I think its about time that everyone collectively decides at least where and how the forum verse
Here we can all talk about how we think it should work, then take the things we agree upon and apply it, this wont be about time line, i believe that Walt should suggest that to us and from there we will try to decide how many days,weeks,month, or years go by per day.
Here's my idea
within the Forumverses there are a unlimited number of galaxies, however not all can be seen or are discoverer until a faction is known to occupies such galaxies, each galaxy holds up to 20 faction slots (min can be decided upon) each galaxy size is still to be debated upon but i think maybe a bit bigger then the Milky way yet smaller than Andromeda, each galaxy within the forum verse has jump points at the edge of them which allows travail to other local galaxies, each galaxy can be given their own name by each occupant, however there should be universal name for each galaxy ie if i live in a galaxy i may call it the Blue spiral Galaxy, however to another faction they may call it the Red Armed galaxy, however the universal name of it would be G01 (Galaxy 01).
As for other factions like mine where we live within our own universe we must build jump gates within these galaxies and can only have a few gates, each gate will act as a outpost as we would not be allowed to colonies said galaxies, we also would have a limited number of ships allowed at each outpost, including during war times, if a Fourmverse empire were to successfully take control of a gate they are allowed to use it and go to your universe, within that universe you are only allowed to have a limited number of grading ships at that gate and neighboring systems until the enemy empire has a decent holding in a few systems, upon a agreed time appropriate use of military ships will be allowed (Rules on War) . Of course this is all open to change and debate, and this will also hopefully bring back the maps that we had however we need to come together as a community to decide upon all of this.