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