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Cybus1 wrote:

I’ve always thought of those threats being pretty much everywhere, particularly Drakul and cultists since vampires wouldn’t care less where they feed as long as they are feeding and cultists have no compunctions about operating anywhere they think is best.
Redlight is more localized, mostly confined within The Crimson Wastes, but Redlight incursions might manage to slip the quarantine and make it far away.

If they are really old, and they thrive on taking from the populations of others -- they'd be concentrated to the peripheries of the oldest civilizations. The further out they go, the less they can feed or replenish their numbers with new members as there would be only the emptiness of the universe. The older a civilization is and the more expansive it's borders, the easier it is to take from without notice as such civilizations would be dealing with much larger borders than they can effectively secure and hardened fortified borders give way to collections of rapid-response fleets and units operating from networks of strong-points as power projection. While the security is more dangerous in these advanced civilizations, the day to day operations of a careful group would be safer operating against these advanced civilizations as long as they keep their threat level down to avoid being actively hunted in a massive operation.(More dangerous incidents when caught, less odds of being caught if they act smart and keep the heat low) This safety in obscurity and sheer distance would translate to further encouragement to stick with the same general targets.

Why would they abandon the tried and true to try their luck on a distant filament of the universe? (Where the opposite would be true, security is easier to deal with if detected, but would be harder to slip past undetected)