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There are pages for many planets, and a species section, as well as history lessons by era.

Maps in the Atlas:
The Galaxy (generic dateless)
The Core
The Colonies
Galactic Population c. 25 ABY
The Inner Rim
The Expansion Region
The Mid Rim
Hutt Space
The Outer Rim
Client States and Miscellaneous Regions
The Rakata Empire c. 30,000-25,200 BBY
The Conquests of Xim the Despot 25,127-25,096 BBY
The Pre-Republic Galaxy c. 25,100 BBY
Origins of the Jedi (and other mystic traditions of the young Republic) c. 25,000-22,000 BBY
Galactic Explorations (basically a pre-Naboo timeline of such, most colorful map in the Atlas)
The Sith Empire c. 5,000 BBY
The Great Hyperspace War c. 5,000 BBY
The Great Sith War 4,000-3,996 BBY
The Jedi Civil War 3,959-3.956 BBY
The Mandalorian Wars 3,976-3,960 BBY
The Fall of the Republic 1,004-1,000 BBY
The Hapes Cluster
The Hydian Way c. 3,693 BBY
Sidious's Preparations 52-32 BBY
The Phantom Menace
The Fate of Outbound Flight
Tatooine, Geonosis and the Arkanis Sector
Attack of the Clones
The Clone Wars (2 maps)
Kashyyyk and Neighbors
Revenge of the Sith
Imperial Atrocities
The Adventures of Han Solo 14-0 BBY
The Centrality
The Corporate Sector
Missions Merciful and Otherwise 2-0 BBY
The Ultimate Power in the Universe 22 BBY-12 ABY
A New Hope
Yavin and the Gordian Reach
Famous Shadowports
Flashpoints in the Galactic Civil War 2 BBY-4 ABY
The Road to Kessel
The Spice Trade
Hoth and the Greater Javin
The Empire Strikes Back
Endor and the Moddell Sector
Inner Zuma Region (Side View)
Return of the Jedi
The Ssi-Ruuk and Nagai Invasions
The New Republic Advances 4-6 ABY
The Road to Coruscant 6-7 ABY
The Hunt for Zsinj 7-8 ABY
Campaigns After Zsinj's Death 8 ABY
Thrawn's Campaigns 9 ABY

Hey, thanks for your note. Sorry to hear of your disappointment. I won't argue with your logic, but Dan and I were bound by a large amount of Expanded Universe information, including numerous previous maps, that does indeed show unexplored territory within the galactic disk. Even if we had wanted to, we would not have been allowed to discard all this established information.

As for Jocasta, I think you're taking her a bit literally. She is emblematic of the arrogance and close-mindedness of the Jedi: Her blithe assurance that Kamino cannot exist is rapidly disproved by a galactic short-order cook.

At any rate, I'd hope you'd find a lot to like in the Atlas. But if our depiction of the Unknown Regions is enough to keep you away, that's understandable. Either way, appreciate the note.

Best,

Jason

Publius wrote:Mr Fry's assertion then is that Mme Jocasta is both monumentally incompetent and offensively stupid. The equivalent scenario would be to deny the existence of Bangkok because it does not appear in the Library of Congress.

VT-16 wrote:

Publius wrote:Mr Fry's assertion then is that Mme Jocasta is both monumentally incompetent and offensively stupid. The equivalent scenario would be to deny the existence of Bangkok because it does not appear in the Library of Congress.

Well, that is kinda the point of the scene itself.
They keep mentioning things they didn't want and had to include by mandate, so I can understand their frustration and excuses. Let's not forget the "scanner globe/auxiliary shield generator" inclusion in ITW:OT. These things happen.

VT-16 wrote:Basically, the "Unknown Regions" might simply be named as such due to a lack of anything of interest beyond the basest of automated mining opportunities.

Balrog wrote:Something that stood out was that the Empire's size went up; it's now IIRC 1.75 million member worlds and over 69 million non-member worlds.

One of the maps also shows galactic population density, average size of a Core world's population hovers between tens to hundreds of billions, with Coruscant and maybe one or two other planets above a trillion.

Unknown Regions still stand out and take up like a third of the galaxy, but the excuse seems to be primarily that there's some sort of permeable hyperspace barrier splitting the galaxy roughly half (one of the theories is that it was caused by the Rakata fighting the Celestials or something), as well as colonization being sporadic with no central planning. Sander's reply seems to show this was not something they were too happy about but had to comply with anyway, so I'm more forgiving about it.

Darth Hoth wrote: That is down rather considerably from earlier high-end WEG estimates (some of which spoke of the Empire controlling "billions" of worlds, years before AotC: ICS); if I recall correctly they even dumped the "51 millions" number from the original rulebook in the second edition and replaced it with something like "countless millions".

Of course, scratching the one-million number screws with Tarkin's dialogue in the film novelisation; rationalising with one million full member worlds and additional unenfranchised holdings made sense.

Is that a step up or down? On the one hand, this shows higher populations than is usually implied by most media. On the other, it now becomes that much more difficult to justify higher numbers, or to argue that Coruscant is not one giant anomaly.

Balrog wrote:Really? I've only ever heard that it was 1 million member + 50 dependencies, also based on old RPG books. Do you know which book mentions billions of worlds?

[i]Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game[/i], Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, p. 6, wrote:Before you can adventure in the galaxy, you better know something about it. First off, it's Big - the Empire rules billions of worlds.

[i]Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook[/i], page 74, wrote:The civilization of the Galactic Empire spans billions of stars, from Coruscant - the heart of the Empire - to remote Outer Rim worlds like Tatooine and Gall.

However, the population density only gives the average population of a planet within the colored area; you can still have trillion plus populations outside of Coruscant, but since they're lumped in with populations much lower that drags the average down. And the hundreds of billion coloring covered almost all of the Core and Colonies, which includes a hell of a lot of planets.