Fiction:Cyrannus Galaxy

The Cyrannus Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, NGC 5457 or the Pinwheel Galaxy) is a face-on spiral galaxy distanced 23 million light-years away, first documented by humans in the 18th Century. It is a relatively large galaxy compared to the The Milky Way-with a diameter of 170,000 light-years being nearly twice its size. It is famous for being home to many large and rich empires, mainly the United Republic of Cyrannus and the Confederacy of Allied Systems, who united the galaxy under the flag of two waring factions. Much of this great galaxy remains unexplored, mostly away from the heavily populated Core Worlds. These unknown regions are probably filled with unknown factions and empires.

Local Space
Cyrannus has many nearby companion galaxies known as the Quadrants, where many famous empires like the former Imperial Alliance, which was destroyed due to an internal conflict and the brave and ancient Rambo Nation originate. It is due to this proximity that Cyrannus is often associated with the Quadrants and vice versa. Both Cyrannus and the Quadrants have many ancient structures which may link an ancient civilization together, many of these unknown structures were discovered during the dreadful Intergalactic War, which damaged large parts of the galaxy. However, in the era of the Great Cyrannus War, the galaxy grew and became even more powerful, despite the war raging within.

This close link made Rambo Nation, the first empire in the universe to contact the predesscor to the United Republic of Cyrannus, the Capricorn Sector Alliance. This contact grew into an alliance, and was eventually formed into the large, powerful and peaceful Cyrandia Alliance, which acts as an intergovernmental union in the galaxy.

The closest satellite galaxy of Cyrannus, is the small irregular galaxy of Cyranai, which is currently being colonized by the different factions in the war.

List of Empires

 * United Republic of Cyrannus- 9,000,000+ systems. (Dominant Galactic Power)
 * Adelphi Republic- 1200 systems (Not Native)
 * Osteolan Kingdom- 64,000 systems
 * Cavaneu Interstellar Union- 89,000 systems


 * Confederacy of Allied Systems- 8,000,000 systems
 * Basileus Imperium- 14,000 system
 * Mortalitas Empire Colonies (not native)- 4,400,000 systems
 * Trucinex Imperium (not native) - 900 systems
 * Libertus Liberation Front - Unknown


 * Rambo Nation- 1200 systems (Not Native)


 * Delpha Coalition of Planets (not native)- 921 systems


 * The Meta (not native)- 100 - 150 systems


 * Iron Giants (native)- Number of systems unknown


 * The Nobi Nations of Drenol (not native)- Number of systems varies.


 * Cosmic Republic (Not Native) - 15 systems


 * Federal Khereg of the Asgord (Not Native) - 20 systems


 * Friendly Republic of the Asgord (Not Native) - 15 systems


 * Tahar (Not Native) - 10 systems


 * Joran Planet Alliance (Not Native) 500 systems


 * Gjigantrox Interstellar Union (Not Native) - 50 systems


 * Shka'Tun Imperium (Not Native) - 58 systems

United Republic of Cyrannus


The United Republic of Cyrannus is a huge union of star systems within the Cyrannus Galaxy, incorporating most of the known galaxy, it is the first government to ever achieve this in Cyrannus.

The Republic is one of the most civilized civilizations in the cosmos and its multi million systems serve as a beacon of light in an otherwise dark universe. The Republic ruled by a president has a strong democratic government which remains one of the most stable in the Gigaquadrant, it can be described as a union of systems and sectors which promote peace, diplomacy and trade. This being said the armies of the Republic are huge and feared by its enemies.

The Republic is probably best known for its diplomats and ambassadors which can be found promoting peace across the galaxy and beyond. Recently, the Republic has been pulled into a large war with the Confederacy of Allied Systems. This war is leading to thousands of worlds joining both factions, making them both very powerful. Who knows how this will turn out.

Confederacy of Allied Systems


The Confederacy of Allied Systems (More commonly known simply as the Confederacy) is a gigantic empire that holds most of its power in the region of space near the Quadrant Galaxies, with a large presence in the Cyrannus Galaxy. It also holds a great deal of power in the Mortiol Galaxy, the ancestral homeworld of the Mortalitas Empire, a founding member.

The Confederacy has many more members, which range from systems across the universe, empires and corporations with octillions of Cubits. The Confederacy is currently locked in a war in order to destroy what it sees as the corrupt URC. After months of fierce opposition and border violence, a gigantic war broke out, the largest the galaxy has ever seen. However, both sides became richer due to the costs of war, which made Cyrannus as a whole, very rich.

