I can't lay my hands on it now, but I seem to recall that some Classic
material - possibly since retconned out of canon - made Esalin a
condominium between the Consulate and the Imperium. It might later have
been described as more like post-1949/pre-1989 Germany (i.e., split
sovereignty between Imperium and Consulate, territorially - not a
condominium).

On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:09:09 -0700, Jim Vassilakos - jim.vassilakos at
gmail.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

>https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Esalin_(world) claims the Imperium
>established a colony on Esalin, a world with a shirt-sleeve atmosphere two
>parsecs from Jewell, in 835. Note that Jewell was settled in the early
>300s. By the time they decided to put a colony on Esalin, the Imperium had
>already fought two frontiers wars with the Zhodani right in that
>neighborhood.
>
>Given all this, isn't it safe to assume that the Zhodani had already
>colonized Jewell prior to 835? It seems obvious, doesn't it? Even though,
>as far as I can tell, the source material never mentions this.
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