Yaka Empire Territory Map

[KojanHigh Admiral (CIR)]

Simply a map depicting the territory held by the Yaka Empire (and that taken away by the Plague Virus). Includes markers for the locations of major planets.

[ForgeRecruit (No Affiliation)]

One small problem...You take up almost enough room for one quadrant, several thousand lightyears across. The United Federation and the PCG's terriotry is only a few hundred. All of the events of teh PCG verse with the Klingons, Romulans, Yor, ETX, Cor Redor, MSI, Borg, Spectres, etcetera, all happen in much less than one.

[Dino27Captain (PCG)]

^^^ One what? Quadrant? I think that alien (of many factions) territory runs across several quadrants... and depending on whose doorstep we're fighting, that will determine whether it's part of one quadrant or most three...

Yaka might need to exist in an alternate dimension in order to take up that much space... so would the Martian Empire as their capital is WELL within Fed space.

[KojanHigh Admiral (CIR)]

Dang, I forgot to add this to the above, so I'll add it down here: Only about 10% of the star systems in Imperial territory have been explored, due to pirate activity, university funding, or a multitude of other causes. As such, while A vast section of space has been "claimed", and is put on the map as Imperial space, little has been explored, and even less settled.

This is comparable to "Citadel Space" in the Mass Effect Universe. The area under "Council Control" takes up about 1/2 of the galaxy, but only 1% has been explored. Federation, Borg, Yor Collective, and the various other factions/races have plenty of room in the galaxy to expand to. Some humans of other factions, such as the PCG and Federation, have also settled on planets within the Empire's "borders". It's much more of a "soft" boundary than a "hard" one.

[ForgeRecruit (No Affiliation)]

That makes more sense, though even your soft boundry is well away from any empires that border the Federation. I wonder how you came into contact with us?

[KojanHigh Admiral (CIR)]

Like I've said before, the Yaka Empire was originally a larger corporation on Earth. When they began extra-solar surveying, they sent out thousands of probes into the less-explored regions of space. Yakaium was found on the planet that is now called Civitas Imperiosus, which became the Empire's capital when the corporation grew in power enough to form its own nation. Basically, we didn't come into contact with you; for a while, we WERE you.

[Andre TholvelCEO]

Good thing I don't care about borders-- Daragon Incorporated is spread across EVERY world.

[ForgeRecruit (No Affiliation)]

You do realize how long it would take to traverse those borders don't you?

[KojanHigh Admiral (CIR)]

That's the purpose of FTL drives.

[ForgeRecruit (No Affiliation)]

Ahem, for the Voyager, at warp 9 on average, it was projected to take about 75 years to travel from the Delta Quadrant (specifically a point located approximitly mirrored to your planet Falsestead) back to Earth (near the Beta/Alpha quadrant dividing line). The actual time was shorter due to various shortcuts, such as wormholes and such (and basically, the directors not wanting to have their characters die before they could finish the series. ). but still, to have a feasible communication and traveling system, your empire either needs something more than just another FTL drive (phase, warp, transwarp, wave motion, hyperdrive, transwarp, whatever), or it needs to be smaller.

[KojanHigh Admiral (CIR)]

All of the Yaka Empire's ships use Phase Drives to travel at FTL speeds, instead of using Warp drives. The ships can move faster, but must have more and/or bigger power cores to power the ships, which can, at times, serve as a disadvantage.

Like I said, less than 10% of the territory has been explored, less than 1% actually settled, and about 25% has fallen to the Plague virus, so the territory isn't THAT big.

[ForgeRecruit (No Affiliation)]

It is in that you still have large distances to cover to get from Falsestead to Midway, whether it's settled or not. Just curious, how fast can youget from Falsetead to Midway? Cause even getting there in 10 years is moving at quite a pace, even for faster than warp.

[KojanHigh Admiral (CIR)]

We can't. The Falsestead territory has been cut off from the rest of the Empire, but they're holding their own. There are no phase lanes that reach from anywhere in the Empire through empty space to that area; not even wormholes. As I said in my Midway post, Midway contains the only available phase lane to the "outer" Imperial territories. Nobody can get there without trying to navigate Plague territory.

[ForgeRecruit (No Affiliation)]

Okay, Plague aside. Or I guess Pre-plague, how long did it take to get from Falsestead to Midway. Or how long does it take to get from Midway to Earth?

[KojanHigh Admiral (CIR)]

If you were to go from Civitas Imperiosus to Earth, it would take about a year. In extremely extended situations like that, the crew enter cryo-pods to sleep the journey away, and the ship's AI takes over navigation. From Midway to Falsestead in Pre-Plague times, it would take about two months to get there.

[ForgeRecruit (No Affiliation)]

MMmmmk, well that's quite fast (I need to calcualte just how fast, since warp is exponential, meaning warp 3 isn't 3 times as fast as warp 1). But why is Civitas Imperiosus to Earth a year when Falsestead to Midway 2 months, they're about teh same distance.

[KojanHigh Admiral (CIR)]

The phase lanes between Midway and Falsestead are a lot less mangled and less confusing. This is unlike the fastest route between Civitas and Earth.

[ForgeRecruit (No Affiliation)]

So I take it phase lanes need to be very clear of debris? (more-so than needed for warp?) Or do they need special sub-space conditions like transwarp lanes?

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