The galaxy | Wookieepedia | FANDOM powered by Wikia. The galaxy. Total stars. Total star systems. Size. The galaxy was one of the billions of galaxies that existed in the universe. Composed of some four hundred billion stars in a disk 1. Galactic Empire.[7] The galaxy was home to between five and twenty million sentientspecies, and over one hundred quadrillion sentient beings[8] lived in one billion star systems, interacting with each other through travel, diplomacy, trade, politics, and war. ![]() In historical memory, this galaxy had been ruled by the Galactic Republic, the Galactic Empire, the New Republic, and the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, and was home to the Force- using orders of the Jedi and the Sith. Astrography. Edit. Structure. Edit. The galaxy was between 1. The galaxy's luminous disk contained some four hundred billion stars, of which around a quarter had been properly surveyed by the galactic community by the time of the Galactic Empire. The luminous disk revolved around the Galactic Center, a supermassive black hole that massed as much as four million suns. As late as the Declaration of a New Order, only probe droids had ever visited the black hole at Galactic Center.[1]The galaxy bulged around Galactic Center to form a bright sphere known as the Deep Core. This region was around seven thousand light- years across and contained some thirty billion tightly- compacted stars. Towards the center the stars of the Deep Core were only around a hundredth of a light- year apart, and were known to collide and rip out each other's stellar cores. Most of the stars of the luminous galaxy were in a disk of spiral arms rotating around the Deep Core. Galactic civilization named four spiral arms: the Bakchou Arm,[9] the Ettarue Arm,[1. South Arm,[1. 1] and the Tingel Arm.[1. The brightest supergiant stars were concentrated in the spiral arms, as well as glowing clouds of gas and dust, which contributed to the apparent gaps between the arms even though those areas were full of stars.[1]Most stars were within a thousand light- years above or below the plane of the luminous disk, forming a two thousand- light- year region known as the "thin disk". For three thousand, five hundred light- years on either side was the "thick disk", which was poorer in stars than the thin disk and even fewer of these had a system of planets.[1]Stellar halo. Edit. A portion of the galaxy, seen from above the galactic plane, showing the luminous disk, the spiral arms, and the bulge of the Deep Core. ![]()
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have a new crew member—an adorable robotic ball capable of recording video while moving in zero gravity. Dubbed. There was something very telling about Marvel’s decision this past Monday to announce to The New York Times how its Secret Empire event would end. It felt like the. Beyond the thick disk was the stellar halo, a huge sphere surrounding the entire galaxy with a few billion stars in highly elliptical orbits.[1] Nearly two hundred globular clusters orbited in this region. The globular clusters were typically lifeless, packing hundreds of thousands of extremely old, inhospitable stars into only a hundred light- years. Many of the globular clusters, however, were considered extremely beautiful sights, such as Cosm's Well.[2]The galaxy was orbited by seven dwarf satellite galaxies, some of which contained twenty billion stars. They were ranked in order of distance. The closest was Companion Aurek, also known as the Rishi Maze, a complex tangle of stars high above the galactic plane. The vehicle, dubbed the “Shchit” or Shield in English, vaguely resembles a bulldozer except with an armored shield instead of a blade attached to its arms.Companion Besh, also known as Firefist, was some 1. The other satellite galaxies, Companions Cresh through Grek, were much further out. Most of the Companions were described as having ancient, metal- poor remnants of stars and not much life.[2]A hyperspace disturbance beyond the edge of the galaxy severely complicated hyperspace travel outside the disk and generally discouraged extra- galactic exploration. A band of whorls and eddies that spun around the galaxy too quickly to be traversed at faster- than- light speeds, a number of astrophysicists believed this to be a creation of a mysterious ancient race known as the Celestials.[1. Beyond the galaxy's rim, separating it from other galaxies, was a vast expanse of starless space known as the Intergalactic Void.[1. While there was a hyperspace disturbance outside of the galaxy, hyperspace made it possible within the galaxy to have an enormous and diverse civilization. Of the galaxy's 4. Main Sequence (the other 1. The larger blue and white stars of the sequence - the O- , B- , and A- type stars - such as Garnib, Kessa and Colu, lived for a few million years and rarely possessed systems that had intelligent life since it had too little time to evolve. The most habitable stars were G- and K- type yellow and orange dwarfs such as Corell and Yavin, which had lifespans of tens of billions of years giving life plenty of time to evolve. G- and K- types between them made up 1. The most common stars in the galaxy, however, were M- type red dwarfs, which comprised 7. Barab, were habitable. Very few red dwarfs were settled: most were surveyed by probe droids in the early years of the Galactic Republic and were typically left abandoned unless they possessed mineable resources.