The Confederacy is located primarily in the Outer Rim of the galaxy, however most of its power lies in the seperatist planets of the Core World, who have a lot of wealth and power.

Rambo Nation (Not Native)


The great and glorious Rambo Nation is full of pride and its history is filled with glory, drama, wars and heroes. They Rambo were the first extragalactic government to contact the Cyrannus Galaxy, and a great alliance was formed. The Rambo nowadays have a great influence in Cyrannus with over one thousand colonies near URC space, in order to promote diplomacy and trade with their allies.

Rambo Nation first began to colonize Cyrannus in the year 15 BTC. Over 1500 colonies were set up in a matter of two years, all of them near to Republic space. The capital of the Rambo's colonies in Cyrannus is the peaceful and shared colony of Ramaprica and they are ruled by Ram'Lendilia, a friendly and royal Serindia. These Rambo Colonies are very rich and supple much tourism and wealth to Cyrannus.

Libertus Liberation Front
The Libertus Liberation Front is a rebel faction within the United Republic of Cyrannus that violently opposes the rule of the Cyrannus Senate and that of the Office of the President. Led by General Da’Foná, the Liberation Front was once a peaceful movement, but in the aftermath of the Intergalactic War, many colonies escaped from the hold of the Republic and declared themselves members in the Liberation Front.

As the years went on, the Liberation Front joined the Confederacy of Allied Systems, in the hope that this superpower will be enough to end what it sees as a corrupt Republic.

The Liberation Front controls a small but well equipped fleet with the intention of causing as much damage to the URC as possible.

Congaran Union
The small, but well known Congara is a strange race of ecologists that only colonize the most beautiful worlds in Cyrannus, because of this, their worlds are extremely well kept, and their cities are at one with nature, with trees growing alongside skyscrapers.

The Congaran Army is small, and its ships are often used as generational ships (They have FTL drives, but only use them in emergencies), these cruisers are organic in design and have only light weaponry to use against pirates and other threats.

The Congaran Union is extremely neutral, but has good relations with both the Confederacy and the Cyrannus Republic, despite not being a member of both. The Union itself has been spacefaring for over three millennia, but it is still Tier 4 due to the fact that the Congara are happy with their current position.

Coraian Planetary Alliance
The Coraian Planetary Alliance is a relatively large nation located close to the borders with the URC. The CPA is officially a member in the Cyrannus Republic, but it disagrees with many of its policies and is only a member out of necessity, not choice.

The Coraian’s are a fiercely independent, loyal and intelligent race with neutral relations with almost all other empires, including other members in the URC. The Planetary Alliance is famous for its shipbuilding which produces many URC ships, along with strangely Confederate ships, however the URC has been trying to stop this, to no effect so far.

Coraian are very secretive and hardly ever venture out of their home sector, this being said, they often serve as captains, bounty hunters and even smugglers for almost any empire that one can think of. The CPA is Tier 4, having great technology at the expense of size.

Regions
Under Construction

Core Worlds
The Core Worlds of Cyrannus are the astronomical, economic and political heart of the United Republic of Cyrannus. They have been the center of Cyrannus civilisation for several thousand years, before even the Libertus and the Grox. This is probably due to the energy that can be harvested from the Galactic Core. However, in more recent times of the Cyrannus Republic, the Core Worlds are the starting and ending point for the majority of the galaxies hyperspace lanes.

Many important worlds such as Orbispira and Corulus are located in the Core Worlds.

Real Galaxy
The giant spiral disk of stars, dust, and gas is 170,000 light-years across or nearly twice the diameter of our galaxy, the Milky Way. M101 is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. Approximately 100 billion of these stars could be like our Sun in terms of temperature and lifetime.

The galaxy's spiral arms are sprinkled with large regions of star-forming nebulae. These nebulae are areas of intense star formation within giant molecular hydrogen clouds. Brilliant young clusters of hot, blue, newborn stars trace out the spiral arms. The disk of M101 is so thin that Hubble Telescope easily sees many more distant galaxies lying behind the galaxy.

M101 (also nicknamed the Pinwheel Galaxy) lies in the northern circumpolar constellation, Ursa Major (The Great Bear), at a distance of 25 million light-years from Earth. Therefore, we are seeing the galaxy as it looked 25 million years ago — when the light we're receiving from it now was emitted by its stars — at the beginning of Earth's Miocene Period, when mammals flourished and the Mastodon first appeared on Earth. The galaxy fills a region in the sky equal to one-fifth the area of the full moon.