Known Worlds

The term Known Worlds design the colonies that were reconnected and rejoined the Federation following the Second Apocalypse. It contrasts with the **Unknown Worlds**, which are hypothetical colonies still active, but were not contacted. Since it has been thousands of years; culturally, ethnically and geopolitically, they are now most probably no more compatible with the Federation, and may start a useless conflict.

The Known Worlds spans around 15,000 ly years in length, and is almost only located in the Orion Arm.

## Sectors

The Known Worlds are divided into sectors. The sectors are generally star systems and their inhabited colonies regrouped due to similar policies, industries and specific production.

* Eden Sector, an agricultural sector, responsible for 33% of the Known Worlds food production and 12.5% galaxywide tourism.
* Apollo Sector, a sector located entirely within the Confederation of the Apollo Systems.
* Nex Regin Sector, a sector responsible of 85% of the Known Worlds supply of Nex Reginium. Historical place of origin of the Milky Way Federation.
* TCAG "core colonies", the eponymous three colonies.

## Unknown Worlds

The Unknown Worlds designs the territories of the Milky Way that are not currently controlled by any Briserian nation. From ancient maps and detected signals from across the galaxy, it is theorized that the Unknown Worlds represents roughly 50% of the Milky Way. The Unknown Worlds surrounds the Known Worlds, and reach up to the Galactic Center, where it is well-known that the ancient Briserian nations colonized multiple worlds here.

It is prohibited to chart any star system within the Unknown Worlds, and all Briserian nations signed and ratified multiple treaties to prevent any attempts. Multiple star systems, no more charted due to the long period of time between initial discovery and now, are known to have bore human settlements and cities.

As an example, the Pillars of Hercules systems are two heavily-restricted systems and are the only systems in the Known Worlds to be located within the military jump distance limit to the Way of Sadness. The Pillars of Hercules systems are filled with scanners, jump detectors and trackers, and a special corps of the FBS is dedicated to prevent any civilian or foreign attempts at exploring or travelling in the Way of Sadness.

Due to the complexity of current Faster-than-Light technologies, which is the only known way of travelling faster than light, uncontacted human settlements are theorized to have reached only the Space Age, with limited attempts at space exploration. It is also theorized that a lot of uncontacted human settlements reverted to a previous age, such as our equivalent for Renaissance or Medieval times.

### Precisions

The Solaris Bi-Republic was once designated as part of the Unknown Worlds, but were integrated within the Briserian nations and are now part of the Known Worlds. The Way of Sadness is not part of the Unknown Worlds, but it is only a trail of barely charted star systems. The Outer States are within the Unknown Worlds but the colonized star systems are now charted and inhabited by Briserians, therefore, the Outer States are not part of the Unknown Worlds.