Fiction:Wental Galaxy

The Wental Galaxy is a large mostly uninhabited galaxy with plenty of free space.

Species Living Within It

 * Iron Giants- Made up of the Jin, the Balu, and the Oit species. Number of system controlled: Unknown, between 150 thousand and 200 thousand.
 * The Meta- A decent sized empired, made up of the Meta and the Worldforest Mind. Number of systems controlled: between 100 and 150 thousand.

Notable Places

 * Groig Nebula- Groig was once a star, but went nova many years ago. It is now a final refuge for anyone and anything fleeing an enemy, as you can wander in the nebula for many thousands of years without ever meeting another living soul...
 * Teron- Capitol of the Meta Species.
 * Object U- Object U is a massive complex of seemingly random structures that are all interconnected though strange portals and impossible angles. Also called the "Labyrinth", Object U is approximately the size of a system, and no one who has ever entered it has returned from the journey, at least, not sane. Several have made it back out, one several hundred years after entering, but they have only been able to babble in unrecognized languages.
 * The Machine Planet- The Machine Planet is a massive planet that is basically one big machine. Its purpose is unknown, but every so often it shoots a massive beam of superdense laser light out into space, aimed for a distant galaxy so far away that its not even in the gigaquadrant. No one has ever bothered to go there, so no one knows what live(d) there.

History
Wental has had a strange history. It was originally a heavily populated galaxy, but none of the native species were intergalactic. Then, the Grox decided to leave the galaxy, for reasons unknown, and many of the native species went to war over the core. No one species won that war, and most were wiped out. The survivors have since either ascended or died out, but the ruins of their galaxy girdling empires can still be found in a few places.