27. Space-time anomaly

Maybe you've heard rumours, or maybe you were pulled slightly off-course by a heavy but invisible celestial object. Now that you're here, there's nothing to see... until the stars suddenly shift in a small patch of sky before your eyes. There is a disk-shaped hole in the sky and beyond it, some other place, very far away. 

Type: Anomaly

Function: Unkown 

Power source: Void 

Gravity: Exerts the equivalent of a dense asteroid, disturbs the trajectories of nerby objects

Size: About a hundred meters across 

Affiliation: None

Population: None

Sells: Nothing 

Buys: None


There is a worm-hole like anomaly here, yet undiscovered by corporations and states. It leads to a point in space millions of light-years away. This point is not even situated in a galaxy, but in the mind-boggling void between them. The few "stars" that are dimly visible are in fact distant galaxies.


There seems to be absolutely nothing in that place on the other side, not even a way to determine how far away it is. The hole could be used as a hiding place, perhaps by establishing a station on the other side, or sold to some organization for study.


And perhaps there is something on the other side after all...

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