Size of the SW Galaxy

A Million Worlds

Several sources have described the Galactic Empire at its height as controlling approximately a million worlds. Using this information and scaling in accordance with data on the Chommell sector, one can obtain some startling data.

'[Naboo is the capital of] 36 full-member worlds and more than 40,000 settled dependencies, and 300,000,000 barren stars.' This single sentence provides a basis for this analysis. Assuming that this is a typical sector (admittedly a large assumption) and that these figures are a typical ratio across the galaxy (also a large assumption, but perhaps more valid from our limited perspective), these figures give us slightly more than a trillion (1,081,081,081) colonies and 8.1E12 stars in the Galactic Empire.

This figure for stars is significantly larger than that for the Milky Way, and may suggest the larger size of the Galaxy Far Far Away, as well as the complete cataloging of 'brown dwarf' type objects and other stellar bodies.