Small Magellanic Cloud
- Nearby galactic companion to the Milky Way
- Approximately 200,000 ly away
- Irregular galaxy with estimated diameter of 7000 ly
- Formerly barred spiral
- Structure disrupted through gravitational interaction with the Milky Way
- Much of galaxy saturated with hard radiation from central singularity (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Much less inhabited than Milky Way as a result (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Class M worlds much less common (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Much less inhabited than Milky Way as a result (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Known to Elaysian astronomers as the Minor Outlier (TTN Novel: The Red King)
- Located in a divot of low subspace potential (Novel: The Buried Age; TTN Novel: The Red King)
- Interspatial fissures forming in the proximity of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants tend to connect here as a result (Novel: The Buried Age; TTN Novel: The Red King)