The Hanseatic League is a trade union beyond the rimwards boarder of the charted space. The first settlers on Bremen had been exiles from the Lyran Alliance. Bremen soon became the homeport of a fleet of spaceships acting as couriers and traders for an sphere of three hundred light years. In 2891 the starports around Bremen allied under the name Hanseatic League. In 3011 the League declared Bremen, Lübeck and and Bergen as open trade worlds accessable to every trader, while the fleets of the League successfully denied exploration and trade to other worlds under their control.