Fiction:Milky Way Galaxy

The Milky Way galaxy (also known as the Plazith Rim, Vintergatan, Mutter's Spiral and many other names) is one of the major galaxies in the First Gigaquadrant. It is a huge spiral galaxy at around 110,000 light years in diameter, full of civilizations, mysteries and much else.

History
The history of the galaxy is vast. Only the most ancient civilizations know what had happend millenia ago, but rarely share their memories. Wars are in bold. Note that if the years aren't consistent with your timeline, remember that time is percieved differently by different species (as well as the dates and calender being different). This is a mix of human and Grimbolsaurian timelines.

Ancient past - Billions of years ago

 * 13 billion years ago:The Milky Way began to form.
 * 10 to 6 billion years ago:Due to a variety of new elements, complex life started to rise.
 * Most of the First Ones evolve.
 * 6 billion years ago:The Galactic Core becomes less active until various galactic collisions occur.
 * 7 to 3 billion years ago:The systems such as the Sol system and Chilius system that will become the homeworlds of modern day civilizations begin to form.

Once great Galactic empire - 1 Billion years ago

 * 1 billion years ago:A great empire once spanned the galaxy, thew Coadurnation of Autonamous Beings however, empires such as the Naucean, ascended.
 * 65 million years ago:Two asteroids (and other events) caused a mass extniction on Earth, however, a race of Saurians escaped Earth.
 * Archeohumans evolved and expanded to 200 LY radius from the Sol. They were next conquered or become extinct.

Last few millenia - 1 million to 1000 years ago

 * 600,000 to 100,000 years ago:
 * The Ancients and some of the First Ones ascend or die out in great wars (like Time Wars, Shadow wars), leaving behind great relics, such as artificial wormholes ("Stargates").
 * Humanity, who are destined to become a great empire, evolve from archeohumans.
 * Many advanced civilizations were founded 100,000 years ago (Lemuria or Mu), however, several alien races enslaved them (one parasetic species used them as hosts), and spread them throughout the galaxy. Eventually, humans were able to drive them offworld (but caused a huge collapse and a dark age, along with Ice Ages present at the time, humans reverted to Stone Age life) in another places, but Atlantis originated past 12.000 years and it become interstellar .  On some of the other planets, humans evolved into Near-Human races, resulting in the variety of humanoids.  Not all aliens were so mean, some decided to spread humans to protect them from enslavement.
 * The Xhodocto, are unleashed by humans from a monolith. They begin the first scourges and formed the Congregation in the Nexus galaxy.  The Xhodocto spare humans and Earth.
 * 10,000 years ago:
 * Atlantis is being destructed, and next civilization on earth is beginning to form
 * The Yoburt, a founding member of the DCP become space-faring (this is to explain why a 400 year old empire is as advanced as one that is many millenia older, along with the fact the DCP took control of the Galactic Core early.)
 * Some of the DCP's allies begin to advance to space.
 * The advanced civilization Xyntarex' Exna becomes a empire.

Last 1000 years

 * 1000 years ago:Atlan humanity from Sirius become interstellar
 * 780 years ago:Auridian humanity from Sirius become interplanetary
 * 765 years ago:Auridian humanity from Sirius become interstellar
 * 700 years ago:Humanity from Earth become interstellar, and allied with several alien races to a form a Federation. Various wars (including the sci-fi ones) occured during this time period.  The humans came out on top.
 * 500 years ago:Humans create the Jovar Empire, who later set out for a quest to find their creators.
 * 350 years ago:The Xyntarex' Exna's homeplanet gets attacked by The Grox. Factories break and toxic waste gets spilled into seas.
 * 240 years ago:Xyntarex' Exna leaves their homeplanet because of over pollution.
 * 200 years ago:Humans leave Earth to their destiny in the stars.
 * Last 1000 years/DCP history - 400 years ago
 * 400 years ago:A great nuclear war occurs on Mirenton, however, Emperor Wormulus Ist unites surviving nations on the post-holocaust planet.
 * 350 years ago:The Grimbolsaurians luckily survived become spacefaring. However, they met a terrible enemy (Wubs), but allied with other Delpha Sector empires, who overwhelmed their foes.
 * 270 years ago to 240 years ago:The DCP are at war with the Grox, known as the Grox Resistence who were eventually defeated. The DCP took control of the core (harnessed its energy) which expanded their technology and size extremely quickly, soon, they were dominating the Milky Way in the glorious Golden age...
 * Last 100 years:
 * 34 years ago:Founded the Seven Starr Alliance and started exploring intergalactic space.
 * 17 years ago:Entered the War of Ages.
 * 14 years ago:The DCP and allies lose, and the Scourge occurs, which wipes out much of the life in the universe. The DCP and allies escape to Universe 66501.  However, some stay behind and the Expansion Wedge and other expansion regions are set up when the DCP returned (so they could return power and reseed life).
 * 11 years ago:The DCP and their allies the CSA join forces in the Trucinex War.
 * 9 years ago:The Nanohorde plague begins, who consumed many planets, stars, cities, life and fleets but the DCP and allies eventually stopped them.
 * 4 years ago:The DCP/Loron war and Second Galactic War begins.
 * 2 years ago:The DCP collapse into a civil war.
 * 9 months ago:The Xhodocto become evil once more, and begin their xenocides of the universe. Meanwhile, the DCP also get involved with the Intergalactic War.
 * 7 months ago:The DCP and allies defeated the Xhodocto in the final battle.

