Well, I just lent out my copies of the _Ref's Manual_ and _Encyclopedia_,
so I can't give you the "Official" answer, Anthony. However, take a
look at the following two facts:
The page on 71 of the _Players' Manual_ has a diagram indicating, roughly,
what is meant by Coreward, Rimward, etc. Since the diagrams in Cats &
Rats and Dogs & Cogs always indicated the direction of the Vargr Extents
as Coreward (as does the Ref Manual), I think I'm safe in saying that
the Core sector is just the Imperial Core, and that the Zhodani are
heading towards the Galactic Core, which is "Up" off the large scale
sector maps we've seen.
If we think about it in terms of astronomy, the picture is even clearer:
The Earth (Terra/Solomani Rim) sits, very roughly, about 2/3 of the way
from the galactic core to the rim in real life. The galactic core is
about 10,000 parsecs from the Earth. Traveller Sectors are 40x32
parsecs and Coreward is along the long axis of a sector, so we can say that
there's about 250 sectors in between the Solomani Rim and the Galactic
Core.
Dane
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"I'm not a real Scientist, but I play one in an RPG."
(Be warned that the above numbers are *exceedingly* rough)