"'Beyond the Great Rift, beyond the Imperium and beyond the law' adequately describes both the location and the climate of those sixteen subsectors which comprise the sector known, simply, as Beyond.
Beyond lies directly coreward of the Great Rift, rimward of the Zhodani Consulate, and some 120 parsecs due spinward of Capital itself. The trailing coreward portion of Beyond is considered by some astrographers to be part of the Out-Rim Void, a relatively uncharted area concentrated in the spinward part of the adjacent trailing sector.
Located immediately spinward-rimward of the Spinward Marches. Beyond shares with it a reputation for conflict and intrigue. It is here in Beyond that the traveller will find the strongest concentration of Comsentient Alliance worlds and protectorates - as well as Asian, Droyne. Mal'Gnar, Eslyat, and Sred 'Ni settlements. Some of the latter are full-fledged members of the Alliance; some seek admission to, or at least association with, the Imperium; and some, such as the Mal'Gnar, remain aloof to the 'petty maneuverings of Humaniti and other sentients' and wish only to be left undisturbed.
Beyond consists of sixteen subsectors with a total of 463 worlds. The total population as of 335-1042 was 561 billion sentients, distributed as follows: 493.7 billion Humaniti (including less than 10 thousand Zhodani and 35.5 billion Mal'Gnar); 37.8 billion Aslan; 29.5 billion Sred'Ni and 967 thousand Droyne."
