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Milky way Galaxy
The milky way galaxy is huge by any measurement.
It is a barred spiral galaxy some 30,000 to 35,000 parsecs in diameter and is, on average, about 300 parsecs thick.which contains about 350-400 billion stars. The Imperial Core is located within the disk, about 8000 parsecs away from the Galactic Center(The fastest imperial ship would take 5 1/2 years to get to the middle), on a spiral-shaped concentration of gas and dust called the Orion Arm. The stars in the inner 3,000 parsecs form a bulge and one or more bars that radiate from the bulge. The very center is marked by an intense radio source named Sagittarius A which is likely to be a supermassive black hole.
The area claimed by the Empire is about 1/4000 to 1/5000 of the total galactic volume depending on the cut off point in star density one wants to make.
Map of galaxy
With the area claimed by the empire marked in red
