Galactic Center

The Galactic Center - also sometimes called the Deep Core or Heart of the Spiral - is the geographical center of the Great Spiral. It is the smallest region in the galaxy, about seven thousand light years across, and is said to hide unusual worlds, only a handful of which are populated.

The Deep Core is home to about 25 billion of the galaxy's oldest stars, and at its center is an immense supermassive black hole known as the Well of Infinity or Sagittarius-A. In some areas around the Well, stars are in such proximity to one another that they are separated by a span of only a hundredth of a light year. Due to the gravitational pull of the vast number of stars and the prominence of dark matter concentrations, local space-time is severely warped, making superluminal travel difficult at best.

There have long been rumors that a space station known only as Citadel Station, built and maintained by the Galactic Consilium, can be found here. The Consilium has made no responses to commentaries about its alleged existence.