Species

The Galaxy is inhabited by numerous races, most of them citizens of their own usually eponymous nations, though some are uplifted species that have been intergrated into larger, older nations

Assembly Races
Main Article: Galactic Assembly

The races of the multinational alliance called the Galactic Assembly occupy the Middle Ring of the galaxy, 40,000 to 60,000 light years from the galactic core.

Full Members

 * Gox: Ixaran Directorate - Technocratic Aristocracy
 * Novarian: Democratic Novarian Republic - Unitary Republic
 * Akurani:The Disseminule - Gestalt Consciousness
 * Vetahri and Rovotahri: Greater Tahr Commonwealth - Unitary Republuc
 * Human: United Gaian Federation - Federal Republic
 * Rishin: Children of Rahanna - Nomadic Tribes

Notable Associates

 * Lithric: No sovereign state. Integrated into the Ixaran Directorate
 * Vogron Pol: Volhan Industries - Mercantile Conglomerate

Outer Ring Races
Main Article: The Outer Ring

The territories from 60,000 lightyears from the core onward are poorly charted by the nations of the Cosmic Assembly. Latest estimates predict that there may be hundreds of sapient, spacefaring species that live in the Outer Ring, but to date, only the following have been encountered


 * Finuan and Kroll: Kuriji-ji Cartel - Criminal Syndicate
 * Iziran: Iziran Organism - Gestalt Consciousness
 * Human: Terminus Coalition - Military Junta