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 100,000-120,000 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 happened 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 perceived 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 BC

 * Proto-galaxy
 * 13,000,000,000 BC - The proto-Milky Way began to form.
 * 12,000,000,000 BC - Far star begins to shine.
 * 10-6,000,000,000 BC - Due to a variety of new elements, complex life started to rise.
 * 9,000,000,000 BC - The First War of Black Fog takes place, perhaps the first war of the Proto-Milky Way.
 * The emergence of life
 * 6,000,000,000 BC - The Galactic Core becomes less active until various galactic collisions occur.
 * The first Grox colonists from Ardenta (Andromeda) begin to colonise the Core worlds.
 * The Milky Way's Truly-Alien "First Ones" evolve and advance, including but not limited to the Milky Way's Pseudomorphs (Founders).
 * 7-3,000,000,000 BC - The systems such as the Sol system and Chilius system that will become the future homeworlds of modern day civilizations begin to form. By now, life is beginning to flourish in the universe, due to the increasing number of stable main-sequence stars and the production of heavier elements.
 * 2,000,000,000 BC - The Xyanxes donate the Milky Way as a wildlife sanctuary and create the living AI planet Fahler, using digital lifeforms to guard it.

1 Billion years ago

 * 65,000,000 BC - Two asteroids (and other events) caused a mass extinction on Earth, however, a race of Saurians escaped the planet and eventually ascended.
 * 1,000,000 BC - Gablinus-Avis achieve sapience.

Last few millenia - 1 million to 1000 years BC

 * Orion Spur, Human and First One history: 600,000 to 100,000 BC:
 * The Ashtar, descended from the Denisova hominin, advanced and became the first human species to leave Earth. Homo sapiens were still diverging in Africa.  Highly evolved, spiritual race, eventually calling themselves, the Ashtar Galactic Command. They built great technologies, such as networks of wormholes and dimensional technology which remained for millions of years as artifacts. The Ashtar made frequent visits to check up on the last few Hominid races of Earth, Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis.
 * The Alpha Draconians return from their plane of existence, meanwhile, the Ashtar ascend to join the Milky Way's First Ones, which is now comprised of the Truly Alien silicomorphs, Psuedomorphs, Naucean and Coadunation of Autonomous Beings. Colletively, these races now edging on Tier 0 guided the young races, particularly Humanity.
 * Earth 30,000 years to 10,000 years BC
 * Neanderthals and other Archeohumans are saved from extinction by the First Ones by being transplanted on another planet terraformed for their needs. Soon Homo sapiens, after the "Hobbits" floresiensis became extinct in Indonesia, were left as the sole survivors of Earth.
 * The First Ones begin to squabble with each other over how the young races should be taught. This led to many wars (War of the Ancients, Time Wars, Shadow wars etc.).  One group of Ashtar, tweaked their bodies to becoming highly versatile, these were the Greys.  They also created parasceic hosts and used early Human civilisations (such as Atlantis, Mu and Lemuria) as slaves and spread them across the galaxy.  Eventually, the other First Ones interveined, but also spread humans around the galaxy (Orion Spur, Scutum-Crux arm), as well as the Quadrant galaxies.
 * The Kei'Un tribe accidently unleash the Xhodocto from their monolith they were trapped in billions of years before.  They begin the first scourges and formed the Congregation in the Nexus galaxy.  The Xhodocto spared humans and Earth, but buried the Eye there.
 * 10,000 BC:
 * Atlantis is being destroyed, and next civilization on earth is begins to form.
 * DCP history, 100,000 to 12,000 years BC:
 * Grimbolsaurian Prehistory/Age of Iron (27,000 years ago): Painted hieroglyphs of Entity Unseen is written in cave paintings.
 * 12,000 BC: 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. Ancient Radeon missionaries convert the Corgel and Quinels to Spode, future enemies of the Grimbolsaurians.
 * 1 BC: The descendants of Emperor Wormulus II with exceptional elemental abilities become the dominant power in the Age of Fire.
 * Elsewhere
 * 100,000 BC: A faction of the Milky Way Grox empire begins to assimilate instead of destroy, they eventually split to become the Borg Collective. Eventually all the Grox drones within die out, and the Collective opted for larger humanoid queens.
 * 38,000 BC: The arrive in the Milky Way. Numerous scientific expeditions are sent out to map the galaxy and study the progress of various developing Milky Way species.
 * The becomes an empire.
 * The Krassio visit Earth and designate it as the metaphorical center of the universe.
 * 2000 BC: Hogomoth become spacefaring (2000 years ago). They set up a powerful empire, with good intentions.

