Mbili

Mbili is a region of the rimward side of the Deras grid of the Andromeda Galaxy; it is about 126 light-years across, containing roughly 2500 stars. Mbili is characterised by the fact that the number of life-bearing planets in the region is above the galactic average; as a result, there is also a higher number of sapient species in the region, and two native spacefaring civilisations. Also, the region is home to three independent matrioshka brains, the descendants of far-advanced civilisations which are now incomprehensible to regular sapients. Perhaps most remarkably, there is a third spacefaring civilisation, roughly in the centre of the Mbili region, which was founded relatively recently by a seedship from the Mitaa Region.

Civilisations

 * Zambarau Concord Mbili - Founded 47 years ago by a seedship, the Zambarau Concord Mbili has expanded extremely quickly, inadvertently causing disruption to the nearby native civilisations of the Mbili region. Other civilisations fear that, at its current rate of consumption, the Zambarau Concord Mbili could burn itself out in an environmental disaster of interstellar proportions, declining just as quickly as it emerged.
 * Khoikapek - The Khoikapek are the least developed spacefaring species in the Mbili region. They are also the civilisation that has received the most disruption from the nearby Zambarau Concord Mbili, and have deflected several alleged attacks from the Zambarau Concord Mbili during the Great War, despite being significantly more developed than their alleged attackers.
 * Aurora - The Aurorans evolved on a superhabitable planet, and have expanded significantly into the Mbili region, inhabiting more solar systems than even the Zambarau Concord Mbili, despite being significantly less developed. The Aurorans have diplomatic contact with the Khoikapek, though communication is difficult as the Zambarau Concord Mbili is in between the Auroran and Khoikapek civilisations.
 * Matrioshka Brains - If unavoidable, approach with extreme caution.