the territory // about 35% of the milky way // pe 8128
The map is the Corporation's. The Territory, largely, is not.
The holding is one vast contiguous territory: about thirty-five percent of the Milky Way under the gold-and-black border, with the galactic center, that furnace of creation and annihilation, under full control at its heart, and the Sol Reach running out from the core to ancestral Sol. What the maps claim and what the rings can reach are two different holdings. The second is the true one.
the territory // 01
The holding, and what stands on it
Hover or touch a marked point for its dossier. The paper border is drawn by the ring web, and the web is still being relit.
the galactic center
the Resonance Core
The heart of the holding and the seat of the Ultimate: the largest supermassive black hole in the Milky Way, the wound-point the fractures have widened seven times. The Family Uplinks terminate here, every Universer's tether drawn to the one point. The Spiritual class calls it the Throne of U.
Beyond the border, influence. Beyond influence, the unmapped country. The others' ground: the Vresh Taal hold the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm, the Kthari hold the Perseus Arm, the Tal'Hai the Norma Arm, the Kreeth Dominion the Outer Arm in influence, the Deep Frost Compact the Sagittarius molecular clouds, and the Dharrak build out past the galactic edge.
the territory // 02
The Frontier, three stretches
The border is a band of fortified Sectors, the most militarized country in the holding outside the center.
the outer arm
where the Border War burns
A grind of sixty Solian years: the Devays contain a proxy expansion backed by the Kreeth Dominion, while the Tarse push to conquer it. The Vresh Taal beyond, the only power the Corporation has fought to a draw three times and never beaten.
the halo-ward stretch
facing the Dharrak
The scattered clusters of the Dharrak Federation, who build out past the galactic edge.
the core-ward stretch
facing the Zha'Lun
The Zha'Lun Compact behind the Unpassable Country, the silent one, whose silence once destroyed a fleet in seconds.
the territory // 03
Beyond the Milky Way
Some fifty galaxies stand at the head of the charts, every one of them joined to the web by a ring, and fifteen of them famous across the Univirse. One law holds all fifty: each was opened in the deep ages, lost to the wounds, and relit in the Refounding's centuries.
Andromeda
the First Sister
Rides the oldest Deep Ring, first opened in the Solian Black, and is the most thoroughly Corporate galaxy beyond home, governed through its Provincial Council.
Triangulum
the Second Sister
Its Deep Ring relit in PE 808, the contested frontier where the blocs gamble.
the Cylinder
the Outpost
The Canis Major dwarf, the smuggling gateway where UCASH converts to SATS at the Wild's edge.
the Crown
the Centaurus A anomaly
Opened for research alone.
the Lantern
the Greater Magellanic Cloud
Granary of the near provinces and the busiest Commerce ring abroad.
the Silence
the galaxy the Corporation does not name
Opened once, surveyed, closed, and left alone. The Silence Between, an absence that thinks, is another thing entire, and the record keeps them apart.
The map is the Corporation's. The Territory, largely, is not.
the canon, section 15