History
The L.G.L.M.D.T Galaxy
672 million 845 star systems, 834 billion 978 planets: the imperial census of the galaxy, and the tiny place the Norya Belt occupies within it.
L.G.L.M.D.T — “the finest galaxy of them all” — is the galaxy in which the whole story of the Codex unfolds. The Arazians have kept its census for millennia, and the figures they publish are the only ones every people accepts.
The imperial census
The great census of Oravaya Prime gives two numbers, revised each generation:
- 672 million 845 star systems
- 834 billion 978 planets
In other words, the galaxy averages a little over twelve hundred planets per star system. Some systems hold only one; others, like the Tulmara Cluster, line up several thousand.
Where the Norya Belt stands
Set against those figures, the Norya Belt — the sector of Araze, Karn-Tor IX and Éclaira — is nothing: one star system out of 672 million. The whole history of the Three Worlds, every Arazian war, the entire Empire, fit inside a dot that would not show on a map of the galaxy.
It is an argument the Cyborgs enjoy putting to the Arazians, and one the Arazians hate to hear.
The other systems
Beyond Norya, the Codex so far records only five systems explored in detail: Vandoria, Velmyre, Kressal, Zaharim and the Tulmara Cluster. That is where Sayop lies, the most populated world in the galaxy, along with twenty other worlds belonging neither to the Arazian Empire nor to the Cyborg dominion.
The remaining 672 million systems have, for the most part, never received a visit. The Empire lives with that: it keeps a map, not a territory.