Welcome to the Biiractan Galaxy

OVERVIEW AND GOVERNMENT: Pre-Purge

The Biiractan galaxy is a spiral galaxy located approximately 300 trillion light years from the Milky Way's core. It contains roughly 450 billion stars and is home to more than 70,000 forms of sentient life. It is 198,000 light years in diameter and 16,000 light years thick at it's core.

Most of the colonized planets in the galaxy adhere to a central form of government, known as the Union of Intergalactic affairs, or simply The Union. The Union is run by a council of over 200,000 diplomats and each sentient race that adhere's to the Union's laws is represented. The Union is responsible for the intergalactic laws of 85% of the Biiractan's inhabited worlds. While all planets in the galaxy are technically self-goverened, the Union is responsible for laws of interplanetary concern (such as trade and commerce) and for keeping the peace between planets. The Worlds that choose to stay separate from the Union are not permitted to interact with Union worlds. This means that trading and colonization between Union and non-Union worlds is strictly forbidden and is punishable as treason.

The Birractan galaxy is divided into ten Districts. Each district forms a concentric sphere around the galaxy, district one being the smallest sphere encompassing the core (containing the densest cluster of stars and therefore the most populated) and district ten being the largest circumscribing the galaxy's border (having the fewest star systems, and therefore the least populated). The purpose of the districts is to break up the Union into more manageable 'chunks' with each district containing a capital planet that ultimately answers to the Galactic capital in district one. The Districts are as follows:

(1) Ankor

(2) Sulken

(3) Landus

(4) Mirran

(5) Delko

(6) Farmon

(7) Hammond

(8) Rylax

(9) Gandram

(10) Redlox

The modern calendar in the Biiractan uses the formation of the union as the year 00-001. Events before that are measured using a negative sign in front of the galactic year. For example, 300 years before The Union's formation would read (-)00-300. A thousand years before its formation would read (-)01-000.

The Union kept relative peace in the galaxy for centuries. Wars ending in less than 2 Million organic casualties were not classified as major. Since The Union, there have only been three 'Major' galactic wars. However, in 06-948, an event known as the Great Purge War changed the face of the galaxy forever. The Purge was actually a series of events that lead the eventual destruction of the The Union and subsequently most of the Galaxy. Thousands of life-bearing planets were turned into desolate wastelands and the Biiractan suffered over 800,000 trillion casualties, leaving the galaxy with only a fraction of it's original population. Survivors were scattered far and wide on planets that had not been fully destroyed or turned into lifeless space rocks.

OVERVIEW AND GOVERNMENT: Post-Purge

Although the Purge left the galaxy a gaping wound, life continued and the remaining survivors banded together to try and piece together civilization. It was no easy task, but centuries after hard work and cooperation, the Biiractan began to (slowly) rebuild itself. There was no Union anymore, but primitive (as compared to the Union) forms of government were beginning to spawn across the remaining planets and civilization was slowly beginning to start anew.