Editing Stars Without Number: Back in Black (section)

=== Known Alien Races ===

The map of the state that you guys have is not a complete sector map.* There are a number of other star systems known to the State, but the locations of those other worlds and especially the charts to get to them are not made public.

My rule on sectors is that they are sort of self-contained areas of metadimensional space. As I've mentioned before, you can drill from any system in a sector to any other system within range, if you're willing to make the roll to try and navigate it. However, sectors only connect to other sectors at defined points. The State's sector has connections to six other sectors, but Tenebrous is the only connecting system that is publicly available. That is, the other systems that you could use to jump off to another sector are all classified. Part of this is to firewall off contact with alien civilizations until humanity is in a stronger position.

There are two known alien civilizations that could present a problem. One is sort of "northwest" on the sector map (Reynard can't get jump routes or anything) and is apparently a machine civilization. They're non-communicative but probably hegemonic. They have technology that's probably about equivalent to human tech, but don't seem to deploy it as well. They aren't well-understood, but every now and again some of their seed-ships come through and try to colonize the quarantine system, and the State burns them out. It's a holding action. Attempts to explore their space have not gone well, and nobody in the government or the navy wants to pour more resources into the problem unless they have to. They're code-named Daedalus.

The other civilization is toward the "east." They're actually a warlike alien civilization, at a low TL4. There's effectively a secret cold war going on, with both sides trying to puff up, seem stronger than they are, and show off their best tech. The average citizen in their civilization knows of the State's existence. The average citizen of the State is kept deliberately in the dark about their existence. They're code-named Jotun.

==== Chittik Vessels ====

[[Chittik Troops]]

[[Chittik Spacecraft]]

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?717974-Stars-Without-Number-Volume-II-Space-Oddity&p=17908385#post17908385 Eris Delan research into Chittik Vessels] (outdated, for historical reference only)

==== Chittik Interrogation on Thalassa ====

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?724403-Stars-Without-Number-Volume-III-Lost-in-Space&p=18142323#post18142323 Jackson ship/computer survey]

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?724403-Stars-Without-Number-Volume-III-Lost-in-Space&p=18142452#post18142452 Eris psychic interrogation]