the
Marcab Confederacy: various planets united into a very
vast civilization which has come forward up through the last 200,000 years, formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. It is located in the
area of the
Big Dipper (the
group of seven
stars in the constellation Ursa
Major (Great
Bear),
thought of as being arranged in the shape of a dipper) in this
particular galaxy.
—PDC 2 Approved Glossary