SYSTEMA: The Greater Vandyrian Empire
What appears before us is the furthest extent of retained Imperial mapping, compressed until regions spanning innumerable galaxies can be perceived as a single coherent structure. The chart is accurate, but it is not resolved; vast transitional regions collapse into apparent boundaries, galaxies become points, and entire civilizations disappear beneath the limits of representation. At this scale, the Greater Vandyrian Empire must be understood as an abstraction.
Greater detail is obtained through successive levels of resolution. Each mapped region may be examined independently, revealing the galactic structures, stellar territories, systems, and inhabited worlds concealed within the greater abstraction. Nothing has been removed from the Empire before us. It has merely been compressed by scale.
To understand the Greater Vandyrian Empire, then, we must proceed inward.