1000-2778 AD

 * Xyntarex' Exna
 * 2430s - The Xyntarex' Exna's homeplanet gets attacked by the . Factories break and toxic waste gets spilled into seas.
 * 2540s - Xyntarex' Exna leaves their homeplanet because of over pollution.
 * 2620s - An unknown illness spreads among Xyntarex' Exna's.
 * Humanity
 * 9th to 1300's - Some of the first non-Host, transplanted near-humans begin to colonise parts of the Milky Way, in the Orion-Spur and Scutum-Crux Arms.
 * 1780s - Atlan humanity from Sirius become interstellar.
 * 2010s - Auridian humanity from Sirius become interstellar.
 * 2080s - Terran humanity from Earth become interstellar, and allied with several alien races to a form a Federation. Various interhuman wars occurred during this time period.  The Federation came out on top.
 * 2280s - Terran humans create the, who later set out for a quest to find their creators.
 * 2580s - Humans leave Earth to their destiny in the stars.


 * DCP
 * 2380s - A great nuclear war occurs on Mirenton, however, Emperor Wormulus Ist unites surviving nations on the post-holocaust planet.
 * 2430s - The Grimbolsaurians luckily survived become spacefaring. However, they met a terrible enemy (Wubs), but allied with other Delpha Sector empires, who overwhelmed their foes.
 * 2510s to 2540s - The DCP are at war with the Grox, known as the Grox Resistance 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...


 * BNSC history
 * Defensive System's Bloc history
 * Gablinus-Avis history
 * Jovar history
 * Salsetthe history
 * 1451 - Occupation of Excaretra ends
 * 1456 - The Salsetthe Republic is formed
 * 1856 - A short war with the Borg starts and ends
 * 2009 - The Salsetthe Republic begins to observe the progress of Earth after they find that a human had created a facsimile of the Salsetthe's physiology with a computer program
 * 2600s - The Salsetthe Republic starts to contact more empires outside of its region of the galaxy
 * Indoctrinate Collective history
 * 1861 - The master space travel and create the Dracogonarious Empire.
 * 1959 - The Dracogonarious genetically uplift the.
 * 2033 - The Battle of the 40 Stars takes place, in a 3-year long struggle between the Spinker and the.
 * 2279 - The Battle for Planet Kaizox takes place.
 * 2781 - Several different species join the Dracogonarious society, reforming the Dracogonarious Empire into the Indoctrinate Collective.
 * 1959 - The Dracogonarious genetically uplift the.
 * 2033 - The Battle of the 40 Stars takes place, in a 3-year long struggle between the Spinker and the.
 * 2279 - The Battle for Planet Kaizox takes place.
 * 2781 - Several different species join the Dracogonarious society, reforming the Dracogonarious Empire into the Indoctrinate Collective.


 * Elsewhere
 * 1800s: The Cephalodians advance enough via their symbiosis with nature to become spacefaring, seeding planets with life and protecting "endagered worlds", as well as teaching their neighbors to embrace nature.
 * 2410s: The become interstellar.
 * 2560's: The Hogomoth attempt to ally with the Grox, having a plan to make them peaceful. The DCP discover these plans but see them in the wrong light and set the galaxy on the Hogomoth, creating a non-removable nanotech beacon which infected every Hogomoth.  With not enough to time to fight the spread, the Hogomoth were reduced to only a million.  They became the Hogomoth Refuge, surviving in vast city ships dotted around the galaxy, never colonising and always on the run.


 * 2700 onwards: The founding of the Gigaquadrant
 * 2722 - The was founded by the Delpha Coalition of Planets and the Oimonsk, and started exploring intergalactic space, discovering the Quadrant and Tigris galaxies, and eventually, Cyrannus.
 * 2761 - The  begins.
 * 2764 - 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 . 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 reseeded life).
 * 2767 - The DCP and the join forces in the Trucinex War.
 * With the Milky Way now having a huge political interest in the First Gigaquadrant, many extra-galactic civilisations begin to colonise and explore the Milky Way. Including but not limited to the Sylit Republic, the extra-galactic Human empire, Rambo Nation, Capricorn Sector Alliance, Mortalitas, Krassio (Cianju), Radeon, Zazane and the Vartekian empire.
 * 2769 - The Nanohorde plague begins, who consumed many planets, stars, cities, life and fleets but the DCP and allies eventually stopped them.
 * 2774 - The DCP-Loron war and  begin.
 * 2776 - The DCP collapse into a civil war.
 * 2778 - The Xhodocto become evil once more, and begin their xenocides of the universe. Meanwhile, the DCP also get involved with the . After nearly half a year, the Onuris Alliance defeat the Xhodocto in the final battle.

