Independent Outlying Nations

The Independent Outlying Nations, or IONs, are nations located outside of the busy populated rest of the republic. Their systems, though not formally banded together, line the major arms of the Milky Way galaxy.

Confusing Terminology
The IONs go by many different names. The ION term does not specify a specific region, nor does it specify a political entity, thus the confusion. Many nations, republics, and empires within the conventional ION scope choose different labels for the galaxy than the UR, the UGN, or the OA, though all three Super States, again, have different naming conventions as well.

Thus, in the end, there is no way to distinguish which nations are part of the ION, and which are not. And what the correct name is for this group of nations, and the region itself.

ION naming
There are several names used for ION:
 * Terminal Outlying Republics (TOR)
 * Emergent Republic Outsiders (EROS)
 * Spiral Independent Nations (SIN)