UEG Colonial Catalog

Beginning in the 2490s and ending just before the end of the century, the UEG Colonial Catalog was created as a final list of information of established colonies and colonial sectors after the end of major colonial projects in the late 25th Century.

The catalog is a collection of maps, slipspace routes, system trade routes and features the splitting and forming of multiple sectors of UEG space. Known as Sector Maps, they range from basic political maps, to resource maps, population maps, production maps and trade route maps. The catalog also goes hand-in-hand with the UEG Astronomical Catalog as a basis for mapping the star-systems of the colonies and organizing slipspace routes from system to system. There have been multiple attempts to merge the two catalogs into one massive set.

The Catalog
The catalog was first proposed in 2379 but was shot down when it was deemed that the system would crash during the continued rapid colonization and rapid development of the last 24th and early 25th centuries. Finally in 2489, board members and department executives from the Departments of Colonization, with support by other politicians as well as the Secretary of the Department of Energy. In 2490, the government accepted the request for the universal Colonial Catalog and work began immediately.

The men and women working on the catalog first worked on the division of colonies via sectors. Sol system was designated as the Interior, SOL or SOLSYS. Colonies outside the Sol system were then given the term, the Outer Colonies. This problem was quickly noticed as there were far too many colonies for one sector. The Outer Colonies were then split into three sectors, now dubbed the Inner, Border and Outer Colonies. The Border colonies were a region between the Inner and Outer colonies, they are also referred to as the Midway, Midpoint or Center colonies.

After this change, the Inner and Outer colonies were split again, dubbed the Inner/Outer for the Inner Colonies and Far/Frontier for the Outer Colonies. The move was seen by many as confusing or unnecessary by the media and many colonists agreed that it isn't needed. However, the addition was kept and the sector mapping continued with cataloging all known locations of colonies within this sectors.

By cataloging the colonies within these sectors, the project peaked at a number of six-hundred and six colonies in Sol, Inner and Outer combined. With the Outer Colonies having a much larger ratio of worlds under UEG control. Out of the six-hundred and six, four-hundred and fifty were located in the Outer Colonies.