Sector Organization

According to the offices of the Astra Cartographica, the agreed upon thickness of the galactic plane is roughly 1,000 lightyears, the median point of which is essentially on-level with the mega-gravitational forces exerted by the revolutions of His cosmic design. The Mare lies at the lowest point of the plane, with its highest point--the Tectonian sun--just 540 lightyears from the galactic median. The lowest explored point in the sector, the Bloodsoak Nebula, lies over 800 lightyears from the galactic median, sunk within the Ketamo Deep. Beyond this lies the vast outer dark of ultimate space, the trackless void of interstellar space.

It is no mistake that the sector bears the epithet “the Low Stars”. Because of its unique position and relative galactic verticality, each of the Mare’s sub-sectors are organized in descending order. Movement from one Sub-Sector to the next is done by sinking or ascending through the differing “layers” of the Mare.

Much like a hive city is in microcosm, the Mare is in macrocosm--the higher the sub-sector, the more stable and wealthy it is. The lower, the more lawless, desperate, and misbegotten its worlds and populace are likely to be.