Spacial Phenomenon

Within the setting are strange and exotic events - both witnessed first hand and recorded with the use of quantum telescopes. Some are noted here, including their suspected causes and effects.

• Entropic Sinkhole - Events where the order of things is unusually high or low in ways conventionally non-predictable. Believed to be caused by m-brane penetration caused by interaction with another universe and the extraction of energy from space - either leaking or sucked out into the void. In these locations, zero point energy sources do not function predictably or reliably.
• Golden Tree - A massive polar gas structure, the gas-streams of the nebula, high speed collision and shock-fronts superheat the nebula's hydrogen and nitrogen atoms into a brilliant golden plasma, spreading like supersonic roots or branches at both sides with the star itself hidden by a dusty band toward one side resembling a ground plain. It is thought that in a thousand years, the nebula may emerge into a fully developed planetary nebula, like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.
• Fury - A massive red nebulae, within its heart a central star. It contains a failed planetoid cluster, a failed planetary nebulae turned gas giant and a protoplanetary nebula formed into a high density planetoid. Its twin pulsars orbit a strange figure 8 orbit.
• Maelstrom - Areas with such highly disrupted 'choppy' space that any attempt to cross using faster-than-light travel techniques results in an object falling out of FTL, often catastrophically - creating un-crossable 'deadzones'. Primarily a natural phenomena, research is underway into the creation of artificial maelstrom.
• White Rift Expanse - Spanning almost 20 lightyears, the white expanse is a large nebulae where conventional rules of spacetime seemingly dissolve and space itself becomes unstable. Very little is known about it.
• Red Tide - So named because of redshift phenomena: Distorted space where the velocity and angle of light is altered passing through it. Can render telescopic readings, charting techniques and communications unreliable or even unusable. Red Tide makes mapping space particularly difficult.
• Brinicle - Occurring in areas with extremely low entropy, brinicle are dimensional shadows of electromagnetism, allowing light in limited form and accuracy to cross between different dimensions.
• Wormholes - spherical holes in spacetime that allow an object to enter at one point and emerge at another, taking a shortcut through upper dimensional space. While some are natural in origin, others are artificial in nature.