It depends if you are in the general area of the Orion Spur and Pegasus Arm (AKA: "The Powderkeg Stars, named so due to the entire region being one big galactic war in the making)

or on the Scumtum-Centaurus Arm (AKA: Lonely Stars and Space Squid-Whales, named so due to the only other factions in the region are Newsun/Silux's leviathan race and ASTA's soon to be empire of ancient astronaut or former colony ship warped into wormhole and sent to other side of the galaxy, humans)

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Alternatively you could pick a completely different arm, like the Outer Arm, Norma Arm or Sagittarius Arm

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EDIT:
[quote]45 degrees South East[/quote]

That puts you on the further out end of the Scumtum-Centaurus Arm, So you are too far away from me to have contacted you, more likely you have met Newsun and ASTA's people though