The Silver River

The Silver River Galaxy

The Silver River, more commonly known as **The Galaxy**, was one of the galaxies that existed in The Universe. It was home to many different races, civilizations and contained a plethora of habitable worlds. No one civilization ever had full control over the entirety of the Silver River Galaxy, however over the course of the four **Eras** many empires would expand to encompass one of it's several arms.

The Silver River Galaxy was home to the **Star Children**, as history crossed over into the **First Era**, it saw the rise of the **Alicore** and **Human** led **Andron Empire** respectively. Eventually such empires would fall and give way to successive factions such as the **Vak Conglomerate**, the **Arcadian Accord** located in the **Carina Colonies** and the **Monokonstruct Empire** on **Varze**.

## Description

The Silver River had a diameter of 105,700 light years, and approximately 100 billion stars. Two major satellite galaxies orbited the Silver River, as well as a small dwarf galaxy orbiting closely. The Silver River was divided into many arms, but notably travel would encompass four major regions; **The Orion Arm, the Carina Arm, the Scutum Arm** and the **Perseus Arm**.

There were multiple ways to navigate the Galaxy, such as the human method of having ships rip a hole in physical space time and instantaneously "jumping" from one point or the other. Other races such as the Alicore would utilize Ley lines to travel through these two points through **Hammerspace**. Billions of sentient beings called the Silver River their home, and there were seldom attempts made to leave it.

## Arms

The Silver River consisted of several arms home to dozens of sentient species. Out of it's many arms, few are associated with history throughout the **Eras**.

### Orion Arm

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The Orion arm's history predates the **First Era** and is considered the be the origin point for all of humanity. Humanity flourished for thousands of years within the smaller sized Orion Arm under the banner of the **Andron Empire** which at it's height controlled the near entirety of the Orion Arm in the Mid First Era. The Orion Arm was the crux for the Alicore-Andron War within the Late First Era. Due to the conflict, many once habitable worlds within the Orion Arm were rendered lost to navigation and/or rendered inhabitable. Travel to the Orion Arm is sparse following the events of the First Era.

### Perseus Arm

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The Perseus Arm was home to many different sentient races and lifeforms due to it's massive size. After the fall of the Andron Empire, humanity attempted to make the Perseus Arm their home throughout the **Second Era**. The Perseus Arm is filled with a plethora of rich worlds however many have been soiled by conflict which has raged through throughout the Second to Fourth Eras.

### Carina Arm

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The Carina Arm was a vast arm that got it's name through a nebula of the same name. Humans under the Arcadian banner would flee from the Perseus Arm at the end of the Late Second Era to Carina, notably the Carina Nebula where a plethora of habitable worlds were colonized. The humans that resided in the Carina Arm were largely cut off from the rest of the galaxy as a whole and opted to start new lives' and civilizations within.