Milky Way

The Milky Way, as it is known to humans, is the galaxy in which Shattered Stars takes place. The Milky Way is a fairly large barred spiral galaxy, roughly 120,000 light years in diameter. It is estimated to contain up to 400 billion stars, and hundreds of billions of planets. The Milky Way is itself located within the Local Group, a collection of multiple neighboring galaxies, all of which are too far to reach with current technology. The Local Group isn't where the chain ends, either; it is part of the Virgo Supercluster.