[1]Factoring in the output of heat and light needed for an advanced civilization to form, therefore, there were 7. It was estimated that about one billion of those systems were actually populated or had been settled by sentient beings.[1][3][4]Formation. Edit"…there's very little in this universe that rises above the mean and petty. Maybe the stars themselves."―Princess. Leia Organa[src]Some thirteen billion years before the Battle of Yavin, an immense cloud of gas and dust collapsed under its own gravity and coalesced to form a revolving disk, creating the galaxy.[1. Over many more billions of years, the stars and planets began to form. By 5,0. 00,0. 00,0. BBY, life had begun to evolve in the galaxy, with some of the earliest examples of non- sentient life developing on Goroth Prime.[1. Around 2,0. 00,0. BBY, many of the galaxy's most well- known species were evolving: the Wookiees began on Kashyyyk as a species of tree- climbers.[1. The Oracle of Pelgrin, quite possibly the oldest artifact in the galaxy, was believed to date from this period.[1. By 2. 00,0. 00 BBY, the Zhell, ancestors to the Humans, had developed intelligence and were waging war against the Taungs for control of their mutual homeworld of Notron, later known as Coruscant.[1. The earliest civilizations. Edit. The galaxy under the Rakatan. Infinite Empire. By 1. BBY, a mysterious race known as the Celestials dominated the galaxy. Also known as the Architects, this spectacularly powerful race was believed to have been capable of manipulating and moving the very stars: surviving Celestial machinery like Centerpoint Station and the Cosmic Turbine could manipulate gravity on a titanic scale with repulsor pulses, tractor beams, and hyperspace wormholes. With this technology, the Celestials were believed to have been responsible for building the Corellian system, the Vultar system, and 1. Hapes Cluster, the Kathol Rift, and the Maw black hole cluster.[3][1. Pre- Republic specialists believed the Celestials to also be responsible for the hyperspace disturbance beyond the edge of the galaxy, possibly as a defense against outside interference. They were also believed to be responsible for the chain of hyperspace anomalies west of the Core that bisected the galaxy and prevented travel into the Unknown Regions. Speculation holds that the Celestials had crafted the hyperspace anomalies that bisected the galaxy in order to contain the Rakata.[1. A number of other spacefaring races around this time became clients of the Celestials. The insectile Killiks of Alderaan were exploited as laborers and were seeded across the galaxy, until around 3. BBY when they disappeared into the west of the galaxy and into the Unknown Regions, presumably relocated by the Celestials. The Kwa and the Gree made use of structures known as the Infinity Gates and hypergates, respectively, to travel between planets and came into territorial conflict with each other. Other species fled to escape the Celestials: the Sharu of the Rafa system far in the galactic east had a brief period of expansion, spreading their iconic plastic pyramid cities as far into the Core as Aargau, but this may have attracted the attention of the Celestials and the Sharu buried their cities and sought refuge in primitivism to escape them. Likewise, the Columi of Columus made surveys of both the Humans and the Duros in the Core and were unimpressed by what they found, but also fled back to their homeworld, perhaps to avoid retribution from the Celestials.[3]Around 3. BBY, the domain of the Celestials was usurped when the Rakata slave race revolted. Stealing technology from the Kwa, they waged war against the other servant races,[2. Unknown Regions into the galaxy proper and waged a war of extermination upon the Celestials. The eventual fate of the Celestials was unclear. They may have been trapped inside the galaxy by their barrier and destroyed by the Rakatan revolt, or they may have escaped through the barrier.[1. By 3. 0,0. 00 BBY, the Celestials were nowhere to be found,[2. Rakatan Infinite Empire had taken center stage.[3]The Rakata fanned out from their homeworld of Lehon in the Tempered Wastes of the Unknown Regions, using hyperdrives that channelled the power of the Force to guide them to worlds with strong Force signatures. The Infinite Empire occupied a scattering of systems across the galaxy, but vast tracts of territory between these holdings remained untouched, allowing smaller interstellar confederations to flourish. The Devaronians and the Gossam experimented with the tumble hyperdrive, and while worlds like Coruscant, Corellia and Duro were occupied by the Rakata, Humans, Duros, Selonians and Drall were able to study the principles of the Rakatan hyperdrive. The Rakata proved to be cruel masters, consigning entire subject populations to slavery. After nearly five thousand years of dominance, the Rakatan Empire collapsed after a devastating plague swept through the Empire that stripped the Rakata of their ability to use the Force.
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