Spore Galaxy



The Spore Galaxy or Milky Way, commonly referred to as The Galaxy, is the spiral galaxy in which the game Spore transpires. It contains many billions of stars as all galaxies do (however many fewer can be visited in the game). It is only possible to achieve Interstellar Travel in the Space stage.

The galaxy is seen through the Galaxy View, which can zoom out to see progressivly larger portions of it. Eventually as an Empire advances, it gains prizes called Badges. Interstellar Travel is achieved by "drives" which allow the vehicle with it to hop from star to star.

All the planets an empire has discovered are avaliable in the Sporepedia, a database that consists of all known planets, empires, and species. Aswell as stars there are Binary Systems, Black Holes ,Proto-Planetary Disks, Nebulae and other galactic formations.

Government


Although the galaxy lacks a central capital or seat of power, the Galaxy is a federalist republic, with all spacefaring civilizations as members, although the Grox may be an exception. It is not known how much power the galactic government has over empires. The only known law is the Galactic Code which mandates fair interaction among empires. It can be assumed that the government generally allows empires to follow their own paths and enforce their own laws. As such, wars are anything but uncommon.

Planets, Moons and Comets
Among the billions of systems in the Galaxy, only about 100,000 are visitable. Many of the visitable planets are inhabitated, like Bilzac. But many planets are also barren with no life, like Lamstus.

Some planets also can have Moons orbiting them. The player's Homeworld will always have a moon. They are most commonly found orbiting Gas Giants. Also, the player can see comets and asteroid rings in some star systems.

Star systems
A star system is a star and all sattelites that orbit it or are within a reasonable distance. However, since the gap between each star is so huge, features are simply grouped with the closest star, so there is no set distance.

Will Wright said "Oh, well, there will be probably well over a hundred thousand. I mean, far more than a player could ever visit. Which is why there is no point to having another galaxy. If there are going to be thousands of stars in a galaxy there is no way that one person in their lifetime could ever visit them all."

When the UFO leaves the planet, and then the star system, the player will find himself in the very large void of space, however the player is not all alone. Using the UFO tool SETI, it is possible to find other inhabited Star systems with planets at various stages of evolution. The player can travel to these star systems and planets to make contact with the inhabitants.

Easter Eggs
The Spore Galaxy also guard many Easter Eggs. This is a list of the Easter Eggs in it:

Creature Creator

 * When you spin the galaxy very fast, Will Wright's head appears.

Main Game

 * If you spin the Galaxy very fast, a cluster of pictures of the producers will appear. When you press CTRL+SHIFT when you see the pictures, you see more of them.


 * The player can find the Sol system with Earth in Space stage.


 * Upon entering the Galactic Core, the Wormhole tunnel walls is covered in multicoloured llamas. Llamas have been used in Maxis games since Sim City.


 * Steve is obviously the same UFO from Sim City 3000 who would attack cities.

Rumors
Some players have claimed that they come across Humans near the Sol system in Spore after visiting Earth. However, Humans appear to live on a different system. It is unknown if this is real, because these Humans could be user created creatures.

Some have also claimed that they warped out of a wormhole and came across a Planet Spode, inhabited by Spodelings. They cannot be scanned and if abducted can be sold for 900,000 Sporebucks each.