A Solarcentric starmap used primarily by Solar traders
The Galaxy, formally known as The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy dominated by 2 arms wrapping off of the central bar of stars. The Galaxy is the only known source of material life and is inhabited by numerous different intelligent races creating the Galactic Community.
Structure
The Galaxy is roughly 87,400 Light Years (26.8 Kiloparsecs) as well as 1,000 ly thick. While The Galaxy contains over 200 billion stars, only roughly 20 systems are accessible by the Corridor System rendering most systems inaccessible to all but the most dedicated of explorers. The Galaxy also contains ~20,000 nebulae with 2 of them being connected to the Corridor System, namely the Sidexa Veil and Pleiades Nebula.
All official starmaps depict The Galaxy from a top down view using angle of longitude based from the galactic center (0=North, 180=South, 270=East, 90=West).