Small Magellanic Cloud

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  • Nearby galactic companion to the Milky Way
    • Approximately 200,000 ly away
  • Also known as
    • Elaysian: The Minor Outlier (TTN Novel: The Red King)
    • Romulan: Enhaire (TTN Novel: The Red King)
  • 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)
      • However, intelligent life first emerged in the Small Magellanic Cloud billions of years earlier than the emergence of humans (TTN Novel: The Red King)
  • Located in a divot of low subspace potential (Novel: The Buried Age; TTN Novel: The Red King)

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See also