Editing DragonStar5E.Setting (section)

=== Regions of Space ===
When one talks about the regions of space in the DragonStar Empire there are basically four “areas”. 

The '''Core Worlds''', made up of several hundred inner core worlds that are fairly close together and all developed space flight and advanced technology about the same time. 

The '''Expanse''' or '''The Colonies''' as they are often called include several thousand worlds surrounding the Core Worlds were the Grand Alliance settled over the course of millennia. This region is often split into three sub-regions: the '''''Inner Expanse''''', the '''''Mid Expanse''''' and the '''''Outer Expanse'''''. 

'''Wild Space''' is a generic term for all space past the Outer Expanse Worlds region, where not only does one find the Great Ork Khanate but also the home of hundreds of small pocket kingdoms and independent planets an untold uncivilized world. Wild Space is simply a term that those within the Empire call anything outside the Empire. 

Finally there is the '''Dark Nebula''', a vast region of space centered towards the Galactic Core where thick stellar dust has formed or gathered that blocks most sensors and augury and the Mind Flayers have their own dark empire.

When speaking of “directions” in space, the people of the DragonStar use towards the galactic central-bulge as ''“northward”'' (or ''“coreward”''), while towards the outer spiral arms as ''“southward”'' (or ''“spineward”''). East and west (''Eastward'' and ''Westward'' respectively) then are in relations to these locations as one would for planetary directions.