IMTU, but it's where 50% of the action happens:
Jacine Subsector Notes:
Jacine is primarily mining and heavy industry. The Colonial Fleet presence lessens as you get closer to the Kuklakan border, but this is also the closest point between the Askorrian and Terran Empires. The Terran Empire has a vested interest in maintaining the traffic from the "Pixie Run" because of the enormous trade in mined ores which travel up and down the run, with Pixie being the heaviest industry in the subsector: there the ores are processed and transshipped to the Veldt Subsector, or into the Empire. Norge-Gammon Armaments (as a megacorp it does more than just weapons) holds an Imperial Charter (like Cimmerron does) for trade into and out of the Empire, and specializes in heavy metals and rare earths.
The constant, heavy traffic up and down the run is done by everything from Free/Frontier Traders up to 5000 ton Colonial Bulk Carriers.
Jacine also has the Belmont Compact; two rich, paradisaical resort worlds that were annexed by the Askorrians during the war as concentration points for prisoners of war and those caught behind the lines during the initial run for Grendel. Now the two former Terran Confederation colonies are back in business under the auspices of the Belmont Consortium; a group of investors (and some say war -profiteers) who purchased the worlds.
On the border of the Kuklakan subsector is Westmark and Lupus. Lupus is the only Prox-majority colony world outside Kuklakan, Harlequin, and the Homeworlds subsectors. The human population is restricted to the starport area and is largely technical / education services personnel on contract to the Prox clans currently in charge. Rim fleet ships frequently put into Lupus for "resupply" and keep an eye on the movements of Prox ships and mercenary units.
Westmark is the gateway to the Kuklakan, Fijord, and Harlequin subsectors. It is called the edge of civilization and the Colonial Fleet base there is considered the worst, most dangerous posting on the hind-end of the universe. No less than 4 Ushakov-class Battlecruisers and 2 Shenandoah-class Carriers are there, in addition to 3 Colonial Marine Assault Carriers. Sometimes His Majesty's ships have been known to arrive at Westmark on a "goodwill cruise".
They not only keep watch for any Prox raids that might head into the subsector by way of Cathay and Westmark to loot the worlds along the southern edge, but also the occasional Space Viking raid. Since the war, the lower reaches have become increasingly technology poor so the Vikings have been forced to range farther than the Fijord subsector to maintain their tech levels. The merchant houses that used to run long-liners down into Kuklakan to supply the Terran colonies there have cut back considerably on routes due to increasing predation by the Prox from Harlequin, and the Vikings from Fijord. Now ships go that way only under heavy escort, or at least heavily armed.
The Blauvelt Cluster is where the war started. All three worlds are red zones due to the radiation and chem/biowar agents persisting there. Per the Treaty of Jagranath both the Askorrian and Terrans can patrol there for security interdiction. The Colonial Fleet has ships based at Vantage, which is at least barely habitable. The Battlecruisers HMS Hannibal and Ushakov are based there, along with the destroyers HMS Ranger, Apache, Hussar, and Voltigeur. Assorted small craft assist. The Askorrians send ships out of Makaar, usually 5000ton Bandahar-class (TL-14) Light Frigates escorted by lighter craft.
