Triangulum Galaxy

"Where did we go so wrong? Every week something terrible happens in this galaxy; Insurgencies, planned offensives, counter-strikes, border conflicts, or just plain old-fashioned wars. When will this madness end?!"

- Empress Vaera Faendras II reflects on the state of the Triangulum Galaxy.

The Triangulum Galaxy is an unbarred spiral galaxy located approximately 2.70 million light-years away from the Milky Way Galaxy. With a diameter of about 60,000 light-years and home to 40 billion stars, the Triangulum galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. Triangulum is classified as unbarred, but an analysis of the galaxy shape shows what may be a weak bar-like structure about the galactic nucleus, an H II region, although the galactic core of the Triangulum Galaxy does not appear to contain a supermassive black hole.

The Teyan Dominion holds political dominance of the Triangulum Galaxy with the fall of the prior-dominant and now-defunct Pelx-Cradonian Mandate. As the galaxy's foremost political, military and economic power, the Teyan Dominion has become a hegemonic superpower over its still-expanding sphere of influence, having come to claim the Mandate's prior technological superiority to leverage against its enemies. Much of the galaxy's political sphere is now painted by the various relations with the teyan state that its polities have.

The Triangulum Galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and is also its only unbarred spiral galaxy. It is believed that the Triangulum galaxy has had past interactions with the Andromeda galaxy between 2 to 8 billion years ago, and is expected to have another, more violent interaction with its astronomical neighbour in another 2.5 billion years.