The Galaxy

When the planes of magic and existence crossed into the mortal plane during the Second Calamity, the universe took on a new look, a new design and layout. This is theorized to be due to all the planes coexisting together. As such planets that never resided in the Galaxy at that point were all of a sudden there, entire solar systems brought into our galaxy and others wiped from existence, as such the galaxy was re categorized. It was once called the Milky Way galaxy during the 21st Century, today it is classified and broken up into different sectors. This occurred during the Space Colonization Era after the Second Calamity. The Galaxy itself is roughly 100 000 - 120 000 light years across.

## Galaxy Center

The center of the known Galaxy is a super massive black hole, its weight is that of 4 million stellar masses or 4 million stars roughly the same size as the one that the Earth rotated around. Other than that there is no other formations or planets in the Galaxy Center.

## Deep Core Region

The **Deep Core** is a small region in the galaxy, about seven thousand light years across, that hides unusual worlds. The Deep Core is home to some thirty billion of the galaxy's oldest stars, at its center is the Galaxy Center, besides a black hole there are also stars that are only a hundredth of a light year apart. In some areas they are in such close proximity, stars would collide and rip the cores from each other. Due to the gravitational pull of the vast number of stars and the prominence of dark matter concentrations, local space-time was severely warped, making hyperspace travel difficult at best. Despite this danger, the Deep Core holds strategic value as it is positioned near the Core Worlds.

## Core Worlds

The **Core Worlds** are some of the most prestigious, well-developed, well-known, least politically restrictive and heavily populated planets in the galaxy. The Core is the hub of galactic culture, finance, technology, education, and fine arts. Noble houses hold a great deal of influence in this region and almost every interstellar company has offices or are headquartered in the Core Worlds. In astrophysical terms, the Core denoted the central area of the galaxy, and in broad terms this was true enough, but the precise usage of the term was often more complex.

## The Colonies

The **Colonies**, also known as the **Colonies Regions**, was the name given to a region of the galaxy between the Core Worlds and the Inner Rim. Due to its close proximity to the galaxy's economic and political powerhouse, the Core Worlds, the Colonies was a largely wealthy region consisting of booming industrial worlds, trade centers, and garden worlds.

## The Inner Rim

The **Inner Rim**, also called the **Inner Rim Planets**, or the **Inner Rim Territories**, was a region of the galaxy between the Colonies and the Expansion Region.

## The Outer Rim

The **Outer Rim Territories**, simply known as the **Outer Rim** and alternatively called the **Outer Rim Systems**, were located outside the Mid Rim. The Outer Rim was the least widely settled and explored expanse of the galaxy before Wild Space and the Unknown Regions. The largest region in the galaxy, it was strewn with diverse worlds, and rugged, primitive frontier planets.

## Wild Space

**Wild Space** was the frontier of galactic society, separating the known parts of the galaxy from the Unknown Regions of the western half of the galactic disk, as well as the fringes of the Outer Rim Territories and the arms of the galaxy. The term had varied greatly over the years, encompassing all areas of partially explored or charted areas as known throughout various stages of history.

## The Unknown Regions

The **Unknown Regions**, **Unknown Space**, **Unknown Sector**, or **Unknown Territories** was the collective term for all regions of the galaxy not formally charted; it differed from Wild Space in that Wild Space was usually minimally charted, but not fully explored.

The Unknown Regions was broadly defined as areas not connected with the skein of reliable or well-known hyperspace routes spanning the galaxy, did not belong to the wider well-known galactic community such as The Consortium or other alliances and political powers, did not look to any ruling government in the known regions as the ultimate center of civilization.