Imperium first re-established trade relations with the nation Eshlepur, on the northern continent. Most of the major powers had resumed interstellar trade before the Collapse, acting independently under sometimes contradictory agreements. Smaller nations had grouped themselves into spheres of influence around superpowers who possessed starports. Languages have diverged sharply from the original Vilani; some fifty dialects are now spoken on the planet. The onslaught of Virus was not kind to Kanorb, whose many competing starports and docked ships were hit hard by Viral infection. Subsequent attacks on the population left no nation untouched and many completely destroyed. The surviving population of the planet live in remote areas, further establishing the fractious character of Kanorb.

The people of Igudi (2836) abandoned most technology during the Long Night. Its climate is quite hospitable to humans, and the inhabitants grew to prefer an essentially pastoral existence. Certain native animals have been domesticated for food and wool. The populace had shown very little inclination to technological advancement since its recontact by the Third Imperium in the first century. Interstellar merchants occasionally visited the world to trade with the locals until the Collapse occurred. Those few comforts of interstellar trade enjoyed by the natives were then lost, and the minimal starport facilities abandoned. In the early days of the Collapse, several Doomslayer-strain Virus ships either intentionally crash-landed on the planet, or unloaded their ordinance into several habitations, lowering the population considerably. In the intervening decades, the Igudans have recovered most of the lost population. Vampire Fleets have, on occasion, raided Igudi for human slave labor, but for the most part, the system is left alone.

On Cafad (3135) a low-tech human population was discovered. The Vilani efforts to integrate the Cafadi humans into their Grand Imperium progressed slowly. The world relapsed into barbarism at the onset of the Long Night. After centuries of contact with the Third Imperium, Cafad had started to re-embrace technology. With the onset of Virus and the Collapse, the Cafadi leaders are now convinced that the Old Ways should be reembraced and technology is once again shunned. The Cafadi are extremely xenophobic and look upon any item of high technology as extremely taboo.

The Corridor sector was first entered at the world Sharkagu (3235) by ships of the Sharurshid merchant company out of Sakin (Vland: 0135). Sharkagu, only 1 jump away, strongly resembled Sakin and the colony there had maintained close relations with the mother planet throughout its history; indeed, it never requested independence throughout the Long Night, and remained a Sakin colony until the Collapse rendered interstellar travel obsolete in the region.

Palama (3240) was colonized only recently before the Collapse, because its resources were not detected until a tech level 15 density survey was made. Its dense, tainted atmosphere made it unattractive to ordinary colonists. The world is a primary target for exploitation by the eager colonists of the Regency.