Unregistered Entity

Summary
An Unregistered Entity is any Detached, planet, solar system, galaxy, universe, universe cluster or multiverse region that has not been named and cataloged by the Watchers since The First Rebellion.

Criteria
What it means for an entity to be named or cataloged generally depends on the entity.

A named planet is simply a planet that has a confirmed agreed upon universal name. A cataloged planet is one that is available for any Detached governed by the Watchers to study, visit or live in.

A planet cannot be named except by inhabitants of that planet. If a thorough investigation proves that there are no human inhabitants, there is a chain of responsibility through which different individuals are granted naming rights if the person above them in the chain is otherwise unable to give a name.

To catalog a planet, it's required that the planet still exists. If it does, any Detached or Watcher can request the right to make a sponsored surveying visit to the planet to gather firsthand data about its peoples, flora and fauna. When the surveyor returns and submits a report, the planet is cataloged and no longer unregistered.

Unregistered Planet
By nature, unregistered planets typically are not even listed in the Watcher databases. However sometimes a Detached from an Unregistered Universe is found by a Watcher. When that person is finally registered in the databases, their planet is listed as a named planet, but cannot be cataloged because it no longer exists. This is the case with the planet Earth, among other examples.

Another way a planet can be known but unregistered is if a survey report on the planet is submitted to the Watcher database, but deemed classified. Because this information is not publicly available, the planet is not considered cataloged.

Unregistered Universe
Universes are subject to less strict guidelines for naming and cataloging compared to planets.

To catalog a universe, you simply have to provide a firsthand report that the universe has human life in it. To name the universe, you simply have to show that it is not already named in the Watcher database. The person to discover a universe is given primary universal naming rights.

Other Unregistered Entities
Though there has been a fair amount of support for the concept of Watchers registering entire animals species, there has been little progress made in that direction. Archivist Velsana Thi has been quoted in an email interview as saying "The Watchers protect people, not pets."