Information

The Milky Way Galaxy is a spiral galaxy which is roughly 100,000 light years in diameter and is divided into four quadrants (α, β, γ, δ), defined by two meridian passing through the galactic core. Containing over 400 billion stars, only 23.25 out of 1,000,000 planets found in those star systems support intelligent life, which may develop a civilisation.

By double-clicking inside the blue boxes you're able to load more detailed maps of the highlighted area, which include:

• The Gamma Quadrant
• Local Space

Locations

Political Powers

Navigation

The map can be navigated in numerous ways and is divided in three sections:

• Inside the Map Section the map is displayed, you can directly navigate using your mouse. The click-events depend on the selected tool in the Navigation Control and in the lower left corner the current scale is displayed.
  
  
• On the right side of the map, the Navigation Control can be found. By using the pan and zoom buttons you can navigate the map and your position will be displayed inside an overview map, which can also be used to change your location accordingly.
  The following tools with various mouse-events for the map are available:
  
  
  

  Distance calculation

  

  ZoomBox

  

  Panning

  

  What's here?

  
  
  The selected tool will be highlighted and a short description inside the results-area of the Search Section will appear. Some tools may also display their findings in this area.
  It's also possible to open the map key which can be extended with political information or the information-slide.
  
  
• The Search Section is right above the Map and the Navigation Control and will allow you to search for locations inside this map (enter at least two characters). For a complete search inside all maps at once you can use the global search.
  The results will be displayed below the input field, on mouse-over a blinking indicator will illustrate the location's position in the more distant zoom-levels (The indicator won't appear in the two closest zoom-levels!). By clicking on the location of your choice the map will automatically center to the corresponding coordinates and zoom in. For additional information you can select the -icon and if you wish to browse all locations you can visit the locations-page inside the information-slide.

Map Key