Organisation of the Sordlands
The Sordlands is composed of hundreds of systems at the periphery of the Imperium. As their old name suggests (“the Trashlands”), they were used as a dumping ground of unwanted things.
Only in seventeen planets did the original Trash People survive in. These planets are called
Epprunárlijorðí (“Original Planets”). The Trash People’s high fertility enabled them to expand quickly to neighbouring systems.
The Sordlands currently encompass fifty-two sectors, composed of 7 to 25 systems in each sector. All sectors are inhabited, but not all systems have inhabited planets. All systems, however, are garrisoned.
Sectors (þátturí)
Sectors (equivalent to a hex) are led by a
þátturáherr (“Sector-Lord”). All sector lords are appointed by the Margrave and are almost always a member of House 1205.
Þátturáherrí are answerable to the Margrave and represent the margrave’s government in the sector.
Each sector has a an advisory council called a
þáttursráð, which is presided over by the
þátturáherr. The council consists of the leaders of all the systems within the sector.
The first six sectors where the
Epprunárlijorðí were located were numbered 0-5. Ruslsorp, for instance, is located in Sector 0. The next four sectors settled by the Sordics, and the descendants of Rhodes and his associates were numbered 6-9. However, the eleventh sector onwards are given names based on the Sordlandic alphabet. Thus, Sector 11 is commonly referred to as Sector ᚠ/Sector Fé; Sector 12 is known as Sector ᚢ /Sector Úr, and so on.
ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲᚷᚹᚺᚿᛁᛃᛇᛈᛜᛋᛏᛒᛖᛗᛚᛝᛟᛞᛦᚵᛅᚧᚻᚯᚴᛂᚡᚮᚼᚤᛍᛪᛘᛊᛑᚾᛩᛔᚥᛐᛆ
the Sordlandic Alphabet.
Systems (Kerðí)
Each sector has multiple systems, based on a single star system including all its planets, moons, and satellites. Each system is governed by a
kerðáherr (“System-Lord”), the equivalent of a Sol-Baron.
Kerðáherri are elected from an electoral college of leaders from each of the inhabited celestial bodies within the system, and from the system’s garrison and industry.
Within each sector, the systems are named based on the Sordlandic alphabet: either based on the first settled system (for sectors 0-4), or the first discovered system (for the other sectors). Thus, Sector 0, which has eleven systems, have systems called 0ᚠ “Zero-Fé” to 0ᛁ “Zero-Iss”.
Planets (Jörðí) and Satellites (Tunglí)
Inhabited planets and satellites (inhabitable or terraformed) are led by a
jorðáherr (“Planet-Lord”). The Sordlands does not make a differentiation between the lord of a planet (Mund-Baron in Imperial parlance) and the lord of a satellite (Lund-Baron in Imperial parlance), unless one’s celestial body is subordinate to another. For example,
Hraustur (ᚦᚱ-2) and
Þrål (ᚦᚱ-4.3) are both inhabited celestial bordies within Sector Þurs, System Reið.
Hraustur is a planet and
Þrål is a satellite, but since neither of which are directly dependent on each other, they are governed by separate
jorðáherrí. Conversely,
Tér (1ᚠ-3) and
Mán (1ᚠ-3.1) are both inhabited bodies within Sector 1, System Fé (System 1). However, since
Mán is dependent on
Tér, the
jorðáherr of
Tér also exerts control over
Mán, and
Mán’s leader is not titled
jorðáherr.
All planets are numbered from the main sun outwards. Thus the planet nearest to the main star is numbered 1, the next is numbered 2, and so on. Satellites are numbered in order from the one orbiting closest to the planet outwards.
Naming Conventions
Many planets have names, but the Sordics have a naming convention for the planets so that it would be easy to identify them. The general format is XX-#.#. The first character refers to the Sector the body is in. The second character refers to the System the body is in. The third character, a digit, refers to the planet or planetary system the body is in. The last character, where applicable, represents the satellite, separated by a dot.
So for example, the planet
Tímabil is indicated as ᚱᛒ-7, as it is located in the Reið Sector (Sector 15), Björk System. It is the seventh planet from its star. Its also-inhabited satellite
Nýtttímabil is indicated as ᚱᛒ-7.1, as it is the first moon from the planet.
List of Planets