Category:Sectors: Difference between revisions

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Cubic divisions of space 20 light-years to a side, used for quick identification
- Technically not precisely a cube, as "parallel" sides spinward and antispinward are actually portions of radial planes intersecting cylinder circumscribing the galaxy
  - Height and length (core-to-rim direction) defined as precisely 20 ly, but width (spin-to-antispin) defined such that breadth of sector 001 at midpoint is precisely 20 ly
  - Thus, sectors further rimward increasingly wider, sectors further coreword increasingly less wide
Given numeric identifiers generally corresponding to distance from core systems
- Sector system originated from [[Earth Starfleet] coordinate system; thus Sol used as origin point, identified at being within Sector 001
Often given informal verbal name as well
- Verbal name generally refers to most prominent star in a given region
Sectors further subdivided into sections (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
- 10 per sector, numbered rimward (sector 1) to coreward (sector 10)

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 * Cubic divisions of space 20 light-years to a side, used for quick identification
 ** Technically not precisely a cube, as "parallel" sides spinward and antispinward are actually portions of radial planes intersecting cylinder circumscribing the [[Milky Way galaxy|galaxy]]
-*** Height and length (core-to-rim direction) precisely 20 ly, but defined such that width (spin-to-antispin) of sector 001 at midpoint is precisely 20 ly
+*** Height and length (core-to-rim direction) defined as precisely 20 ly, but width (spin-to-antispin) defined such that breadth of sector 001 at midpoint is precisely 20 ly
 *** Thus, sectors further rimward increasingly wider, sectors further coreword increasingly less wide
 * Given numeric identifiers generally corresponding to distance from core systems