From Back Cover: Rim of Fire describes more than 400 worlds and star systems . . . Imperial, Solomani, Vegan, and rebellious. It also describes: The Solomani Confederation, and the iron-fisted SolSec that keeps the populace in line. Rules for Solomani characters and sample Solomani Confederation starships. The great clashes between the First Imperium and the Earth-bred founders of the Second, as well as between the Third Imperium and the Solomani descendants of the Second. Life on Terra, birthplace of all Humaniti . . . a shrine to the Solomani, now held by the Imperium. The Vegans and the Vegan Polity, an economic powerhouse that plays an important role in past and present Solomani Rim politics.