SWC Galaxy Map
Trade Route Layout

 

Method

Description of the map will begin, to use a clock metaphor, at the two o'clock position and will proceed counterclockwise.  After exploring the Core Worlds, the areas from the Colonies to the edge of the Outer Rim will be "slices" largely described by lines representing the major trade route "spokes" reaching out into the galaxy from the Core.  First, the Core will be examined, moving from the Inner Core to the Outer along each major spoke, then the areas between spokes, then the next spoke.  Then, the regions will be filled in from the Core to the Rim, following the same spoke-to-spoke movement.

 

Basic Orientation:  Trade Route Spokes

The spokes extending out of the Core include:

 

The Galactic Core

Coruscant's Trade Routes

The Corellian Run Trade Route

The Perlemian Trade Route and other Ringali Shell features

The Hydian Way Trade Route

The Rimma Trade Route

 

The Slice

Properly, the Slice begins in the Colonies and extends only to the edge of the Mid-Rim, but the associated Outer Rim routes and areas will be included with it.  It is described on the clockwise side by the Corellian Run, and on the counterclockwise by the Perlemian.

The Colonies

The Inner Rim

The Expansion Region

The Mid-Rim

The Outer Rim

 

The Gordian Reach

This slice, reaching from the Colonies to the Mid-Rim, starts at the Perlemian and continues counterclockwise to just past the Hydian Way.  However, due to the newly defined nature of the slice after the Gordian Reach (the Borderlands;  see below), the border of this area will move not far clockwise of the Hydian Way before or early in the Mid-Rim.

The Colonies

The Inner Rim

The Expansion Region

The Mid-Rim

The Outer Rim

 

The Borderlands

Primarily interesting as a slice during the current conflict, the Borderlands largely follows the twisting courses of the Hydian Way Trade Route and the Rimma Trade Route.  They Hydian Way is properly contained in the Gordian Reach, but it proves to be the fringe of both areas up to the Mid-Rim.  The Borderlands have recently been redefined as the center of an extremely high proportion of the fighting between the New Republic and the Second Imperium.

The Colonies

The Inner Rim

The Expansion Region

The Mid-Rim

The Outer Rim

 

Leisure Corridor / Fragments from the Rim

The Colonies

The Inner Rim

The Expansion Region

The Mid-Rim

The Outer Rim

 

Currently Unplaced

  1. Ado Spine

  2. Alui Corridor
  3. Celanon Spur
  4. Death Wind Corridor
  5. Entralla Route
  6. Essien Run
  7. Gamor Run
  8. Gevarno Loop
  9. GG734
  10. GH972
  11. Hyabb-Twith Corridor (not necessarily a trade route)
  12. Keller's Void (not necessarily a trade route)
  13. Kessel Run
  14. Listehol Run
  15. Manda-Roon Merchant Route
  16. Myto's Arrow (abondoned route)
  17. Nanth'ri Trade Route
  18. Rishi Maze (is it a trade route?)
  19. Sanrafsix Corridor
  20. Sharlissian Trade Corridor
  21. Solenbaren Merchant Route
  22. Terr'skiar Pass
  23. Thesme Trace
  24. Trax Tube (galactic trade route, almost certainly an unplaced Spoke route)
  25. Trellen Trade Route
  26. Widek Bypass