The Small Magellanic Cloud

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy. It is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy. It has a diameter of about 7,000 light-years and contains several hundred million stars. It has a total mass of approximately 7 billion times the mass of the Sun.

Some speculate that the SMC was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular.It contains a central bar structure.

At a distance of about 200,000 light-years, it is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors.

It forms a pair with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which lies a further 20 degrees to the east. The Small Magellanic Cloud is a member of the Local Group.

While the Large Magellanic Cloud teems with life and is almost completley controlled by the Attikan Commonwealth (Union Member). No  space faring society has yet to be discovered in the SMC.[2] The SMC Survey Project established 4 research and survey bases in the SMC. Several sentient speices have been discovered but the most advanced of them was TL D. (See Sentient Speices of the SMC) Dozens of garden worlds  and worlds that could easily be colonized have been discovered. Six Union Colonies have been established in the SMC so far (Colonies of the SMC) In 5022 contact with the Ence is made. The Ence are not native to the SMC but come from the Sculptor Galaxy.