Golden Branch Star Sector

The Golden Branch Basics
Also shortened to the Golden Branch, it is located at the forked path where the Perseus and Sagittarius arms of the Milky Way Galaxy come together.

Most of the Golden Branch is currently split between the control of two major factions: The Autonomous Diaspora and The People's Conglomerate of Orion. Counterweight and Weight, in the middle of Diasporatic and OriCon space, are jointly controlled by both factions with a newly appointed third party administration, the Consolidated Counterweight Technocracy.

The recent defeat of the Apostolosian Empire during the Golden War led to its significant loss of territory, but large populations of Apostolosian civilians still reside on many planets, such as Counterweight. The Galactic North of the Golden Branch is independent of OriCon, Diasporan, and Apostolosian control. Galactic West is controlled by the Diaspora, and Galactic East by OriCon.

History of the Golden Branch and the Golden War
REWRITE THIS UGH

-OriCon & diaspora originated on earth

-APOSTOLOSIANS evolved from fish, native to golden branch

-summary of the golden war

Race, Gender, and Sexuality
In the Golden Star Sector, racism is overt with regards to the nationality of different factions, as they are sovreign nations with a long history of conflict. A war has just ended. Apostolos is very unpopular, and OriCon and the Diaspora jockey for power in their new Cold War. Many citizens of all of these political entities do not want a ceasefire, or to get along.

The racial identities of Earth do not apply here. It is a long way away from Earth and too far removed to truly matter in the context of what race is on Earth. Race is important in cyberpunk for a lot of reasons however, and the Earth equivalent racial identities of the inhabitants of the Golden Branch are varied.

Gender is a nonissue. While all societies have backwater conservatives, the gender binary as it exists in Oricon and the Diaspora as mutable. Being genderqueer or otherwise nonbinary is not strange or frowned upon. Sexuality is similarly a non issue. While Apostolosians may be referred to with gendered pronouns by non-Apostolosians, it is correct to user gender neutral ones as biological sex assigned at birth is irrelevant to Apostolosian gender identity.

Diasporan Territory
Coral

Garden

Gemm

Glimmer

Sage

Sagilia

Slate

Slighter

Vox

Wreathe

Oricon Territory
Archonic

Ionias

Joypark

Kaffe

Kalliope

Minverva XII

September

Tetrakal

Vyshe

Independent Systems in the Galactic North
Apostolos

Kesh

Torru

Zaalhaut

Ziishe