Eighth Sector
Symbol – Constellation Rocking Chair
Capital – Anatolia
X + 1 to 2 kly Y + 0 to 500 ly Z + 500 ly to Z – 500 ly
89 clusters. This sector has a number of quarantine planets due to a mysterious illness which is
why there are fewer currently counted as inhabited
Orientation – Towards Perseus Arm connection with Core
Neighbors – Outward Ninth, below to Seventh, Coreward Second
Many people wonder why the symbol is called Rocking Chair instead of Cassiopeia. The
reason is that the settlers from the region of what had been Turkey on Earth didn’t like Greece or
its mythology. Also, being somewhat literal minded, it definitely looked like a rocking chair.
The capitol planet they named Anatolia after their homeland within the system Ataturk.
Some superstitious people believe that removing Cassiopeia from the chair brought down bad
luck which is why there are so many planets off limits due to endemic illnesses.
In fairness, Sixteenth Sector has fewer populated planets and the people tehre did nothing
to bring bad luck on themselves.
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