Myrmidan
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Template:Galaxy InfoboxThe Myrmidan Galaxy is the second largest satellite of the Florathel Galaxy. The galaxy is relatively desolate compared to its parent galaxy, having only seven known intelligent species. Currently, the Somnar Hive controls over 95% of the galaxy, having taken over five of the other species in the galaxy. The last remaining intelligent species that have not been conquered are being supported by many major powers in the Florathel Galaxy and surrounds. The galaxy is also a Seyfert galaxy, and its core is reminiscent of that of a quasar, whose jets are visible from the outside of the galaxy.
Physical Characteristics
Myrmidan is an elliptical galaxy with a diameter of 9,100 ly. It contains 2.9 billion stars, making it about 0.03% as large as its parent galaxy. It is roughly 1.4 million light-years from the centre of the Florathel Galaxy and has a population of roughly 851 trillion.
The galaxy is littered with the remains of at least thirty once-great civilizations, some of which were devoured by the Somnar Hive and some of which fell for other reasons. The Providence Union is hypothesized to have colonized a portion of this galaxy.
Galactic Geography
The Myrmidan Galaxy, being elliptical and relatively unknown, only has three galactic regions:
- Core
- Shell
- Halo
Core
The core of the Myrmidan Galaxy is home to its as-yet-unnamed supermassive black hole, as well as many high-mass stars and star-forming regions, quite unusual for an elliptical. This is also probably where Somnar is located. Aside from these facts, this is the least well-known region in the galaxy.
Shell
The "shell" is the region of the Myrmidan Galaxy surrounding the core, and contains such objects as the Sleeping Nebula, a large dust lane that isn't actually a nebula. Most importantly, it also contains the Ardaya System, refuge of the last free species in the galaxy. It also contains the jets emanating from the centre of the galaxy.
Halo
The galactic halo of the Myrmidan Galaxy rapidly fades out into intergalactic space, and is generally uninteresting. It contains no notable systems outside of Globular Clusters, and there are very few of those.
Exurian Cluster
The Exurian Cluster is the largest globular cluster of the Myrmidan Galaxy. It is fully controlled by the Exurian Union, a nation closely allied with the United Nations of the Florathel Galaxy, which has sent the vast majority of its military to help in the Ardaya Conflicts.
Exurian is a relatively large globular cluster, that is unusually dense in its inner parts. Because of this, most everyone outside it who discovered it assumed that it was much smaller than it actually is, because of this extreme density gradient. However, the Exurian Union is currently constructing a relatively small Birch Planet out of the inner stars of the cluster, to concentrate its population. The outer stars are being left alone, to serve as a destination for Project Alazar.
Somnar Hive
The Somnar Hive is a large hive-mind empire that has conquered most of the Myrmidan Galaxy and assimilated most of the other species in the galaxy. They have used the many ruins scattered through the galaxy to rise quite rapidly and subjugate other species. The way they assimilate species has lent them the label of one of the most hated species in the Telusian Group, and no expeditions into their territory has ever returned. What little we know about it comes from intercepted transmissions.
History
Prehistory
Union of Somnar & Creation of the Somnar Hive
Expansion and Ardaya Conflicts
Major Worlds
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 Somnar |
Edana |
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