2778 onwards - "The Great Change"

 * 2778 - The Cognatus Crusade of the Milky Way begins, as they convert many empires through force, luckily the DCP repelled much of the crusade before it reached more populous zones.
 * 2779:
 * The 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 (Cognatus split faction).
 * Tokzhalan Empire allies with the Grox remnant.
 * Almost all the human, transhuman and near-human 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, along with the Defensive Systm's Bloc, Gablinus-Avis, Jovar and BNSC.
 * The Milky Way Grox are forced out of the galaxy.
 * Many of the extragalactic civilisations leave the Milky Way as it tumbles into chaos and turmoil.
 * The Singularity - The Milky Way's First Ones leave the galaxy, with instructions for the DCP to found the Milky Way Copperative. The Milky Way Cooperative begins to unite indifferent civilisations.  Eventually, the Cooperative began to construct networks of matrioshaka brains, which achieved super-sentience (The Singularity).  The new AI's awoke older, more powerful dormant AI's.  Although some AI's proved to be not interested or even hostile to life (causing the extinction of the Gablinus-Avis), some became nurturing over life or AI polities over this vast new culture of nano, bio and mechano-intelligences.
 * officially splits into and.
 * The  and the Cataclysm take place.
 * 2782 - The Xhodocto attack and destroy most of the universe, many empires are extinxted or displaced, various new nations enter Milky Way, from galaxies that were destroyed completely. The reason why the Milky Way was spared was due to the DCP's sacrifice, giving the Vi'Navitum precious time to save the galaxy.  However, what wasn't saved was rendered lifeless, but not utterly destroyed.  The DCP however, unknown to all but the Apalos, the DCP was not destroyed, but was in fact "downloaded" onto an "Omegapoint", which the now established AI Netspace was processing.
 * The, and  enter the newly-made Ottzello Sector of the galaxy, which was made by the
 * 2782 - The Salsetthe and Jovar take advantage over the void of power left by the vanished Grox and DCP.  begins, a staged war between the  and.
 * The Fourth Ottzello War occurs, caused by Salsetthe-bugged individuals posing as criminals to spark the conflict, and the Zazane Empire, Unified Nation of Ottzello and the Nuns of Conflict leave the galxay, with the 'official' Ottzello sector now existing in the . The start of this war also is the start of The Purge, which aims to eliminate the presence of most extragalactic powers in the galaxy.
 * The Magellanic Sovereignty of Planets were last seen attempting to penetrate the DCP's abandoned territories.
 * The AI Netspace, busy with their unknown project (the Omegapoint) begin to drain power reserves from the Milky Way Cooperative, and a whole star cluster becomes uninhabitable due to high energy cosmic rays.
 * 2782 - The Cow species forms the States Of The Cow.
 * 2783 - The United Federation of Species arrived to the galaxy through a wormhole and was established in different parts of Norma Arm.
 * 2785 -The Scimat'akar Empire launches a sercert invasion to attack the Cow speicies.

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.

Note: When an empire has a line through it, it might be extinct, or presumed extinct/unknown after the Annihilation if the user has not reclaimed it.

''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
 * Transapient activity (Xyanxes, Xeelee, Naucean etc.) (unknown, possibly left, Tier 0, fanfic) - Activity of the interuniversal Xeelee has been detected near the core, as their mysterious spacetime ships sweep the stars.
 * (expanding, Tier 1.6, extragalactic) - The Grox are reclaiming their old terretory.
 * (defeated, Tier 2, native) - Defeated.
 * The Marinoxidiz (destroyed, Tier U, native) - Demonic successors of the Marinox, destroyed by the union of several empires.
 * CoreFed Commonwealth (disappeared, Tier 1, extragalactic) - vanished.
 * Wentals (Recovering, Tier 3, extragalactic) - A small number of Wental Colonies here survived the Mechanization, though they are completely disconnected from the main Wentals Empire. There are 3 planets total and about 150 thousand inhabitants total, as the Mechanization wasn't as severe here as in the main empire.


 * Colonies of the: DCP, Salsetthe, Consortium, Jovar & Gablinus Avis


 * Perseus Arm
 * Asgard (left, Tier 1.3, fanfic) - The Asgard became extinct centuries ago due to mass suicide. However, their extragalactic cousins returned 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.
 * & (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 4/3, native) - The Cephalodians protect all of the interests of life in the galaxy.
 * - (expanding, Tier 2, non-native) - Cosmopolitan empire from the nearby, recent absorption of the Shellious Imperium and hundreds of joint-ruled TIAF colonies have exponentially increased their extent.
 * The Shellious Imperium (thriving, Tier 2/3, 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.
 * Xyntarex' Exna (recovering, Tier 2, Native) - Young empire that has a very important role in trading. Recovering after leaving home planet due to pollution.
 * (growing, Tier 3, native) - A warmounger empire created from mutated Grox clones. They are known for enslaving other species.
 * (growing, Tier 4, extragalactic) - A friendly empire of traders, currently expanding their influence to other galaxies.
 * (growing, Tier 4, interstellar) - A trader empire that is constantly inventing new goods and tools.


