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The Nacellan Passages is an area of wild space within the region of the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy's Upsilon Roarke Field within the Charter's Fringe, rediscovered by Captain Nacellan, a Free Trader of the Bellar Company. The area contains bountiful Phasing Lanes for starships; a prime target for the hundreds of pirate fleets within wildspace. Many of its star systems lack interstellar infrastructure with the exception of a few pockets, with only starports and cities ruled over by star lords. Many of its planetary civilizations are not capable of interstellar travel, with only a few polities and pockets of industrial civilizations capable of trading with the interstellar economy. The region also contains the Pink Pulsar, the Soromex Black Hole, and most of all, the Flowering Rift, a Sphase Rift ressembling a flower.

Suxan Spiral

The Suxan Spiral is the topmost region of the Nacellan Passages, located below the galactic plane. From its four star systems, one can gain access to the rest of the region via Phasing Lanes if one enters from the galactic plane. Various space stations owned by various groups flourished due to its economically advantageous position. Suxen's Phase Lanes leads to the other three stars of Hypher, Dikanor, and Starfarn, and the red giant of Zalekh Vssa below it.

Star Systems:

Suxen

Hypher

Dikanor

Starfarn

Thaxan Stream

The Thaxan Stream is a continous Phasing Lane consisting of ten stars including the local "Pink Pulsar", a pulsar with an unnatural pink color. The lane splits into the two lanes leading to Teaven and the Pink Pulsar, and the Thedede binary star system. The Phase Lane is notably "faster" than average Phase Lanes, coursing through Sphase with half of the relative time compared to average travel time. However, due to its high traffic, the entry and exit points between stars are always swarming with pirates, battling with local patrols of rival star lords that rule sections of its star systems. It's Pilfer Lane, a segment of the continuous lane, is notorious for the frequency of its Sphase raids.

Star Systems:

Kee Gun're

Carp

Zalekh Vssa

Sopon

Kthax Tax

Arteller

Eryn

Thedede

Teaven

The "Pink Pulsar"

Atoll Isana

Atoll Isana is a "atoll" of seven stars in proximity with each other, with easy travel with each other's stars. Hundreds of groups, from nations to pirate fleets continuously struggle for supremacy over contested regions of space. It's primary lanes are junctions that gives access to the rest of the region.

Star Systems:

Parathunax

Isan Stars

Me'leos

Thex Alme

Teyvom Lom

Usavn

Awn

Tybellusian Dominion

The polity of Tybellus, first established by a Free Trader by the name of Skallian Tybellus on the planet Ayre Prime had expanded their empire into three stars: Tybellus Prime, Major, and Minor. Tributary nations on each planet are taxed a portion of their resources to the greater empire of three stars in exchange for the Tybellusian Dynasty's patrol fleets to protect the lanes of independent nations and organizations of the three systems. The unhabited star system Mikell is also considered as the first-claimed property of the Dominion due to the presence of its mining enclaves in its moons and planets.

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Star Systems:

Tybellus Prime

Tybellus Major

Tybellus Minor

Mikell

Crimelan Empire

The Empire of Crimela is ruled by its royal families that are based in the core worlds of its three star systems. The proximity of its three star systems: Crimela Alpha, Beta, and Gamma, lessened the burdens of interstellar governance. The three star systems are a junction for Phasing Lanes that gives access to the relative western part of the region's Y-plane and the chart's 3rd Quadrant.

Star Systems:

Crimela Alpha

Crimela Beta

Crimela Gamma

Extant Trail

The Extant Trail is a group of stars that are within an extensive Phasing Lane, beginning from Soromex Actual or Crimela Alpha. The lane splits towards the star systems of Extant Tarus or Vicatanto. It is notorious for the nomadic fleet civilizations that live in its star systems: some even creating small empires of relay stations on and off planets. Notably, the Soromex's Black Hole is used by expert star-pilots from the nearby stars to use its gravity to propel themselves faster in sub-light speed.

Star Systems

Soromex Actual

Yvenray

Uemonos

Rexte

Reenter

Jakevicwez

Orbal

Extant Tarus

Tusts Warrens

The warrens of Phasing Lanes between its stars in the same plane makes it a prime target for pirates. Many of its star systems are partially ruled by star lords, fighting the local authorities of their worlds. The stars within the subregion was rediscovered by the probes from the Tus Tust star system, hence its eventual name. From the lowermost star system of Farn, one can access the Scarn Stars, another region of wild space below the Passages. Most of the Warrens' worlds are unhabited or less-habited even more so compared to the Passages' many worlds.

Star System

Tus Tust

Ruiners

Leysten

Derets

Sola Dice

Onbetm

Umerzt

Pexen

Farn

The Flowering Depths

The region was now named after the Flowering Rift, a Sphase Rift that resembled a blooming flower of cosmic dust and the energies of the other dimension, unleashing Sphase Storms that had even reached the Isan Stars. It had altered the stars and planets light years around its radius, causing billions of deaths and unleashing otherworldly Shifters. Additionally, World Seeds of the Yggradisilan Growth had grown in the worlds of the Rten star system, producing more Seeds to space to infest more worlds as they drift through space. Its star systems are considered as good as dead, and travel to and from the Depths is highly discouraged, lest they get devoured by creatures beyond reality and corrupt the rest. Without a united fleet that can repel the threat, the Depths remains "quarantined".

Star Systems:

The "Red Eye"

Tahm

Kaltz

Aent

Rten