Recent

 * 5 Months ago:The Cognatus Crusade of the Milky Way begins, as they converted many empires through force.
 * Last few weeks:
 * The Tokzhalan Empire begin the Milky Way campaign, and severely reduce to the Borg Collective in size, allied with the Daleks and united the Near-Human empires (sci-fi empires). Their goal is to wipe out normal empires, or ally the bigger ones, to allow Truly alien life to flourish.
 * Battle of Sol.
 * Near-destruction of the Borg Collective.
 * Alliance with the Daleks.
 * United near-human empires into the Human Coalition.
 * Daleks destroy the Convenant.
 * Tokzhalan Empire allies with the Grox remnant.
 * Almost all the human, transhuman and near-human (various sci-fi civilizations like the Jaffa, Minbari and the Klingons) empires merge into either the Human Repulic or the Human Coalition.
 * The Human Coalition is almost destroyed by the Grox, and flee to merge with the Human Republic. The Human Republic and the the DCP prepare to invade the Grox Remnant in the Milky Way.
 * Jovar Empire officially splits
 * 1 week ago: The Xhodocto attack and destroy most of the universe, many empires displaced, various new nations enter Milky Way
 * Wentalians (from the Wental Galaxy) flee to the Milky Way as their new mainland territories.

Statistics
The Milky Way is between 100 and 120 thousand light years across, and contains over 400 billion stars. It is one of the largest and most influential galaxies in the Local group of galaxies (partly because many empires in fiction are within it). The Milky Way completes a full rotation about once every 50 million years. The disk is about 1,000 light years thick and the bulge is about 12,000 light years thick. The halo that surrounds the disk and arms is 180,000 light years thick, and contains mostly old stars and hypervelocity stars that have been kicked out of the galaxy by the Galactic core. The Halo is a very poor place to colonize and contains few planets with life and fewer colonies than the disk. The DCP has colonised Far Star, named after a comet in the Chilius system. The Halo also contains globular clusters and some dwarf galaxies that are getting shredded and absorbed into the Milky Way.

Locations
Includes real and fictional locations.
 * Astronomical Phenomena


 * Civilizations and cultural constructs

Political Division
The Milky Way does not have one dominant faction, but does contain very large and powerful empires. The Milky Way is a very big galaxy compared to most, and has over 400 billion stars, so there is lots of room for many, many factions. Because there is so many, it would be very difficult to create one large alliance or even conquer the entire galaxy, although the DCP's territories are expanding more quickly than most. There was an extinct galactic empire that existed millions of years ago known as the Coadunation of Autonomous Beings, but the members such as the Naucean are thought to have ascended.

Due to recent conflicts, some civilizations are joining the "Milky Way" cooperative, neither an alliance or an organization, empires simply combine their efforts to become one Meta-civilization when the need arises, either to gather a new energy source or during a galaxy-wide conflict.

Inhabitants
There is over 10,000 civilizations inhabiting the Milky Way (although the majority are Tier 6 to 4, avoid contact or are in the far reaches, and remain unknown). Most are very alien (Tier U), and rarely interact with other empires or are interested in galactic affairs. However, some of the more powerful empires do. Some civilizations don't make it long after their discovery of nuclear energy, this means finding dead radioactive worlds is not too uncommon. The Galactic Core is rather devoid of normal life, due to the intense radiation, with only the harshest of life forms like the Grox surviving, and the Galactic Halo contains mostly low metallicity old stars, meaning life is also less common. Civilizations tend to exist in certain space environments that are calmer, and thus can form quite closely to each other.

