Or do we naturally use the Foreven that GypsyComet and others have embellished for us?
Robject,
Let me vote against the Foreven found at zho.berka and other sites.
My primary complaint with this pseudo-canonical Foreven has to do with the size of a Zhodani client state called the Avalar Consulate.
I have no problems with Zhodani client states in Foreven and I have no problems with multi-system Zho client states either. What I do have a problem with is a large Zho client state that controls nearly all of four subsectors. It's twice the size of the Swords and Darrians combined, it's one subsector away from the Five Sisters, and yet it's never been involved in any of the Frontier Wars?
A state that size should have had some small effect on the Imperium and it should have had a major effect on the Darrians. Naturally, real canon has no mention of it. However, the creators of our pseudo-canonical Foreven should have taken care to see that the Avalar Consulate "fit" into previously published materials. They did not, their creation is too big, and that's why their version of Foreven should be ignored.
(And how much freedom is it, when the borders are already drawn anyway?)
It isn't any freedom at all and, when you consider the problem I mentioned above, the pseudo-canonical Foreven we do have is badly broken.
Well, I could blather on and complain some more, or I can keep asking for suggestions and set things up the way I like.
Blather and complain away. Han's map is a good start. None of the polities in it are large and/or close enough to have effected the Marches enough to have been noticed, therefore they "fit".
Have fun,
Bill
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