"Quadrants" vs "Sectors"

[vasvary5050]

A question occurred to me this morning. I apologise in advance as this one may seem nit-picky, and its purely a matter of semantics, and it doesn't really affect the game play at all, but it does conclude with a suggestion so I thought I would post it here.

The question: why are the system nodes in ST:F referred to as quadrants. According to the Star Trader wiki, "Quadrants are large areas of space under Faction control, connected to each other via Hyperwarp Gates." 

However, by dictionary definition, isn't a quadrant a quarter of a larger area (usually a circle in day-to-day use, though I don't think the shape is so important as it being an area split into 4 areas of similar size). So just to give an example where the term quadrant is used a lot, in Star Trek our galaxy, the Milky Way, is split into the Alpha, Beta, Delta and Gamma quadrants (4 quarters of the galaxy). I don't think the quadrants in ST:F have any sense of being quarters of something, or having 4 parts, so shouldn't they just be called something like "sectors" or "systems" rather than "quadrants"? So, in summary, my suggestion is that quadrants should be renamed to something like sectors. I should add that I don't know if the label "quadrant" is deeply embedded in the lore (in which of course leave it as it is) or if it is something easily changed. To be honest, I don't think it matters if you change it or not, but it just seems odd (though that being said, I've been playing the game for a while now and this only just occurred to me now).

[Cory Trese]

When you're building a world you want to establish a unique nomenclature. We certainly won't be changing any of the core words used in a game like Star Traders -- rather difficult to make that type of edit on something with 10 years of history and multiple novels

[vasvary5050]

I understand (which is why at the end I asked if "quadrant" was embedded in the lore (and by extension, nomenclature). Being new to the Star Trader universe I wasn't sure if quadrant was just a term recently used or established. The English language is full of words whose original meaning has changed or been extended.

[Brutus Aurelius]

The Star Traders don't have a shared history with us. I always took their use of the word "quadrant" to be a result of that differing culture and linguistic styling.

[fallen]

Long-established term.

[cerseisadvocate]

It dosen't even need different linguistics just the (thoretical wrong) use of historically grown terms. Perhaps the first time a pice of the void was structured and parted it was actually parted in four pices so the therm quadrant was appropriated. Later the word was still used for a sector even though the partition didn't fit the linguistic meaning. The word might even descent from the pre spacefaring time of humanity where the world might have been parted by four powerblocks reffered to as quadrants.
A simple example for something like this is the drinking straw which is usually made from plastics nowerdays but still keeps its name.