''To use this scale, add your empire in each arm by order of Tier's, and note their status. If they didn't evolve in that region but have colonies, add colonies to the list. The list below shows the major influencing powers of the galaxy. However, many more exist, including varios Tier Unknown civilizations and Truly Alien life recently discovered.''
 * Galactic Core, bulge & bar
 * Xeelee (Unknown, Tier 0, fanfic) - Activity of the interuniversal Xeelee has been detected near the core, as their mysterious spacetime ships sweep the stars.
 * /allies (Destroyed, Tier 2, extragalactic) - This menace has been defeated.
 * (Defeated, Tier 2, native) - Defeated along with the Grox.
 * (Recovering, Tier 1, extradimensional) - Activity of The Junction hs been detected near the Grox's previous territory.
 * Colonies of the: DCP, Salsetthe, Consortium, Jovar & Gablinus Avis


 * Perseus Arm
 * Asgard (Left, Tier 2/1, fanfic) - The Asgard became extinct long ago due to mass suicide. However, their extragalactic cousins returmned to research them.  During the Imperial Civil War, they left.  The Asgard have helped the galaxy in many ways, protecting human, building advanced technology, help in defeating the Ori invasions and the Replicators which would have destroyed the galaxy.
 * & Iron Bloc (At war, Tier 3, native)- Have similar yet less aggressive ideals with the DCP.
 * Last Goa'uld System Lord (Defeated, Tier 3, fanfic) - Nearly all of the Goa'uld had been destroyed centuries before, however, the might of the Grox was enough to defeat the last hiding the shadows. The only symbionts now are the Tokra, and a few confined on their homeworld.
 * Cephalodian Life Guardians (Thriving, Tier 4, native) - The Cephalodians protect all of the interests of life in the galaxy.
 * Colonies of the: Iron Giants (3)
 * The Mercuris Federation - Tier 2
 * The Shellious Imperium (Thriving Tier 3,non-native) - The Shellious Imperium is a race of retillian beings from the far second gigaquadrant galaxy of wental. They are currently taking residence in the Crab Nebulae.
 * (Growing, Tier 3, native) - A warmounger empire created from mutated Grox clones. They are known for enslaving other species.
 * (Growing, Tier 4, native) - A friendly empire of traders, currently expanding their influence to other galaxies.


 * Norma-Outer Arm
 * Galactic Empire (Left, Tier 1, fanfic) - Came frome a mysterious galaxy but then left again during the Imperial Civil War.
 * Cognatus Alliance (Disappeared, Tier 1, extragalactic) - Controlled many systems on the edge of the galaxy, but then disappeared
 * / (Tier 2, native) - The Jovar were created by humanity, and look after Earth since humans left it.
 * (Returning, Tier 2, native) - Now returning to their home.
 * Dominion (Extinct, Tier 3, fanfic) - Now extinct when they plunged into a civil war.
 * New Trucinex Imperium (Unknown, Tier 4/3, native) - They were defeated during the Trucinex Wars, but it is unknown where they have gone now.
 * Hogomoth Refuge city ships (fleeing, Tier 3 (once), native) - Hunted across the galaxy.
 * Colonies of the: CoreFed Commonwealth of Jave'ruii


 * Scutum-Crux Arm
 * Delpha Coalition of Planets (Disappeared, Tier 1, native) - The DCP was one the most powerful residents, but disappeared after the Xhodocto destroyed the universe.
 * /DCP allies (Growing, Tier 1, extragalactic) - In order to suuport the DCP, several of their allies had a few colonies in the galaxy.
 * House of the Krassio (Thriving, Tier 1, extragalactic) - The Krassio watch for Xhodocto activity.
 * CoreFed Commonwealth of Delpha (Steady, Tier 1, extragalactic) - Colonized near the Delpha Sector in secret, much to the anger of the DCP.
 * (Thriving, Tier 2/1, extragalactic) - The URC currently doesn't have much interest in the Milky Way.
 * (Thriving - The Rambo created several embassies for diplomatic means.
 * Royal Forion Galactic Senate (Steady, Tier 3, extragalactic)
 * Colonies of the:Nobi Nations(about 70-80) and Meta(about 50)


