Background- and continuum-subtracted, merged Chandra maps of the soft plasma, the hard plasma, and the reflection components in the Sgr A MC complex region centered on the nominal IXPE pointing (shown from left to right). The images are smoothed using a 3 pixel Gaussian kernel. The color bar displayed on the bottom has adimensional units because the images are normalized to the maximum value. The regions shown in the solid circles are the MC considered for IXPE simulations (i.e., MC2, Bridge B2, Bridge E, and G0.11-0.11). A dashed circle having the size of the IXPE PSF is shown for comparison. The direction to Sgr A* is indicated with a dashed arrow.