The Kepler Empire was one of the closest habitable regions to the Galactic core on the south side of the Galactic Plane, leaving them one border largely free of threats, now that Comor had been brought on board, but they still faced great threats from their immediate neighbors, as well as threats from those further distant, who would cross the no man's land of the galactic core to look for new planets and resources.
To their east sat the Eagle and Trifid Empires, both of them were human territories named after the ancient words for their Home region. Both had formed near a nebula, for the abundance of resources, while the Cygnus Empire was named after a black hole that marked the outward southern border of their territory.
