Chevrau Galaxy

## **Overview**

The **Chevrau Galaxy**, alternatively known as **Skyriver** is a fairly average-sized barred spiral galaxy found within the outskirts of the Palioxis Starfield, in a separate pocket of space-time. In terms of properties Chevrau Galaxy spans 105,000 light-years in diameter and contains 400 billion stars. It may contain at least as many planets, or likely even more. The stars in the innermost 10,000 light-years form a bulge and one or more bars that radiate from the bulge. The galactic center of Chevrau is an intense radio source known as Apotheosis, a supermassive black hole.

The Chevrau Galaxy was split into two sides in the distant past, known as the **Klani** and **Mortis**. Mortis would be devoid of sentient lifeforms, while the Klani would be similar in terms of lifeforms to a typical galaxy like the Via Sagittaria. In total, the Chevrau Galaxy features four key galactic civilizations, along with the many others which range in size from ten to a thousand star systems. These vast nations are ruled by six sapient species which have survived the great filter.

During the plane's primordial formation epoch, the galaxy of Chevrau was broken apart from the rest of the plane. The true extent of this barrier is unclear, but it emits a substantial number of magical energy and is impenetrable in any fashion, including with superluminal drives. **Kiltanenom**, as the barrier is named, effectively confines the Chevrau's species to only a limited region of the Palioxis Starfield. An absolutely miniscule fissure around a thousand kilometers in diameter emerged in the galaxy's 'southwest' allowing Drazonian colony spacecraft to access the galaxy.

## **Satellites**

Similarly to most other galaxies, the Chevrau Galaxy possesses no satellite galaxies. Nevertheless, it possesses three vast nebulae orbiting it. These are referred to as mini-galaxies since they orbit a galaxy. While all of these satellites are blocked up from the greater regions of the plane, they are connected to each-other and Chevrau through large conduits of space-time.

### **Maystia Cloud**

The Maystia Cloud is the largest of the three nebulae orbiting Chevrau. Measuring roughly five-thousand light-years in diameter, Maystia contains roughly a billion stars. Most of these stars possess planetary systems of their own, though many simply do not. A great number of undetected multi-light-year-wide cosmic storms rage in the Maystia Cloud, creating many hinderances to interstellar travel and communication.

A dozen sapient species have survived the great filter in the Maystia Cloud, twice more than in Chevrau. This in-turn has resulted in over ten unique interstellar civilizations dominating the entirety of the Maystia Cloud. Only ten percent of the Maystia Cloud is considered wild space, ungoverned space free from any laws and politics.

A vast amount of ancient Origatian ruins have been discovered in the Maystia Cloud, some floating freely between the stars, while some are contained to the surfaces of many planets and moons. These ruins have given the society of the Maystia Cloud and Chevrau far greater understanding of the first recorded species in the Chevrau Galalaxy.