-The Galaxy in Sections: Its History and Current State-
The Karitzuian Galaxy is a spiral galaxy, meaning its shape is similar to our galaxy with "arms" that spiral out from a center. During the Age of Conflict the galaxy had chaotic borders strung out everywhere, usually pertaining to individual nations and empires (which often consisted of only one race and its subspecies). These races fought constantly, until the Akrai formed the Council; once this happened many of the chaotic borders - mere dots in the galaxy similar to tribal territories - began to form peace treaties, and intergalactic nations formed where these individual races banded together under one name. The Akrai saw something in these new relationships, but unfortunately they couldn't try anything out before the Zorg assassinated their ambassadors and destroyed the race altogether, before claiming much of the galaxy around their home planet for parsecs on end for themselves. By the middle of the Age of Conflict there were still plenty of individual, space-faring nations, with only a few collaborating nations with shared borders and one superterritory just offset from the galaxy's center, which belonged to the Zorg.
The biggest change after this was the slow formation of more nation conglomerates (allies who choose to unite under one name with another step of government to manage the entire relationship), though with the Zorg suppressing anyone who became "big enough" to be a threat, the growth was slow, still dwarfed by the amount of new nations that kept popping up. However, the Arokians - who weren't part of a conglomerate, but still had plenty of allies - managed to defeat the Zorg and scatter them throughout their previous territory; lifting this oppression caused an explosion of growth. By the end of the Age of Conflict and into the beginning of the Age of Knowledge, the ratio of new nations to the creation of conglomerate nations had become more balanced.
The early existence of the Age of Knowledge didn't have much going on as conglomerates slowly grew, and space-faring nations began to be discovered rather than created as explorers spread out beyond their home territories; then an explosion of further order was created when Naritarasu began performing miracles and spreading her wisdom across the galaxy. Without any prompting from her many races began to rank her higher than their leaders, which caused issues on the levels of hierarchy. Seeing a potential "civil war" (she saw the galaxy as whole the entire time she explored it), caused by jealous higher powers trying to control their people, who would rather follow her, Naritarasu immediately began devising a compromise, which resulted in the Galaxy being bundled up into one thing with a stair-step government going all the way up to a supreme leader. Upon creating this system she worked with many of the agitated leaders to create the perfect checks-and-balances system so that, despite there being leaders up at the top, those leaders who worked under them would still have power on steadily more individual levels, and at the same time only steadily more serious issues would reach higher officials. After thoroughly revising the plan multiple times, it was put into effect. This put a giant grid "overlay" on the galaxy that neatly sectioned out each piece of it, which made deciding the steps of government easier, and additionally standardized a naming system for unique objects within the Galaxy. This "grid" is called the Static Boundary (it does not change regardless of what the races do), whereas the individual territories of each race are the Dynamic Boundaries, since they will still change on a whim regardless of the Static Boundary; a good way to visualize this is a net sitting on top of a fish tank. The fish will still move around on their own accord, banding together and splitting apart, but if one looks down through the net the Static Boundary can be seen, with each little square being a sector that the fish move through.
The biggest change after this was the slow formation of more nation conglomerates (allies who choose to unite under one name with another step of government to manage the entire relationship), though with the Zorg suppressing anyone who became "big enough" to be a threat, the growth was slow, still dwarfed by the amount of new nations that kept popping up. However, the Arokians - who weren't part of a conglomerate, but still had plenty of allies - managed to defeat the Zorg and scatter them throughout their previous territory; lifting this oppression caused an explosion of growth. By the end of the Age of Conflict and into the beginning of the Age of Knowledge, the ratio of new nations to the creation of conglomerate nations had become more balanced.
The early existence of the Age of Knowledge didn't have much going on as conglomerates slowly grew, and space-faring nations began to be discovered rather than created as explorers spread out beyond their home territories; then an explosion of further order was created when Naritarasu began performing miracles and spreading her wisdom across the galaxy. Without any prompting from her many races began to rank her higher than their leaders, which caused issues on the levels of hierarchy. Seeing a potential "civil war" (she saw the galaxy as whole the entire time she explored it), caused by jealous higher powers trying to control their people, who would rather follow her, Naritarasu immediately began devising a compromise, which resulted in the Galaxy being bundled up into one thing with a stair-step government going all the way up to a supreme leader. Upon creating this system she worked with many of the agitated leaders to create the perfect checks-and-balances system so that, despite there being leaders up at the top, those leaders who worked under them would still have power on steadily more individual levels, and at the same time only steadily more serious issues would reach higher officials. After thoroughly revising the plan multiple times, it was put into effect. This put a giant grid "overlay" on the galaxy that neatly sectioned out each piece of it, which made deciding the steps of government easier, and additionally standardized a naming system for unique objects within the Galaxy. This "grid" is called the Static Boundary (it does not change regardless of what the races do), whereas the individual territories of each race are the Dynamic Boundaries, since they will still change on a whim regardless of the Static Boundary; a good way to visualize this is a net sitting on top of a fish tank. The fish will still move around on their own accord, banding together and splitting apart, but if one looks down through the net the Static Boundary can be seen, with each little square being a sector that the fish move through.
