Frontier Guide
The Frontier is an unsettled open area of space spanning 150 million cubic light years and containing more than 300 thousand star systems. Of those, only about 125 thousand have been catalogued and explored, and only 40 thousand are inhabited. It is estimated that another 100 thousand star systems in the Frontier contain habitable worlds and are ready for colonization and exploitation.
The Frontier is an ungoverned, lawless region. Many of the remote habitable worlds are claimed by multiple governments, but the worlds are too remote to enforce the claims or establish governmental services. This lawlessness has made the Frontier a haven for pirates, criminals, exiles, and megacorporations, free from the restraints of laws and regulations.
The Federation maintains several strategic bases on Frontier worlds to serve as remote Fleet stations and for troop garrisons to deter Imperial agression. Law in the Frontier is represented by the Rangers who randomly patrol from star system to star system and respond to requests for aid.
Beyond the Frontier is the vast unexplored regions of the galaxy, hidden by obscuring dust and dark matter. The Explorer Corps are continually pushing back the boundaries of the Frontier in the name of exploration and science.