Three Galaxies

The Three Galaxies are a cluster of galaxies from the fictional universe of the Rifts pencil-and-paper roleplaying game by Palladium.
==Background==
The Three Galaxies are a small cluster of three galaxies, which exist within a universe where magic, technology, and super powers coexist. Within the cluster is Phase World, one of the Megaverse's primary transdimensional trading centers. The galaxies are crisscrossed by a vast network of ley lines, which are full of magical energy. Somewhere within this galactic clusters is a semi-mythical being of great power, the Cosmic Forge. Which is served by the forces of light and justice, most famously the Cosmo-Knights. 
Scheming, warring, and competing for geopolitical, military, and/or economic dominance are two intergalactic empires, various alien intelligences, a number of god-like beings, and several intergalactic megacorporations. A number of lesser interstellaer regimes and races fight to remain independent or to expand. It's threatened with annihilation or destruction by extra-galactic and extra-dimensional invaders (the Star Hives and Intruders), and two indigenous spacebound races (the Dominators and Demon Planets). Among the alien intelligences, the Dweller Beneath controls an intergalactic emprie and three Splugorths have established interstellar slave raiding empires.
Phase World is the commercial and technological center of its universe. The terminus of the cosmos' spacelanes and a megaversal nexus. One with permanent portals to thousands of worlds throughout the cosmos and to hundreds of dimensions in the Megaverse. It's a planet which is crisscrossed by a network of ley lines, source of magical power. A world that in the politics of the Three Galaxies is neutral, powerful enough to deter attack and important enough to the cosmos to have its neutrality respected.
The Three Galaxies have millions of inhabited worlds and several thousand sentient races of which over a 1000 are spacefaring. Dominating the three galaxies are two intergalactic powers, the democratic Consortium of Civilized Worlds (CCW) and the totalitarian Trans-Galactic Empire (TGE). Which have been warring with each other for centuries. Each of which has a presence in all three galaxies and controls anywhere from a fifth to half of those respective galaxies. They both possess great interstellar fleets and armies equipped with faster-than-light starships, mecha (piloted robots), directed energy weapons, and mile-long warships.
All the lesser interstellar civilizations control anywhere from a few worlds to at most a tenth of a galaxy, the one exception being the United Worlds of Warlocks which controls a fifth of its home galaxy. There are 25 trillion known sentients in the Three Galaxies, the ones counted among the carbon lifeform friendly worlds of the three major interstellar powers. It doesn't count sentients living in worlds that are not friendly to carbon lifeforms.
==Gallery==
Dweller Beneath (Palladium).jpg|Dweller Beneath
Splugorth (Palladium).jpg|Splugorth
Three_Galaxies_2,_Space_Battle_(Palladium).jpg|Space Battle
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