Andromedan Reserve

Spanning several thousand light years, the Andromedan Reserve is a protected region within the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, and is the central point of the Orion Cluster. This region is of particular interest to the local species due to the rich abundance of ancient ruins from what is believed to be an intergalactic species, whom left behind a network of FTL gates that connect distant stars together. While outdated various small technologies were discovered and still being discovered, that helped spark reverse engineering booms amongst the new empires. It cannot be determined who exactly the civilization was, or where they had come from, the general consensus is that they hailed from the closest neighboring galaxy of Andromeda. This conclusion stems from the lack of visual depictions of the species and a mostly singular level of technology, which rivaled that of the most advanced species of the Milky Way.

Though not wholly uncommon for the Uzalia to migrate deeper within the galaxy, there has been an extraordinarily high number of remains found scattered throughout the reserve. The lifecycle of the Uzalia suggests that they transit between the Milky Way and Andromeda, leading to two hypothetical scenarios, either the Andromedan's traveled on the backs of these massive creatures, or they were tools for placing long range transmitters or gravity beacons.