Underworld

The Underworld was the world between species-nations—the collective name for the space stations between planets; and also the bars, ports and warehouses frequented by people who regularly travelled between different species-nations' domains. Most of the Underworld was traders and profiteers, but it also included criminals, researchers, explorers, exiles, and people who provided licit and illicit services to the above, particularly bar staff, prostitutes, private detectives, hitmen and fixers. It emerged after around 400 AHE.

Ports and markets governed by the Central Galactic Congress were not part of the Underworld. The Dark Network was a small elite which effectively controlled the Underworld via a number of mafia-style organisations.