Intergalactic Summit

Greetings pilots. There seems to have been a change in the (paradoxically stable) violent wormhole left by Sansha Kuvakei's wormhole generating technology in the Promised Land system back in January YC 113. Unlike other wormholes which frequently appear throughout New Eden, this type of wormhole has been reported not to be traversable due to high exotic particle flux. Despite this inherent instability, massive fleets of Sansha Nation forces seem to be able to travel through these violent wormholes nearly at will (Madirmilire Log) (Rasile Log) (Oijamon Log), violating by orders of magnitude what we know of the mass limitations of unstable wormholes. The Promised Land wormhole in particular is atypically stable for unknown reasons: even in the time domain. While other wormholes do not tend to last more than a day, the Promised Land wormhole has lasted almost a year and a half with no signs of collapse. The only other documented wormhole which has shown this much persistence is in the very nearby New Eden system: the wormhole contained within the Eve Gate for over 15,000 years (since AD 8061).

Eve Gate (Image)

On June 28 YC 114, I voyaged to the Promised Land Wormhole to investigate its properties as part of Project Atlas's research on wormhole connections. Much to my surprise and delight, something had changed within the wormhole. The view visible through its event horizon had clarified significantly.

Promised Land Violent Wormhole (image)

A definitive sky could now be clearly seen through the aperture. There were almost no landmarks in the sky beyond the wormhole. The only feature was a well defined Zone of Avoidence outline. The degree of tilt of this galactic disk exactly matched the tilt of New Eden's galaxy, though reversed in orientation (exactly as one would expect when viewing a distant sky within our own galaxy through a wormhole). Given the apparent newness of Sansha's technology and the slow pace of moving high tech operations to disconnected systems, I concluded that it is quite possible that the wormhole exits within a star system inside the current stargate network.

After exhaustive cross referencing, it became clear that the sky seen through wormhole is, in fact, the sky of a region within the New Eden cluster. There are three regions whose skies are, like the wormhole's, mostly dark and devoid of features: Branch, Deklein, and Fade. These regions' skies are black and without landmarks (except for a galactic disk and associated Zone of Avoidance, or ZOA). Indeed, all three are quite proximal to each other in the northern section of the cluster. Moreover, if its orientation were reversed, the galactic disk visible in the wormhole would angle upward in the same direction as that seen in the northern regions. Comparing these candidates against the wormhole, I attempted to narrow down an exact match. I discounted Branch because its ZOA was completely featureless. Deklein was discounted because it had only a small, bright ZOA flare not seen through the wormhole. Fade, however, has two large, dim ZOA flares which are mirror images of the flares seen in the wormhole sky.

ZOA Flares Highlighted (image)

The Sky of Fade next to Promised Land Violent Wormhole (Image) (edit 15:20 YC 07/27/114)

Thus, I came to believe the other end of the Promised Land wormhole must be located somewhere in the Fade region, directly opposite empire space from Stain, Sansha Nation's long time base of operations.

Acting on this information, knowing that all previous violent wormholes appeared at the common warp in point for planets, I began a thorough scan of Fade. Warping to every star, planet, and landmark in the region, as well as several dozen moons, I searched for the other end of the wormhole. I also scanned down every Unstable Wormhole, Cosmic Signature, and Cosmic Anomaly in the region that could be found with scanner probes (even though violent wormholes have never appeared on such scans in the past).

Disappointingly, I found no sign of the Promised Land wormhole's exit. Nor, indeed, any sign of previous Sansha activity in the area... (continued)

I am glad to see discussions of wormholes of any kind on the IGS. Very good and thorough work, though I would have suspected the exit to that wormhole and its generator would have been moved out of capsuleer-accessible space long ago.

Interesting enough, however, is that there has never been report of a wormhole corporation that I am aware of encountering sansha in an off-grid system.

Where are you hiding, Mr. Kuvakei.

Interesting... the bit about complex fullerene shards especially. I know someone who maintains a large stockpile. He'll be interested to hear about this.

As that Jovian Space is also near that part of space, and there have been reports in the past of a large Sansha fleet in Jovian space, would it not be possible that the wormhole leads there?

I was for the last few months in Esoteria and saw that same view as seen through that violent wormhole.


This report is outstanding. Thank you.

Herzog, you can see the Vapor Sea landmark from Esoteria. In the wormhole's sky there are no landmarks....

I finally bit the bullet and made an image of Fade's Sky for direct comparison.

Hmm, there is some speculation that Isogen-5 may be able to create exotic matter with negative mass. Theory indicates that such a substance could be used to "deplete" space-time in a manner similar to ship based warp drives. I suppose if the effect was pronounced enough and the exotic matter properly contained and stabilized, an advanced propulsion system might be constructed with it.

Sadly, despite great efforts made by Arek'Jaalan scientists to acquire it, a sample of Isogen-5 has remained elusive. Without something to study, our understanding of the substance's capabilities remains theoretical in nature.

I wonder if any systems in Anoikis posess O1-class stars...that might be the best place to search for Isogen-5, if we know what ores/asteroids might yield such an exotic bounty, that is.

UPDATE: It turns out that the CONCORD solar system database holds the answer to that very question. Faulx, may I contact you privately with such a list in hand? (I do not wish to cause a major OpSec hazard to any existing inhabitants of those W-space systems by posting a list of J-signatures in a public forum associated with the search for a mineral, however rare or important it may be).