Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda - The Commonwealth 

Officially there known as Three "Tri-Galaxies" The Milky Way, Andromeda , Triangulum Galaxy, Large and Small Magellan Clouds are the only ones I'm aware of officially being part of the old Commonwealth but the High Guard had conducted missions as far away as Messier 86 about 66 million light years away from Earth in the show (a shade under 52 million in real life.)

Thanks for clearing this up. I only remembered hearing "Three Galaxies" and the names "Andromeda", "Milky Way", & "Triangulum". But it has been awhile since I've watched a large majority of the episodes.

@@MacsLore Your welcome, I read somewhere that each big galaxy in the lore (Milky Way, Andromeda, Triangulum) has two smaller dwarf galaxy's (i.e. Magellanic Clouds) next too it hence the term "Tri-Galaxies" but characters in the show would use the term "three galaxies" and "tri-galaxies" interchangeably, so your not wrong.

I love Andromeda, but for "really out there" you should look into Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict.

And then Kevin Sorbo became executive producer and as frequently happens when principle actors become EPs, everything goes sideways because he can't stop retconning things to stroke his own ego

@@weldonwin its one of the reasons Keith hamilton cobb gave as his reason for leaving. That he was turning it into the "kevin sorbo power hour"

@@thedinochromecommand I think by the end of it, Dilan Hunt was literally a Demi-God, created by Ancient Interdimensional beings to save creation

@@weldonwin SPACE JESUS!

@@weldonwin wasn't just him, shows rarely ever continue to be good past their second season. Also writer's change as well

Yeah, I viewed the first 2 seasons and a few episodes of season 3 as watchable, after that, no.

Careful editing helped out way more then I care to admit lol

I was afraid this day would come. So I guess it's time to come clean: I....have never actually watched Babylon 5. I'd have to do some serious binging/reading before I'd feel comfortable talking about anything in that universe.

@@MacsLore You must! If you are a fan of Sci-Fi, it is an absolute must watch! :)

I think a lesson can be learned from real life. >trained highly Doesn't mean trained rightly. They can have plenty of hours training. But you fight how you train. And if they treat every training like its a game they're forced to play than they'll suck at fighting. >3-6 galaxies worth of manpower and economy I think because of those the commonwealth would find its supply lines limited. Imagine needing to care for hundreds of different sapient races within a single armada. Bringing resources from different countries to their forces can be difficult. But there's another issue with a diverse military. The fact is each alien race will have its social bias, and its own capabilities. Some aliens will do better than others. In a merit based system this can cause issues. But the military is as much of a political creature as civilian organizations, and is just as prone to nepotism. The highguard could have suffered from a case of various officers putting their and a select few men's lives over the existence of the nation, and result in all sorts of ceasers and napoleons within the ranks carving out their own battalions of yes men willing to lie to upper command about training abilities and supplies. Resulting in a force that projects the idea of strength with nice management and kind (to their bootlickers) leaders. But lacking actual spirit and strong leadership necessary for conflict.

Training is not always enough - especially if you are trained for something different from what you encounter. IRL example : US military was trained to fight other armies prior to Sept 11. After that, they had to start training for asymmetrical warfare in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Although the prior training is not totally wasted, you will not be as prepared when you are encountering something different.

There is also the issue of there being a literal Dark Lord behind all of this, the evil power behind the Magog, that had been manipulating events and priming the six Galaxies for their invasion

i believe the necheizans at that point took to the Highguarc like a duck to water. It state that the Commonwealth wanted to disband the highguards. it was the Nicheztian who did most of the fighting during the Magog war. So when the betrayal happened. An Execute order 66 happened. the mass majority of Necheztian who was serving on board the Highguard ships slaughtered their crew mates and captain. That right there cripple the Highguard response who then proceeded to sow futher chaos by assassinating the Empress. The Tarn Vedran freaked out and cut themselves off from the war giving no guidance to their commonwealth and thus you now have choas. The kicker is there were loyal nitcheztian but they were all painted with rhe same brush. So by the time the high guard could effectively fight back many of the commonwealth members had noped out of said commonwealth and look to themselves.

It was just the three galaxies. To original bible had it that the the Milky Way, Andromeda and the greater Maagnalic (Sp) Cloud were the commonwealth. Then it was a show started by using Roddenberry’s notes.

@@LionlordEbonfire you are partially correct dude. It ended up being the 'Three Galaxies', but originally the Commonwealth (which was preceeded by the Vedran Empire) actually spanned 6 Galaxies. Those 3 Galaxies being the Andromeda, Milky Way, and Triangulum Galaxies. So my original question was just exactly what happened to the OTHER 3 Galaxies that made up the initial 6 Galaxies? And contrary to what some people have said, Slipstream travel to those other unnamed 3 Galaxies was NOT severed by 'The Fall/Long Night'. Those 3 Galaxies became ignored BEFORE the time of Dylan Hunt. An example is how after being pulled from the Black Hole Dylan told Rommie "The Commonwealth spanned 3 Galaxies". So again, just EXACTLY what happened to the OTHER 3 Galaxies, and when did they suddenly disappear?

@@reedallen4613 Actually I am just telling you what I recall from the original web page that accompanied the series. if you have another source it may be different but I only ever recall the 3 Galaxies being mentioned. That said after Sorbo took total control I did not watch it nearly as much and the webpage was not updated . A lot got messed up when that happened. Like the original show runner left and his final story was left incomplete and a lot of issues occurred because Sorbo's new show runner never had a better idea.

I originally did it based on upload order at the time (I didn't go by the Compendium order). I'll switch it around to the right order.

@@MacsLore Oh, good to know thanks for the info!

that because they fired the showrunner during early season 2 and went complete other direction that fell flat, that show runner wrote what his ending would be it called coda, google for it you find it, its so much better then the tv show ending

@@sword4005 I'll do that . Nice one.

It was ridiculous to destroy Earth 🌎! A better ending would have been for humans to defeat the Nietzscheans, rendering their philosophy self defeating, like Nazism.

See the comment I made shortly after I uploaded the video about the number of galaxies which I've recently pinned. As well as Marcus Drake's explanation in response to it.

Yeah because feminism is always better under all circumstances. Viva la difference.

Nah. Sounds cringe and unoriginal. Dime a dozen these days.

Andromeda is the greatest show ever