Ieldra2 wrote...
Nice work with that map. I'll leave it to others to correct or add details, but I can't refrain from mentioning one thing:
The concept of a continuous territory doesn't really apply to Citadel civilization. About 1% of all stars are explored, and the relay hubs are spread out all over the galaxy, which means that Citadel civilization, meaning the set of settled worlds connected by the known part of the mass relay network, consists of bubbles of space around mass relays, separated by great expanses of unknown space. Around each extends a sphere with a number of settled worlds that can be reached in a reasonable time by regular FTL.
Likewise, when we speak of regions like "The Attican Traverse", they
aren't really continuous regions of space but groups of these "bubbles"
held together by a defineable substructure of the relay network.
These of corse have to be kept in mind, but, as I say, it's not actually a star map, but a map of the "Reaper Farm Transit System"
Sovereign said something to the effect of deveolping "along the paths we desire", so it stands to reason, that the Reapers put the relays around not in a chaotic manner, but in a systematic manner. So there must be main lines, "thoroughfares" for the organic raffic, "back street" areas, and a few dead ends.
The "Zones of Control" of course do not include every star system, but rather all active MR hubs and legs within them, which does constitute continous "territories", which are called Citadel Space, Alliance Space, Terminus Systems, etc. IF anything, each of those "dark" regions that haven't been accessed yet is more likely to be eventually accessed by the power that controls the MR hubs in the respective region's proximity.
Ieldra2 wrote...
All that also means that the expanse of unknown space, covering 99% of the galaxy, could easily contain another Civilization of equal or greater size than Citadel Civilization, without anyone knowing of it. The only reason why that appears unlikely, and why can reasonably assume Citadel Civilization is, if not the only but the biggest conglomerate of worlds settled by intelligent species, is that the Reapers target it instead of something else. Or maybe it does exist and the Reapers target everything at once...
That's a nice theory, and something like that, is, in fact, mentioned in the Codex, I believe.
But in any case, to the Citadel civilization it's like a parrallel universe, or another dimension... Quite irrelevant so far.
Ieldra2 wrote...
This isn't meant to invalidate or criticize the map, but something to keep in mind when reading it.
Yeah...
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