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Colonizing any world is a difficult thing, but a border world holds special challenges. Del'lyn lies between the edge of the Tarthian Empire and a region of space called "The Colonies of Man". Inside these colonies are a few separatist planets such as Independence, Ust, Blythe, Coty, Tel Gojor, Fiyez and Affiyar. Tanath, Kanadar and Bombyx are three such worlds ruled by "The Warmakers", a loosely unified group of pirates. There are other large clusters of worlds united under various kinds of rulers.
The Colonies of Man stretch from the border of the Tarthian Empire
all the way to the Disputed Borderlands of the Dark Star Realm and the Fells of Lindisfarne (shown on common maps as DBDSRFL). Pirate raids are less frequent the closer one gets to the Terran Crescent, but on the Tarthian Empire side of the colonies, pirates often operate with impunity.
Most vicious of all pirates are the slavers of the Sargassan Detaat. They attack in lightning quick Skinraider ships equipped with high tech "nets" capable of scooping up human beings. The slaves taken by them are sold as far away as Seamrog, a border world near the Worlds of Wings, on the farthest reaches of the galaxy. The Detaat slavers' frequent attacks on Del'lyn left the inhabitants fearful of the open sky until the planet was discovered by the Droid Discovery Force of Her Majesty Rheyn Destoiya in 4667 tradestandard. Del'lyn is now being settled by reassigned Tarthian citizens and colonized in order to bring a profit from the planet's previously untapped natural resources.
Piracy in the Tarthian Empire is punishable by death. Once convicted, there is no process of appeal for a pirate.
