Wild Space

The area of known space not belonging to any civilisation, Wild space is a huge, chaotic expanse filled with enough stars, planets and colonies to house every being in the galaxy with room to spare. Unfortunately, this makes wide-spread governance impossible, and the large proportion is a lawless and dangerous place. Due to these factors, Wild space is often used by governments and large groups within the civilised parts of space as a testing ground for all kinds of things that are not legal in their own systems.

Government
While attempts have been made before, no group has ever managed to exert control over a meaningfull proportion of Wild space, always falling to either smaller groups or simple lack of resources. The civilisation that could be said to have the closest grip on Wild space would have to be the Pyrians, as few colonies reach the stage where they are no longer reliant on outside trade before dsiaster befalls them. This means that instead of creating Pyrian colonies, which would be against the spirit of the republic, traders and centres of trade are "sponsored" by the republic in return for a percentage fee.

Species
As Wild space is surrounded on all sides by the other civilisations, it is by no means rare for small groups or colonies from the larger groups to abandon their homes in exchange for the chance to live free from oppression. As a result, groups of most species remain in wild space, although Cyph colonies are decidedly uncommon.