The Ossar Empire is the first galactic power. Founded in the year 10,000 GAE (beginning of the Imperial Comput) by the Emperor Stelmar on an area of 100 systems around the capital Ossarion, IO , it quickly spread covering a large portion of the Galaxy. It now has 50,000 systems in 6 regions, plus the Imperial District. Former seat of the Galactic Senate, moved to Galata during the galactic crisis of 6,200 PO, it now includes the seat of the Alliance and other galactic organizations. The leading economic and military power, the Empire is at the head of the Galactic Alliance, a leading political and military organization on a galaxy-wide scale. Led by the same dynasty since its founding, the Empire has enjoyed a period of peace and prosperity for 5000 years, unequaled in the annals of the Galaxy.