Magha V

It's not known how many sapient races inhabit the spiral galaxy of Magha V. There are, of course, the Big Six, but another half dozen less colonial races abide by the rulings of the Galactic Central Authority, and another half dozen are known not to. That's to say nothing of the vast unexplored swaths of void between solar systems, or species adapted to planets considered too difficult to colonise. Most travelers stick to well-defined routes rather than risk unknown dangers, and many children dream of acquiring a ship and blazing a trail through unknown space.

Geography

Overview

Magha V is a SAc galaxy (unbarred spiral galaxy with loosely wound, unbroken arms). Like most galaxies, it contains at its centre a massive black hole, so many organisations have twin headquarters either side to reduce travel distances within the inner quadrants. Braver travelers Dimension Door through the black hole itself, a move with has a success rate of approximately 70%.
Thanks to the GCA's love of order, Magha V is divided into concentric circles known as quadrants, a misnomer from before the gnomish ship Linvomu's second voyage to the outer systems. Stars are described by their arm of the galaxy, a quadrant, and a number within that; other locations are described by a star, an orbital order and a categorisation. This, of course, works well on paper and atrociously verbally, so most refer to planets by their original names, which the GCA records in a registry.

Inner Systems

The four original inner quadrants (Alpha through Delta), containing the home planets of all but one of the Big Six, are considered the seat of advanced civilisation, with cutting edge space stations, a host of lauded academies and research centres and easy access to the GCA. The majority of planets in this region are predominantly monoracial, and most of the colonies are old enough to be firmly established.

Outer Systems

Technology and standard of living within colonies decreases with distance from the galactic centre, and the culture of different colonies of similar races can vary enormously with location. Exacerbating this is the cultural mixing pot effect, with outer colonies being heavily mingled. Distant systems have low levels of technology and varying quality of infrastructure, and are often much younger than their inner system counterparts.

Maps

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  Magha V Galaxy Map

  The zones and quadrants ("quadrants" like there's not up to 26 of them now). Zones are the spiral arms of the galaxy and are lettered A to Q. Quadrants radiate out along each zone and are labelled B-Z as required. Stars are then numbered to identify solar system, planets and other objects of interest are numbered from the closest to the star outwards (for overlapping orbits, the orbit which reaches closest to the star takes precedence), and a category is then applied (eg M for moon, A for asteroid).
  The standard numbering system is Zone-Planet-Quadrant-Star-Category.

Type

Galaxy

Included Locations

• C-QZ-1315