Look, I need to be honest with you right from the start. When I first decided to build a galaxy for my sci-fi series, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. None. I'm not a physicist. I'm not an astronomer. I once googled "how many stars are in a galaxy" and immediately regretted it because the answer made my brain feel like it was melting. But here's the thing about worldbuilding that nobody warns you about: it's less about knowing everything and more about knowing what
