Greetings Exalted ones, after the resounding success of our first dev diary (our secret sources tell us that not only two but actually three people read them!) It's finally time to delve into Star Wars Legacy of the Old Republic again. This Dev Diary will be focused on the Empires inside the galaxy.

The galaxy can be split into multiple sectors, like for example the Deep Core, the Galactic Core, the Inner Rim & the Outer Rim. Inside the Inner Rim & Deep Core you can find the core members of the future Galactic Republic.

Obviously a couple of other empires inhabit this region of space such as the Kuat Aristocracy or the Ahto High Council. Both of them are a bit special but more on that in later diaries. If we expand into the Inner Rim a handful of empires like for example the isolationist Covenant of Togruta or the downright criminal Czerka Corporation. Furthermore we have the primal Hsskor Dominion, the old Empire of the Trandoshan species as well as others like the Theocracy of Onderon, an old Sith sect.

If we move further towards the edge of the galaxy we find harsher environments, occupied by empires that are more ruthless and are less diplomatically oriented. This region of the galaxy is inhabited by the glorious Hutt Empire and the clans of Mandalore.

On the very edge of the galaxy you can find some of the most dangerous empires. This part of the galaxy is home to the remnants of Xim’s empire in the form of the Tionese Hegemony. The Sith, after having fled Korriban, have started quietly rebuilding on Dromund Kaas, under their new leader. 

Besides those empires there exist a bubble of the unknown, a chaos so to speak of different species and unstable hyperlanes. On the very west of the galaxy is the Chaos otherwise known as the Unknown Regions. Since not many empires inside this secluded area of the galaxy are known we took a bit of creative liberty and some aspects from the recent Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy to fill out this area.

Obviously that's not every Empire between Coruscant and Dromund Kaas, many species reside inside the Star Wars galaxy and with roughly 36 playable Empires we have most of the important ones. 

Yet not every Empire grew out of the fall of the Rakatan Civilization. Ancient species & primal evils are rooted into this galaxy, ready to consume whomever approaches them.