 * Norma-Outer Arm
 * Reckzo (unknown, Tier 4/3, native) - The Reckzo are a promising empire, and have began to collect star energy.
 * Drodo Empire (Tier 3.8, native)-A hardy civilization, just emerged from a Civil War.
 * New Dalek Empire (unknown, Tier 1.3, fanfic) - The Daleks are now gripped in a devastating war with Species 8472. For reasons unknown they fled through time...
 * Covenant (extinct, Tier 3, fanfic) - A fanatical empire which caused problems until the Daleks eradicated them in a day.
 * 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.
 * Gablinus-Avis (destroyed, Tier 2, native) - The Gablinus Avis were a powerful nation, however, they were destroyed by an AI.
 * Doriaca Remnant (returning, Tier 2, native) - Now returning to their home.
 * Hogomoth Refuge city ships (fleeing, Tier 3 (once), native) - Hunted across the galaxy.
 * Colonies of the: CoreFed Commonwealth of Jave'ruii
 * United Federation of Species (Tier 3, extrauniversal) - Driven from their universe through a relic outer settled in the Milky Way galaxy around the year 2783.
 * Alpha Grox Collective (Tier 2,Extra-galactic/native) - Various Grox Splinter factions who joined together our of fear of the nuermous threats of the universe. Remain sercertive and Known to only a few empires, Such as The Phradox Grox.


 * Scutum-Crux Arm
 * (disappeared, Tier 1.7, 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 (ascended, Tier 1.6, extragalactic) - The Krassio watched for Xhodocto activity. They have since then ascended into the.
 * (thriving, Tier 1, extragalactic) - The Empire is currently growing exponentially.
 * (thriving, Tier 2, extragalactic) - The Rambo created several embassies for diplomatic means.
 * Royal Forion Galactic Senate (unknown, Tier 3, extragalactic)
 * Colonies of the: Nobi Nations (about 70-80) and Meta (about 50)
 * Scimat'akarEmpire (At War,Tier 3,extra-galatic)-A large Empire planing to invade the Arkit and SOTC.Appraoch with caution.
 * (growing, Tier 5, native) - A small Empire that is currently expanding it's territory.
 * The Consortium (unknown, Tier 3, native) - A consortium of [Maxis] empires, which were in a cold war with the DCP during its first galactic expansion. They failed.  It is uknown if they survived the Annihilation.


 * Carina-Sagittarius Arm
 * (expanding, Tier 2.1, native) - One of the more advanced powers of the Milky Way.
 * Species 8472 (invading, Tier 1, fanfic) - These transdimensional aliens wish to eradicate most life in the galaxy.
 * Borg Collective (recovering, Tier 2/1, fanfic)
 * Dominion (extinct, Tier 3, fanfic) - Now extinct when they plunged into a civil war.
 * (thriving, Tier 1, extragalactic) - The Empire is currently growing exponentially.
 * (steady, Tier 3/2, extragalactic)
 * (thriving, Tier U/3, native) - Own a tightly packed empire. Not interested in expansion.
 * Spinker Empire (reformed, Tier 3, native) - Once a thriving empire, was destroyed and later revied and absorbed into the Dracogonarious Empire.
 * Bonio Empire (destroyed, Tier 5, native) - A young empire who was destroyed by the Marinox.
 * (destroyed, Tier 5, native) - An empire of fanatic zealots, destroyed by the Spinker Empire.
 * (growing, Tier 2, native) - Removed, see
 * Colonies of the: Human Republic, CoreFed Commonwealth of Taxton


 * 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.
 * Human Republic/Near-Humans (thriving, Tier 2.5, 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 but 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.
 * Dragonisk (unknown, Tier 4, native) - A small but hostile empire.
 * / (Tier 2, native) - The Jovar were created by humanity, and look after Earth since humans left it.
 * (active, Tier 2, extragalactic) - The powerful zealot empire holding a large presence in Milky Way, around ~2000 systems scatter across the Orion-Cygnus Arm. The local capital in the Divinarium in Milky Way is Sanctuarium, the lunar ecumenopolis orbitting Alpha Centauri.
 * Colonies of the: Jovar (Sol system), SSA (Sol system)
 * 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