Continuing from last week, this the rest of the general information.
The Capitol Planet is Beacon circling Centrum GY. The capitol city is Faith.
The next to last emperor was Esau Manuel who replaced Benjamin, a despotic emperor who sired multiple illegitimate children and ignored much of the law.
Cyrus was the last emperor. His empress was Sythia Terrance. Several years before the coup she and his children were killed while on a visit to her home sector by pirates. This essentially broke his spirit. Huge Cascade is a nephew of Sythia, his mother being her sister.
Average sector size – 23.5 million cubic parsecs. A majority of the life sustaining stars are found around the fringes. Exceptions include Beacon and Keep Off The Grass which are located in unusual bubbles free of stars deep inside the core.
Sectors contain approximately numerous inhabited planets. They run out the arms and across the central bar. The center cluster is 1,000 light years (kly) thick and approximately 500 ly wide by 5 kly long surrounded by a thick halo of dust.
Spinning out from the bar are the major arms Perseus and Carina-Sagittarius. Between these arms are the Norma & Outer and Scutum-Centaurus arms. Earth is part of the minor arm Orion-Cygnus. Because the arms are not perpendicular to the center, but swept back it is often fastest to travel between arms where greater speeds can be realized due to fewer navigational hazards.
On average there are 3,000,000 stars for each inhabited planet, however they are not evenly distributed. Nearer the core where there are more old stars where inhabitable planets are rarer. Farther out, there are few habitable planets in star nurseries also.
Next week we’ll begin some specific Core Empire history.
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