Fiction:Aeoneonatrix Anomaly Region

The Aeoneonatrix Anomaly Region is the official designation for the anomalous region of space in and around the former territories of the Aeoneonatrix Empire after to its disappearance in 2793. The region spans a large area nearly 150 light-years across at its widest.

History
After the defeat of the Katar Sector Alliance in the Lightning War the Aeoneonatrix Empire suddenly vanished from the Katar Sector, their worlds and stars transported across space and time. The event, which would come to be known in Farengeto as the "Cleansing of the Aeoneonatrix" would tear apart the fabric of spacetime in the region, causing an apocalyptic event that lead many to believe the Aeoneonatrix had been destroyed by their god. Space and time became heavily warped, stars went supernova, and planets were torn apart.

The surrounding space became untraversable amidst supernova shockwaves, spacetime anomalies and the sudden massive reorganization of the sector. After a series of failed attempts to navigate the anomaly the region was placed under a Quarantine by the Katar Sector Alliance. Unable to penetrate the interior, only the outer light years possess any significant observations. Most stars that remain in the region are stellar remnants, the remains of those destroyed in the cataclysm, including a number of black holes.

The Anomaly appears to maintain an element of retroactivity to its damage, and has been suggested as link to numerous disappearances and appearances around Aeoneonatrix space for at least half of century prior to the catalysm, with ignorant vessels and other objects allegedly warped across space and time to and from the sector.

Exploration efforts would slowly find navigable regions on the edge of the anomaly, though a decade after the cataclysm only the outer edges of the former Aeoneonatrix space had been safely charted. Only after reestablishing contact with the Aeoneonatrix in the 2810s would any significant understanding be made.

Notable Voyages

 * A Modian trade convoy was on the border of Aeoneonatrix space during the catacylsm. Assumed to have been destroyed or lost, the ships were instead hit by the anomaly, emerging ten thousand light years away over the span of a hundred light years and two years from 2804-2806.


 * Probe AAR-3G-8X, an unnamed probe to chart the anomaly, surprised scientists with its return in June 2801 - three months before the probe's launch. The probe carried with it decades of observation.


 * One report from the Exploration Ship Paradox told of one of its more peculiar encounters. They encountered a damaged self-replicating probe, pulled through a temporal anomaly. The probe built a new copy of itself, cannibalizing itself in the process. They later observed as the new probe was again pulled through a temporal anomaly. The apparent temporal paradox of a casual loop remained a subject of controversy among many of the crew.


 * The Exploration Ship Destiny made many discoveries in its travels. Its last report claimed to have found evidence of advanced civilization deep in the anomaly, but its subsequent disappearance left the report subject to years of speculation.