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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Baobab Astrography draws on the experiences of the months-long Gossamer expedition. This book offers explorers the necessary tools to survive and establish a foothold in Companion Besh. Known as Firefist to the local Nagai, the companion galaxy is 150,000 light-years away from the main galaxy. Voyagers can access it by traveling on the Nagai Trade Spine, but reaching Companion Besh is only the beginning.
The book provides a loose cultural, technological, and territorial overview of the following local powers, about which much remains unknown:
- Intent: A book.
- Image Source: N/A
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Baobab Astrography
- Affiliation: Members of the Outer Rim Coalition and the Underground, and crewers on the Gossamer expedition; Closed Market otherwise.
- Model: Deep Black Sea: The Companion Besh Survival Guide
- Modularity: You can write in the margins.
- Production: Minor
- Material: Spacer's leather, flimsiplast
- Star maps and observations of regions in Companion Besh, with material on their inhabitants, resources, and local conditions.
- The first semi-publicly-available guide to exploring and doing business in Companion Besh/Firefist.
- Not vulnerable to mildew or edible by pests
- Routes and political information (e.g. local balances of power) may become obsolete, in whole or in part.
- Hard-copy two-dimensional star maps can only approximate relationships between solar systems and regions.
- Much of the information about the local civilizations is fragmentary or secondhand, and many gaps remain.
Baobab Astrography draws on the experiences of the months-long Gossamer expedition. This book offers explorers the necessary tools to survive and establish a foothold in Companion Besh. Known as Firefist to the local Nagai, the companion galaxy is 150,000 light-years away from the main galaxy. Voyagers can access it by traveling on the Nagai Trade Spine, but reaching Companion Besh is only the beginning.
The book provides a loose cultural, technological, and territorial overview of the following local powers, about which much remains unknown:
- Tof Kingdom - Tall, strong, greenish near-humans, martial culture.
- Nagai - Pale near-humans, honor-based culture, fluent in Basic; ancestral enemies of the Tofs.
- Maccabree - Squid-like cyborgs who live in vaguely humanoid mechanical suits; ancestral allies of the Nagai.
- Faruun - Mysterious but talented shipwrights; ancestral allies of the Nagai.
- Sharuka - Blue-gray near-humans, elitist semi-xenophobic culture, totally incompatible technology, no knowledge of Basic.
