The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden (Also known as 'The Eve', 'The Garden', and just 'Eden') is the current name of the Galactic Cluster formerly known as The Milky Way Galaxy. In the modern day, Eden consists of four primary Megaspans, each harboring their own collection of Sectors, Systems, Planets, and Locations (Points of Interest), of which accumulatively house every soul passing through the Starscape.

The Four recognized Mega-Sectors are as follows.

**The Throne (Civil Space)**, sometimes known as Elysium by those that reside outside of it's comforting embrace, is closest to the Eye of Eve, and as such, often considered the 'Center' of Eden. Although it makes up very little of the overall galactic space, with comparatively even less of the population, **Civ-Space**, remains at the forefront of many many technologies and social standards, such education and wide-spread medical services. It also houses the **Cathedral of Economics**, location solely founded upon the last known **Antediluvian Arch-Intelligences**, birther and replicator of the **Ether-Chit**.

The Throne is often seen as an uncrackable force of almost otherworldly military capability, almost entirely in thanks to **The Protectorate**. The Protectorate is the overaching essence the keeps the Civility in Civ-Space, and everything unsavory out. Criminal Activity is intolerable. Failure is criminal. The Protectorate enforces these two tenates religiously.

**The Gray (Unprotected Civil Space)** houses a large majority of traditional Residential, Production, and Industry Planets within the Garden, all of which maintain various levels of technology, civility, and social progression. Cultures between these colonies spread between countless ages and creep in from all corners of the Sprawl, often clashing, and blending to create anew. Some of these planets bound by thousands of years of struggle,- others, born under only tens of respite, each both plagued with the pains of tomorrow, and equally determined to make it through.

With a few outliers, these planets sway from pre-industrial Steam-Reliant civilizations, to Post-Industrial Mega-Corp owned Population Centers, all with their own governing forces, conflicts, and

**The Frontier (Outer Eden)** makes up the majority of the charted Sprawl, a large portion of this widely undiscovered, in detail. Due to the Cataclysm, many worlds that may have once held millions of spirited life are now reduced to rubble,- ruins, and uncharted histories. In a sense, this has given way to a new wave of exploration, of rediscovery and rebirth. Hundreds of adventurers and star-charters venture into the Frontier to make their mark, every cycle,- few of them returning, having failed their trials or simply found new livelihood in the grasp. Often labeled 'Outer Eden' by it's occupance, It's distance away from any formal Peacekeeping Corp has paved the path to this freedom, as well a transit to the lawlessness that comes with it,- ten bandits and marauders appearing for every one tenacious new pilot. Lawbringers within the sparse colonies that stick it out in Outer Eden attempt to quell the forces of evil that linger around, and sometimes they even succeed,- however, their arm of influence only reaches so far, and in the spaces between, there is more than enough room for malevolent prosperity.

Outer Eden is equally home to pillagers, raiders, slavers, and militants as it is average frontiersmen, looking to duck the ever-present threat of taxation from the Protectorate. Many of the planets in Outer Eden's reach were used for countless experiments and combat theaters,- either by the once-civilizations that lived there, neighboring unfeeling Mega-Corporations, or as the result of 'mutual' warfare the biome happened to be between. As such, many of Outer Eden's residences are plagued by malformities and mutations of one strain or another, medicine and education

Finally, **The Void**; of which little is known about. The Void is the endless black that's assumed beyond the stars,- the space between the last kiss of light, and the gentle reaches of the next, unclaimable galaxies. The Void is where stars stop, and suns go to bleed.

It's presumed by scientists and **Sourcers** of the Eld that the Void naturally pools Eldriki Radiation like some sort of unholy gravitational pull. In a practical sense, researches believe that as Eldish emissions seep into our realm, whenever and wherever they may come from, they tend to go outward,- outward eventually, no matter the direction, being the void. More spiritually inclined believe, however, that the abhorrents that dwell in the inescapable dark siphon it towards them to feast, only growing in size and hunger with time. . .

No one truly knows, however. Tales and warnings, horrorstories told in Darkspeech translated to word of man,- these are the only thing that escapes the Void, that dives that deep. The Blackwatch in Solemn alongside the Umbral Vul are some of the only beings that maintain residence in the cruel expanse,- and they barely even reach past the lip of Outer-Eden, light still fully within their domain. Past their walls, and far, far past their feeble grasp at the untouchable, there is only dark.

Only dark, and what rests within.

These Four Megaspans make up 'The Sprawl', and contain everything that the light of Eden's Embrace has touched, alive or otherwise. Though sentience can be found in most corners of the galaxy, the spaces between the charts remain unseen, the trade of exploration still alive and well in the modern era.

The civilizations that lie within are too numerous to list, though that hasn't stopped some from trying. **Galactic Holo-Carvers** and the highest paid Statisticians often group discovered communities within three different categories: Technological Level, Culture, and primary Species,- the three of which generally give an overarching idea of the pictured populace.