 * Carina-Sagittarius Arm
 * (Expanding, Tier 2, native) - One of the more advanced powers of the Milky Way.
 * Species 8472 (Invading, Tier 2/1, fanfic) - These transdimensional aliens wish to eradicate most life in the galaxy.
 * Borg Collective (Recovering, Tier 2, fanfic)
 * Vartekian Empire (Growing, Tier 2, extragalactic) - The Vartekians plan to conquer the galaxy.
 * More Near-Humans (Recovering, Tier 3/2, fanfic) - Delta Quadrant races (Star Trek)
 * Taxton Republic (Thriving, Tier 3, native) - One the richest and largest empires in the Milky Way.
 * (Steady, Tier 3/2, extragalactic)
 * [[Fiction:Jarquvix Federation|Jarquvix Federation}} (Thriving, Tier U/3, native) - Own a tightly packed empire. Not interested in expansion.
 * (recovering, extrgalactic) - 500 thousand colonies.
 * LWA (recovering, extragalactic) - 400 thousand colonies.
 * Wental Grox (recovering, extragalactic) - 50 thousand colonies.
 * Other Wental Empires (6)(recovering, extragalactic) - 50 thousand colonies.
 * Colonies of the: Human Republic, CoreFed Commonwealth of Taxton
 * Dracogonarious Empire (Growing, Tier 3, native) - A notable empire of friendly scientists, currently expanding.
 * Spinker Empire (Reformed, Tier 3, native) - Once a thriving empire, was destroyed and later revied and absorbed into the Dracogonarious Empire.
 * (Destroyed, Tier 5, native) - An empire of zealot fanatics, destroyed by the Spinker Empire.
 * The Marinoxidiz (Destroyed, Tier U, native) - Demonic successors of the Marinox, destroyed by the union of several empires.


 * Orion-Cygnus Arm
 * First Ones (Moved, Tier 1, fanfic) - The Culture, Forerunners, Vorlon, Shadows, Walkers of Sigma-957, Time Lords, Sphere Builders, Naucean & Xynaxes were ancient races billions of years and unimaginingly powerful. Many had left or ascended, or had become extinct leaving only relics, while some stayed to guide the young races.  In the Imperial Civil War, they left beyond the Rim in gave the DCP the responsibility of the galaxy.
 * New Dalek Empire (Thriving, Tier 1, fanfic) - The Daleks are now gripped in a devastating war with Species 8472.
 * Gablinus-Avis (Destroyed, Tier 2, native) - The Gablinus Avis were a powerful nation, however, they were destroyed by an AI.
 * Human Republic/Near-Humans (Thriving, Tier 3/2, native/fanfic) - Humans and Near-humans (Klingons, Romulans, Minbari etc) have a long history in the galaxy and have become a major influence. Recently they have united into a Republic.  Occasionally, the Wraith attack their weaker systems.
 * Bearian Nations Space Command (Expanding, Tier 3, native) - The BNSC are desperate to expand.
 * The Terdiatlans (Expanding, in military crisis, native) - The Terdiatlans are expanding there, but recent disasters like destruction of Auridia and revolt of dark Terdiatlans are weakening them alot.
 * Covenant (Extinct, Tier 3, fanfic) - A fanatical empire which caused problems until the Daleks eradicated them in a day.
 * Reckzo (Growing, Tier 4/3, native) - The Reckzo are a promising empire, and have began to collect star energy.
 * Dragonisk (Unknown, Tier 4, native) - A small but hostile empire.
 * Colonies of the: Jovar (Sol system), SSA (Sol system)
 * Zardalu Empire (Tier 4, Native, Growing) - A smaller empire of large, squid like creatures that consider themselves 'superior' to all other life forms.
 * Xyntarex' Exna (Recovering, Tier 2, Native) - Young empire that has a very important role in trading. Recovering after leaving home planet due to pollution.
 * Bonio Empire (Destroyed, Tier 5, native) - A young empire who was destroyed by the Marinox.


 * Galactic Halo, Monoceros ring, globular clusters and satellite galaxies
 * Neanderthal Empire (Expanding, Tier 3, native) - Taken by aliens shortly before their extinction, Neanderthals plot about retaking Earth and revenge on humanity.
 * (Ascended, Tier U, native) - Ascended to defeat the demon.
 * Colonies of the: DCP (Observatories and dark matter detectors), Pirates and Mercenaries, Loron holdings