By AARON SKETCHLEY (aaronsketch@HOTdelete_thisMAIL.com)

Macross Locations

Refer to the Sol System for an idea of the shear number and variety of objects in a star system.

Maps

• Milkyway Galaxy
• Milkyway Galaxy Core
• Unified Government's known territories

• Explanation of the Map of the nified Government's known territories Map
• Exploration
• Education in the UNG and the Formation of Dissident Groups
• Trade, Education, and the Growth of the Decline of the UNG

Local Bubble

Sector 1 - The Core of the UNG

Sector 2

Sector 3

Sector 5

Sector 6

Noteable locations: Rock 387, Pregas 2 (Iota), BCTC, Dorta, Whade, the Bell Cluster

Sector 7

Sector 8

Sector 15

Sector 19

Sector 20

Orion-Cygnus Arm (local spur) - beyond the UNG's borders

434 light years; Polaris

• is a multiple star.
  • Alpha UMi A
    • 6 solar masses.
    • an F7 bright giant (II) or supergiant (Ib).
  • Alpha UMi B
    • 1.5 solar masses.
    • an F3V main sequence star
    • orbits at 2,400 AU
  • Alpha UMi Ab
    • 1.5 solar masses.
    • dwarf star
    • orbits at 18.5 AU.
  • Alpha UMi C
  • Alpha UMi D

640 light years; Betelgeuse

• is the second brightest star in the constellation Orion and the tenth brightest star in the nighttime sky.
• is a red supergiant star, one of the physically largest stars known. If it was placed at the center of our Solar System, the Earth would be engulfed and would be inside it.
• Its proximity to Earth, combined with its enormous size, make it the star with the third largest angular diameter as viewed from Earth.

700 light years; Helix Nebula (NGC 7293)

• Is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth - 650 light-years from Sol.
• Is a planetary nebula created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. The outer gases of the star expelled into space appear from our vantage point as if we are looking down a helix. The remnant central stellar core, destined to become a white dwarf star, glows in light so energetic that it causes the previously expelled gas to fluoresce.

1,550 light years; Deneb

• is the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus and one of the brightest stars in the night sky, with apparent magnitude 1.25.
• about 1,600 to 3,200 light years from Sol.
• It appears to have a diameter about 200 to 300 times that of the Sun; if placed at the center of our Solar System, Deneb would extend to the orbit of the Earth. It is one of the largest stars known.
• Deneb IV - habitable planet orbiting the star.

5,000 light years; Boomerang Nebula

• 5,000 light-years away from Sol.
• The nebula is at 1º kelvin - the coldest place known outside a laboratory.
• The Boomerang Nebula is formed from the outflow of gas from a star at its core. The gas is moving outwards at a speed of about 600,000 km/h and expanding rapidly as it moves out into space. This expansion is the cause of the nebula's very low temperature. It is believed that the nebula is a star or stellar system evolving toward the planetary nebula phase.

7,200 light years frol Sol: Globular Cluster M4

• From Earth, appears about the same size as the Moon in the sky which, given its distance, yield a spatial dimension of some 75 light years across.
• is a rather loosely concentrated cluster of stars that measures 75 light years across.
• At least 43 variable stars have been observed within M4.

7,500~8,000 light years; Eta Carina Nebula

• a very large (100-150 times as much mass as the Sun) and bright (about four million times that of the Sun) luminous blue variable (LBV) star located about 7,500 light-years from Earth.
• The star is surrounded by a large, bright nebula, known as the Eta Carinae Nebula, the Keyhole Nebula, or NGC 3372.
• As of July 2005, Eta Car is the 5^th most luminous star yet discovered, and still the most massive.
• Mylene Flare Jenius, the 7th child of Maximilian and Milia Fallyna Jenius, born onboard the space carrier Red Moon in flight near the Nebula, 2031.02.02.

