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Beyond Sector
This sector is know as Lerlairlaii to the Aslan Hierate.
Beyond lies directly coreward of the Great Rift, rimward of the Zhodani Consulate, and some 120 parsecs due spinward of Capital, itself. The trailing coreward portion of Beyond is considered by some astrographers to be part of the Outrim Void, a relatively uncharted area concentrated in the spinward part of the adjacent trailing sector.
Located immediately spinward-rimward of the Spinward Marches, Beyond shares with it a reputation for conflict and intrigue. It is here in Beyond that the traveller will find the strongest concentration of Comsentient Alliance worlds and protectorates--as well as Aslan, Droyne, Mal'Gnar, Eslyat and Sred*Ni settlements. Some of the latter are full-fledged members of the Alliance; some seek admission to, or at least association with, the Imperium; and some, such as the Mal'Gnar, remain aloof to the petty maneuverings og Humaniti and other sentients" and wish only to be left undisturbed.
Beyond consists of sixteen subsectors with a total of 463 worlds. The total population as of 335-1042 was 561 billion sentients, distributed as follows: 493.7 billion Humaniti (including less than 10 thousand Zhodani and 35.5 billion Mal'Gnar); 37.8 billion Aslan; 29.5 billion Sred*Ni; and 967 thousand Droyne.
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[edit] History
Beyond Sector was for most of its history a distant backwater. Located far behind the Great Rift on the opposite side of both the Ziru Sirka and the Rule of Man, no serious settlement was attempted until the Long Night. Solomani colonists fleeing hardship and chaos made their way across the Great Rift in a number of waves between -800 and -150, waves that included the seeds for the later Darrian and Sword World nations.
It was settled in four great waves: Nakris, Corellian, Garronean and Meizirnian. After the rise of the Third Imperium, two more waves, Florian and Marrekeshite, added their numbers to the sector’s already diverse population. And in the 500s, Aslan Ihatei began settling the trail-rim corner of the sector. Despite its rich worlds and untapped resources, the sector was still rather isolated from the Imperial or Zhodani mainstreams, and most of the settlers had to rely upon their own devices for development. Only with the Aslan Ihatei invasions of the pre-Collapse period, and the Spinward Accords, did Beyond become even marginally important to the rest of Charted Space.
Traditionally, the states of Beyond were non-aligned in the Imperium-Consulate conflict. Privately most of the sectors Solomani descended inhabitants loathed the Zhodani, and often attacked Consulate shipping out of their own volition. The Imperium was respected but irrelevant to the political situation of the sector. The Aslan were either feared or respected, or both, as the local clans were (and still are) divided into warring factions most of the time.
The main powers in the Sector are the Corellian League and the Federation of Garrone, two states that have clashed for centuries for political dominance over the sector, and the Aslan, who make up a trifecta of conflict and intrigue. The Regency is a distant power, whose main role is in keeping these powers from restarting their disastrous Pre-Collapse war that left much of the rimward part of the sector a ruin in places.
