Milky Way

The Milky Way Galaxy is a barrel spiral galaxy containing over 200 billion stars. It has a diameter of 100,000 lightyears. It is estimated that at least 35,000 intelligent species inhabit this galaxy of which Humans are most numerous.

Inner Core
The Inner core is the heart of the galaxy. This zone is a dense pack of stars, planets and black holes. This zone is inhabitable by most known races of the galaxy. What lies within is mostly a mystery. All that is known is that it is home to the Azure Alliance.

Outer Core
The Outer core is also a very inhospitable zone like the inner core, but this is because the many hyperspace storms that are located in this area. These hyperspace breaches are also the cause of the many negative dimension incursions in this area.

The Reaches
The Reaches are split up in 4 parts: The Northern Reaches, Eastern Reaches, Western Reaches and Southern Reaches; all named to their respective galactic direction.

The reaches have a larger densisity of planets making the amounts of resources also greater and the numer of potentional colonies also greater. Civilizations such as the Sol Federation is located in this region and they trive in it.

The downside is because of this density FTL travel is way harder for civilizations relatively new to space faring.

The Rim
The Rim, consisting out of the Inner Rim, Mid-Rim and Outer Rim, is the region with the most civilizations. It has a decent density giving it enough worlds to be possible colonies for civilizations and making it easier to navigate during FTL flight.

Wild Space
Wild Space is considered the edge of the galaxy and anything beyond is known as Dark Space.