The Static Boundary's Naming System:
The Dynamic Boundaries are constantly changing, so much so that it's practically impossible to keep track of every change on a mass scale; instead, those changes are logged individually with each territory. However, the Static Boundary is - as implied - static, so it wasn't hard to devise an intergalactic standard for naming each "hole" in the "fish net".
There are four Clans in the Galaxy, so despite the Clans not having an established influences within the Galaxy (since the races of each Clan are scattered throughout it) it just seemed natural to have the Galaxy first divided into fourths. Each fourth is a Quadrant of the Galaxy, and going clockwise from the upper left corner they are Quadrants A, B, D, and C respectively. Each Quadrant is then divided into hundredths; these chunks are called "centa", and are designated with numbers 00-99. Each centa is then further divided into 25 sectors, each labeled with a letter (omit "Z" in the English alphabet when translating; original lettering is Akrai, which is the standard inter-galactic language of the Galaxy).
With quadrants, centa, and sectors all in place, all that was needed after that were indicators for individual objects. The Arokians helped flesh this part out, though the manner of abbreviating all of this information into a label for say, a planet, was hammered out using hundreds of ideas from the different conglomerates at the time.
For celestial objects, simply letters were used:
For solar systems themselves, a solar system is given the letter of its sector (A-Y) and a number assigned to it to differentiate it from other solar systems in the sector (unlike the rest of the naming structure, these numbers are arbitrary according to when solar systems are discovered/created); this name is then hyphenated with its centa number and quadrant number, in that order.
So the full name of a terrestrial planet would look similar to this: T1-A23-45B. "T" indicates the object type (terrestrial planet), "1" is which terrestrial planet in the solar system it is, "A" is which sector the solar system is in, "23" which solar system it is in the sector, "45" which centa the sector is part of, and "B" which quadrant that centa is part of. "T1" is the name of the planet, and "A23-45B" is the name of the solar system. For an object without a solar system the first part of the name would only be a letter, and the second part of the name would be missing a number. Example: P-L-23C.
In some cases a solar system will drift outside of its Static Boundary into another Sector; these solar systems are given dynamic labels instead of static labels. A dynamic label simply has two middle parts, which are divided by a "(". So a solar system that drifts from Sector G into Sector H could be labeled as "G(H-76A", and an only gas giant within that system would be labeled "G1-G(H-76A". Due to the gentle movement of the galaxy's rotation being capable of completely messing with the entire naming structure, the central axis of the Static Boundary rotates with the galaxy; in terms of the metaphor, the fish net moves with the fish tank to orient itself in whichever way it desires.
There are four Clans in the Galaxy, so despite the Clans not having an established influences within the Galaxy (since the races of each Clan are scattered throughout it) it just seemed natural to have the Galaxy first divided into fourths. Each fourth is a Quadrant of the Galaxy, and going clockwise from the upper left corner they are Quadrants A, B, D, and C respectively. Each Quadrant is then divided into hundredths; these chunks are called "centa", and are designated with numbers 00-99. Each centa is then further divided into 25 sectors, each labeled with a letter (omit "Z" in the English alphabet when translating; original lettering is Akrai, which is the standard inter-galactic language of the Galaxy).
With quadrants, centa, and sectors all in place, all that was needed after that were indicators for individual objects. The Arokians helped flesh this part out, though the manner of abbreviating all of this information into a label for say, a planet, was hammered out using hundreds of ideas from the different conglomerates at the time.
For celestial objects, simply letters were used:
- T = Terrestrial Planet (similar to Earth)
- G = Gas Giant (similar to Jupiter)
- S = Star (includes suns, which is just a term for a star that has celestial objects - most notably, planets - orbiting it)
- AM = Asteriod or Meteor
- AMB = Asteriod/Meteor Belt
- C = Comet or a similar small, orbiting object
- A = Anomaly (unexplained object)
- N = Nebula(e)
- P = Pulsar or similar object
- W = Wormhole
- B = Blackhole
- M = Moon or satellite
- TM = Terrestrial moon or satellite
For solar systems themselves, a solar system is given the letter of its sector (A-Y) and a number assigned to it to differentiate it from other solar systems in the sector (unlike the rest of the naming structure, these numbers are arbitrary according to when solar systems are discovered/created); this name is then hyphenated with its centa number and quadrant number, in that order.
So the full name of a terrestrial planet would look similar to this: T1-A23-45B. "T" indicates the object type (terrestrial planet), "1" is which terrestrial planet in the solar system it is, "A" is which sector the solar system is in, "23" which solar system it is in the sector, "45" which centa the sector is part of, and "B" which quadrant that centa is part of. "T1" is the name of the planet, and "A23-45B" is the name of the solar system. For an object without a solar system the first part of the name would only be a letter, and the second part of the name would be missing a number. Example: P-L-23C.
In some cases a solar system will drift outside of its Static Boundary into another Sector; these solar systems are given dynamic labels instead of static labels. A dynamic label simply has two middle parts, which are divided by a "(". So a solar system that drifts from Sector G into Sector H could be labeled as "G(H-76A", and an only gas giant within that system would be labeled "G1-G(H-76A". Due to the gentle movement of the galaxy's rotation being capable of completely messing with the entire naming structure, the central axis of the Static Boundary rotates with the galaxy; in terms of the metaphor, the fish net moves with the fish tank to orient itself in whichever way it desires.
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