Amadeus Prime Galaxy

AMADEUS PRIME GALAXY / HALT CLUSTER
Of the 11 habited planets (Amadeus, Baliss, Ramsis, Anot, Gerrasine, Rudderbin, Xander, Setron, Orth, Farran and Foreiss) and 4 habited moons (Parron II, Sedd, Marni and Siddon) of the Halt Cluster, 12 are united under the flag of the Amadeus Republic (Amadeus, Baliss, Ramsis, Gerrasine, Rudderbin, Xander, Orth, Farran, Foreiss, Parron II, Marni and Siddon).

The other 3 (Anot, Setron and Sedd) are self-governing sovereign worlds. These ‘fringe’ worlds have limited representation within the Amadeus Republic.

There are also 7 initially uninhabited bodies with permanent colonies that are overseen by the Amadeus Republic but are looked at as politically independent.

The Halt Cluster itself contains 945 stars and spans a total radius of 710 light years, of which the Planet Amadeus is 71 light years from its center. All of the stars in the cluster have been generally visited and researched, and of the 290 possibly habitable planetary bodies discovered, 15 have contained intelligent life, 65 only lower life, and 139 containing only microbial life of some kind. Most of the worlds so far discovered to have intelligent life exist on a relatively flat plane within the cluster.

In reality the Halt Cluster is today not a true ‘star cluster’ by scientific definition, but still is today a highly populated area of densely grouped middle to old age main sequence yellow stars. A group of stars that are clustered about each other in a localized region due to a once stronger gravitational connection that today is too small to permanently keep individual stars in the Halt Cluster from ‘wandering’.

The Halt Cluster is part of the Prime galaxy and it slowly orbits the galactic center nestled between two of its nondescript galactic arms, midway between the center and the outer visible edge of the galactic disk. Due to the current state of Space Folding technologies and the inherent distance limitations with that limited mode of transportation, the distance to worlds outside of the immediate cluster family (beyond 1000 light years approximately) are still ‘beyond reasonable reach’ for exploration, but new technologies and innovations are well into development to expand this range, and allow travel for the first time outside of the Halt Cluster region to discover new worlds.