Aquiritis



Aquiritis is a Galaxy of which neighbors the Milky Way. It is obscured by the Horsehead Nebula in the milky way, which if it was not in the way of view, aquiritis would be fully visible from earth due to how bright it is. Aquiritis would strangely look green if revealed from Earth, despite being more of a orangish red in actuality, possibly in relation to the mythological Green Star. The term "Aquiritian" refers to something from aquiritis. One of the most notable aspects of it is it's civilization's ongoing war between The Dah'kl Empire, and The Galactic Union. a rough estimate shows that Aquiritis has about 400 Thousand Septillion known, mapped & inhabited star systems, half of which is controlled by The Galactic Union, and the other half by The Dah'kl Empire, with there being, at the very least, over 500 Thousand Septillion stars in Aquiritis total, meaning that there is also many unknown and neutral space within the galaxy, and much more beyond what has already been said about Aquiritis. Aquiritis is older then the Milky Way (which is approximately 13.6 billion years old) by at least 5 Billion Years, thus making the argument that it might be 13.8 Billion years old (the same age as The Universe) as of now, since it would have to be subsequently comparable to the age of the universe. If such argument is correct, it would be the oldest still-existent galaxy, as it matches the universe's age.

In the center of it, there is a Supermassive Black Hole identified and named "Polybius", of which the same amount of materials as billions of stars reside within it, except crammed into one. When many materials are to be sent into or near the black hole, they become some of the brightest objects in the universe.

Galaxy Type
Originally, aquiritis was thought by those who reside within it to be a barred spiral galaxy, however it was later revealed to actually be a Elliptical Galaxy. Elliptical Galaxies are very old galaxies, stretched out in a circular, ellipse-like shape vaguely resembling that of a egg's, mostly consisting of older red stars without much dust and gasses. Due to this, very few new stars actually are created in elliptical galaxies as per the lack of components, however they have trillions of older stars in that place.

Early Culture
Not much is known of what Aquiritis was like early in it's existence, but it's thought that most of the star systems and star clusters remain from it's youthful years. Some Exceptions include the Shammae Cluster, which mostly comprised of younger stars, though had some very old ones scattered inconsistently. It is known The Designer has visited Aquiritis in the distant past, enough so that it created The A'or'i, a being who has all-knowingness of everything in aquiritis - it's beings, culture, what things are made of, and more - and the designer itself was so prominent in aquiritis that eventually, those who reside on a now-destroyed planet known as Hely Prime began religious worship based off it's likeness, making various paintings, statues, architecture, and more. Ic'thaiombrest seems to have decent knowledge on this culture, whose  planet was reduced to practically molten slag in a orbital bombardment by order of  Dah'kl, enough to perfectly recreate it's society. The true, original society of hely prime, however, died in some sort of Civil War - no information is available as to what caused this civil war, other then it happened way before Dah'kl even existed via being 3 Millennia prior, and that the civilization was completely wiped out by themselves in such war. Salnos, the last remaining member of the otherwise-extinct Xisi species and creator of the Guardian Monsters with ties to The Designer, is possibly another entity who existed early on in aquiritis' lifepsan. It may also come from another Galaxy however.

One of the most well preserved symbols from the earliest years of Aquiritis is a emblem that was marked as "Polybius", interestingly however obviously the same name of Aquiritis' center black hole. It is unknown what it truly means and who or what made it, but it's thought to have the association of representing Aquiritis as a whole.