Regions, Sectors & Systems

No world exists in isolation. Planets and moons belong to star systems; systems lie within larger sectors and regions; and those larger areas help determine which worlds are connected by travel, trade, politics, conflict, migration, and shared history.

The Systems, Sectors & Regions archive provides the wider geographic context surrounding individual StarForgeRP locations. Use these entries to understand where a world sits within the galaxy, what other places lie nearby, which powers or organizations operate across the surrounding area, and what circumstances may affect characters whose lives extend beyond a single planet.

For roleplay, larger geography is especially useful to travelers, military personnel, diplomats, traders, explorers, smugglers, mercenaries, intelligence operatives, and organizations whose activities regularly cross planetary boundaries.

Traditional Star Wars astrography divides much of the known galaxy into several broad regions extending outward from the galactic center. This geographic framework is well established in Legends material and remains useful for placing SWTOR-era worlds within their wider surroundings.

These names describe extremely large areas. They can suggest broad differences in accessibility, development, political importance, or distance from major centers of power, but they should not be used to assume that every world within a region shares the same government, culture, economy, or level of security.

• Deep Core — The innermost region surrounding the galactic center, distinct from the better-known Core Worlds.

• Core Worlds — One of the oldest and most politically significant areas of known galactic civilization, containing major worlds such as Coruscant, Corellia, and Alderaan.

• Colonies — The region between the Core Worlds and Inner Rim, associated with some of the earlier outward expansion from the Core.

• Inner Rim — A broad region between the Colonies and Expansion Region.

• Expansion Region — The region between the Inner Rim and Mid Rim, shaped heavily by successive periods of galactic expansion and development.

• Mid Rim — The region between the Expansion Region and Outer Rim Territories.

• Outer Rim Territories — A vast region containing everything from important population centers and established civilizations to isolated settlements, contested worlds, and sparsely explored space.

• Wild Space — A less consistently defined frontier beyond much of the established Outer Rim whose extent changed over galactic history.

• Unknown Regions — A poorly explored region primarily associated with galactic west beyond the Outer Rim. Its name does not mean the area is entirely uninhabited or unknown to everyone; localized civilizations and powers may possess far greater knowledge of it than the wider Republic or Empire.

Systems, sectors, and regions matter most when they create circumstances for characters rather than simply providing coordinates.

• Travel and access: Consider where a destination sits relative to other locations a character knows, which routes or transport networks may connect them, and whether the journey takes them through friendly, neutral, contested, or poorly charted space.

• Authority and jurisdiction: Political influence can change between neighboring systems. Republic, Imperial, Hutt, corporate, local, criminal, or independent authorities may each matter at different points in the same journey.

• Trade and supply: Regional connections can explain where food, fuel, equipment, information, luxury goods, weapons, medicine, or illicit cargo originate and where shortages or commercial opportunities might develop.

• Military and intelligence activity: Fleets, patrols, listening posts, supply routes, staging areas, and contested systems often matter at a scale larger than one planet.

• Movement and migration: Refugees, colonists, workers, soldiers, pilgrims, merchants, criminals, and travelers may develop connections to several worlds within the same wider area.

• Reputation and identity: A character's home region may influence what others assume about them, but geographic origin should provide context rather than dictate personality, loyalty, or culture.

• Persistent consequences: A campaign affecting shipping, security, political control, or infrastructure across several worlds may leave consequences that belong on a system, sector, or regional entry as well as on individual planet and Timeline pages.

Not every story needs a sector map, and not every location needs its own system entry.

Use a planet or moon page when the world itself provides the important context. Look to the wider system when several nearby celestial locations or orbital facilities matter together. Move outward to a sector or region when the story depends on relationships between multiple systems, regional politics, commerce, military activity, or travel across a broader area.

The Galactic Map can provide visual context, while individual Planets & Moons entries describe the worlds characters are most likely to experience directly.