The galaxy is brimming with life. Spacefaring species explore the stars, while those without the capabilities watch, planetside, from their homeworlds. Civilizations expand across systems, across the galaxy. The Milky Way is vast, an infinite frontier, and full of possibilities.

With so many different technology levels, biological differences, and socioeconomic roles between species, the galactic population is a mess of intelligences, artificial lifeforms, and non-intelligent organisms all intermingling, watching or warring with one another. There is no governing body, no political system between species, or desire to conquer, coexist, or to create special bonds between most galactic civs. Boundaries between species are blurred and ever-changing. Alliances form, conflicts occur, wars start and end just as abruptly. But, there are species who thrive on the chaos of the galaxy.

Intersystem economies rise and fall at the turn of the century. Markets fluctuate between extremes as change, expansion and discovery drive tech, exploration, economy and war in new unexpected ways. What was valuable in one moment, will be worthless in the next. New discoveries raise those on the bottom up, and topple those on top without reason, or mercy. It is a constant cycle of growth and death.

Because of the sheer size of the Milky Way with its massive amount of stars, new discoveries are frequent. It’s ordinary for newly explored sections of the galaxy to be littered with remnants of past civilizations, spanning hundreds of systems, and thousands of years. Meanwhile, older, more well traveled parts of the galaxy fade from popular memory, disappearing altogether never to be heard from again. The abundance of space and its resources mean entire galactic civilizations can live on top of one another, never interacting or competing, and sometimes without ever realizing the existence of one another. Yet, sometimes, this can last for centuries, even thousands of years, until one fateful interaction changes everything. The rest of the galaxy ripples with the effects of such a random discovery.

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Humanity spent two hundred thousand years alone in the universe. Throughout their history, humans have always looked to the stars, and dreamt of one day reaching them. Now amongst the countless systems, humanity realizes it was just one species of many who did the same…

The Milky Way, if it were a map, would be a three dimensional object cross-sectioned into nine pieces: four horizontal quadrants and five vertical slices. Humans label these sections as: Sectors One through Four, and Height Classes A through E.

Humanity’s place is on the inner band, on the top of the galaxy sector; otherwise Horizontally in the 3rd quadrant, and Vertically on A level (the top most part of the milky way plate). In short, Humanity’s home is located on Quadrant 3A.

Their sphere of influence stretches across the 3rd quadrant by a dozen star systems but only a couple of systems above and below A layer of the galaxy. The Sol system is at its center point thus humans have expanded outward from there.

Humanity is a large type civ and holds planets and interests in fifty systems. Population estimations are as low as 50 Billion to as high as 75 Billion. Real numbers are somewhere in between.

Humans have a ton of neighbors, but because of the few Prime civs nearby, humanity has enjoyed a relatively calm galactic expansion. The nearest Prime civ is a Prime six species named in the human alphabet by the species as Hr’ts Vi. For humans, the species has been named Aquatilium Sapius Neratus. Nerata is what humans have designated their home world. Only neutral relations exist between the two.

Humanity, though a large galactic force, spans only the width of a pin prick on the galactic map. Across the Milky Way, there are thousands of species just like them, all looking ever outward towards the stars…