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Jar Wattinree wrote:

1): an ancient network of hyperspace gates that link to a subspace tunnel network that links to every single star in the Milky Way galaxy and to a quadrillion more locations with no stars in them because this is a Milky Way galaxy reduced down to one Galactic arm due to... an accident of invasion. Oh, yeah, they can be reverse-engineered, but it's difficult to do.

1a); Also know what's rad? You can potentially use these gates to fire literal Death Star-blasts at planets using the gate-network, so hook up a gate to a Dyson sphere designed to weaponize solar output and wherever your gate network extends you have unlimited control over the galaxy.

2): ships that can use the aforementioned subspace network to travel by themselves, usually a lot less precise than if using a gate, but can take weeks to months. The power requirements are so large that fleets have to use carrier ships to go anywhere and justifies using the naval analogue and, of course, fighter ships for other reason.

3): intergalactic travel is basically impossible because these subspace tunnels do not extend that far out by themselves so you're stuck at ordinary relativistic speeds.

So, basically, you have the equivalent of Xyston-class Star Destroyers -- everything scaled up, so you have bridge windows that look cathedral sized and cavernous rooms that are not supposed to be cavernous. Which, arguably, fits the Imperium... but wow.