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All Roads Lead to Bedlam...
The Bedlam Galaxy is the hub of the Laniakea galactic supercluster. It is a super-spiral galaxy containing more than ten-thousand star systems in the region of space once known to humanity as the Great Attractor.
Both its human classification and its galactic colloquial counterpart come from the same source, a trinary of gravitationally bound super-massive black holes known collectively as the Trigon; Titaan, Krayken, and Draygus, at the galactic center. It is widely believed that this stellar anomaly is the reason that Bedlam is the endpoint of every known wormhole in the supercluster, but no-one is quite sure how.
For humanity's part, the privatization of space travel in the 21st century and the commissioning of the Elonin Lunar Spaceport drastically reduced the barrier to entry into space for the average citizen.
Accordingly, many ambitious humans took to the great expanse of the solar system to find their fortunes in the vast mineral wealth of the local asteroids and moons, and many great technological leaps followed in their wake in order to meet the needs of these pioneers.
Humanity spread to the rest of its nearby celestial neighbors within decades, placing down colonies and beginning the terraforming process on Mars, Venus, Europa, and Titan before moving on to less viable habitats and greater projects, such as the Solar Dyson Swarm.
Scientific exploration and resource surveying became popular fields for rising generations seeking their own place within the annals of history. It wasn’t long before missions ventured further afield and the first expedition to find the gravitational anomaly sometimes referred to as Planet X or Planet 9 was underway. To the great surprise of the expedition crew, however, what they found was not a hidden dark planet but rather a stable wormhole on a long elliptical orbit around the sun.
Their initial astonishment at that discovery soon became genuine shock when they discovered the body of a gravitationally locked male humanoid android floating in front of the vast accretion disc.
An android that smiled and waved to them as their ship approached.
After retrieving the android and warily opening the airlock to let him in, he promptly greeted them in perfect English:
“Welcome to the galaxy, guys! What took you so long?”