Fiction:Realtra-S

Realtra-S is a barred spiral galaxy with two arms and around 160 billion stars. It is seprated in 5 major regions: the Central Bulb, the Dex Bulb Edge (DBE), the Lex Bulb Edge (LBE)on the oposite side, the North Arm (also known as the Ajija Arm)that expand from the LBE and the South Arm that expands from the DBE.

For some unknown reason, this galaxy was devoid of any intelligent life until quite recently. In the North Arm, the oldest signs of space travelers only go back to 1 to 2 million years, if there was any great civilization before that it left absolutly no trace for its successors. This absence is even more pronouced in the South Arm, where the oldest known civilisation that ever existed only dates its creation back 60,000 years. Because of this strange emptiness, there is to this day no civilization that has developed to the point of dominating the entire galaxy, at best some have conquered an entire sector, but no more.

The one exception to this is a specie of cyborgs that occupied and the Central Bulb for longer than any can remember. Their name? The Grox. So advanced and so powerful that any other race resembles an undeveloped larva compared to them, the Grox could rule Realtra at any time they wish, yet they dont. They prefer to remain in the central bulb, destroying any who approach too close and isolating themselves from any foreign race. Wether or not their presence is liknked to the strange recent lifelessness of Realtra is unknown...