Fiction:Lower Sagittarius Arm

The Lower Sagittarius Arm is a region of the Milky Way Galaxy. As the name suggests, it is located on the "southern" or "lower" side of the Standard Galactical Map, being formed by the outer two thirds of the Sagittarius Arm. The Lower Sagittarius Arm houses multiple regional interstellar powers that are expanding and building up first relations to the major players of the First Gigaquadrant, hoping to someday become as mighty and powerful as they are.

=Astrography=

As already mentioned, the region primarily consists of the outer part of the Sagittarius Arm. The space surrounding and adjacent to the arm, which is subject to colonization by its inhabitants, is traditionally included in the definition. The inner demarkation, e.g. the separation from the Inner Sagittarius Arm, is still subject to debate. The classic definition draws the border roughly between the Talven Empire and the Kicath Republic's Milky Way Territories while some astrographers use the Talven Empire's eastern boundary as the demarcation line.

Being located in the galactic periphery, the Lower Sagittarius Arm's star density is moderate and declines westward. The outermost tip, commonly called "The Spike", slowly fades into intergalactic space, having become a refuge for red dwarfs devoid of habitable planets yet valuable because of the resource-rich asteroids orbiting them. Exclaves of the Milky Way Cooperative and mining outposts of the Medwedian Democratic Federation form the central part of the Lower Sagittarius Arm while the easternmost and densest sectors are the locations of the homeworlds of numerous spacefaring civilizations.

=Inhabitants=

The Lower Sagittarius Arm is culturally and biologically diverse. Its major empires are populated by countless humanoid and non-humanoid species. Most regional powers