8,000 light years from Sol: Mz3 (Menzel 3, AKA: Ant Nebula)

• a planetary nebula of unknown size and distance from Sol.
• a complex system composed of three nested pairs of bipolar lobes and an equatorial ellipse. Its lobes all share the same axis of symmetry but each have very different morphologies and opening angles. It is an unusual PN in that it is believed, by some researchers, to contain a symbiotic binary at its center.

Perseus Arm

Carina-Sagittarius Arm (towards the galactic center)

Noteable locations: Elysium

12,400 light years PSR B1620-26

• PSR B1620-26 is a neutron star pulsar.
• PSR B1620-26b is a white dwarf companion to the pulsar primary, it has a mass of 0.34 solar mass. These stars orbit each other at a distance of 1 AU about once every half year.
• PSR B1620-26c Methuselah
  • is a planet orbitting the primary and secondary in a circumbinary orbit. This makes the system the only triple system radio pulsar, and the only triple system in a globular cluster known thus far.
  • has a mass of 2.5 times that of Jupiter, is in an orbit similar to that of Uranus around the Sun, but slightly larger; PSR B1620-26c orbits at a distance of 23 AU (3.4 Tm). Each orbit of the planet takes about 100 years.
  • it is likely that PSR B1620-26c is also about 12.7 billion years old. This is much older than any other known planet, and nearly three times as old as Earth.
• The triple system is just outside the core of the globular cluster. The age of the cluster has been estimated to be about 12.7 billion years. Hence this is the age estimate for the birth of the planet, and two stars.

Norma Arm

Milky Way Galactic Centre

Near the Galactic Center

Noteable locations: Baroota 3198XE, Gaul 4, Rax, M55NGC6909 Planetary Cluster, Vajra Homeworld, Zola

Sector M183-92

Noteable locations: Avarmore VII, Estuary, Fechin, Fordast, Potekar, Teradai (M-15 Fleet), Vaylan-Fianthas

25,000 light years from Sol: Pistol Star

• is 10 million times as bright as the Sun and about 100 times as massive.
• It is located approximately 25,000 light years from Earth in the direction of Sagittarius, near the center of the Milky Way.

30,000 to 49,000 light years LBV 1806-20

• Measured at over 130 times the mass of the sun (Sol) and is near the core of the Milky Way Galaxy.

• 1st Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Megaroad 01): launched 2012.09; Milky Way Galaxy Center, communications ceased from fleet in 2016.
• 2nd Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Megaroad 02): launched 2014.
• 3rd Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Megaroad 03): launched 2014.
• 13th Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Megaroad 13): launched 2019; successfully emigrates to Baroota in 2025.
• 24th Super Long Range Emigration Fleet: under construction Megaroad 24 destroyed in Earth orbit when the Factory Satellite dock explodes.
• 25th Super Long Range Emigration Fleet: under construction Megaroad 25 destroyed in Earth orbit when the Factory Satellite dock explodes.
• 28th Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Megaroad 28): successfully emigrates in 2034; Location Unknown
• 31st Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross 1): launched 2030.09.
• 33rd Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross 3): residence of Therese Jenius & her husband.
• 35th Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross 5): emigrates to Planet Raks in 2045.09; destroyed 2045.09.
• 37th Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross 7): launched 2038; last seen in deep space (near the planet Zola?), 2047.
• 39th Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross 9): location of Macross Generation; 2047.
• 41st Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross 11): location of Fire Bomber American; last seen in deep space; 2059
• 43rd Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross 13): Battle 13 defeated at Earth orbit, 2051.02.14.
• 45th Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross 15): launched 204?; last seen in Sector M183-92, in Teradai IV orbit, 2051.
• 51st Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross 21 Galaxy): launched 10 years prior to the Frontier Fleet; last seen, heavily damaged, in orbit of the Vajra Homeworld; 2059.09.02.
• 55th Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross 25 Frontier): launched 10 years after the Galaxy Fleet; colonized the Vajra Homeworld; 2059.09.02.
• unknown Super Long Range Emigration Fleet (Macross Olympia): located near Macross Frontier and Galaxy fleets in the 2050s, and assisted in the development of the VF-25 from 2053 to 2057.09.

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