The Andromeda Galaxy

Around the year 6435, the descendants of the original mappers of The Milky Way living in the New Sol system decided to restore their family's names by mapping another galaxy. Triangulum and Andromeda were chosen as candidates, but Andromeda made it through the decision making process due to its relative closeness and greater size. They preferred the challenge of a larger galaxy. 
Retrieving the designs of the probe used on the milky way and producing nearly 20 times the amount almost bankrupted the twins, and were only barely able to afford the fuel for them to be sent to Andromeda. 
When revealing their plans, they were met with ridicule from the government of the Solar Alliance and the HSG, but smaller independent systems like Shinkyo supported their project, and funded it as long as it took. 
The probes were returned within 5 years, as opposed to 500 during the original Atlas Project. This was due in part to vastly improved JumpDrive technology and a larger amount of probes. In early 6445, the above map was compiled, confirming ancient suspicions of its width of nearly 220,000 light years and containing nearly 1,000,000,000,000 stars. 
It was found to be far messier (pun intended) than the Milky Way was, like another galaxy had passed through it, destroying its spiral structure. Its southern arm still maintains some of it, but the core and north arm have been devastated. 
== Important Locations ==
The map displayed a resolution nearly half that of the Milky Way, only 12,600 light years per sector as opposed to 5,900. 
After the mapping, it was realized that the galaxy had not one supermassive black hole, but two.
* Andromeda A* in J8, the primary black hole of the galaxy. 
* Andromeda B* in K8, the secondary black hole, nearly one-third the mass of the primary.
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