Fiction:Pyrean Galaxy/Mysteries,Secrets and Anomalies



As with most galaxies, the Pyrean Galaxy is ancient. It has had literally all the time in the universe to build up its personal store of unique phenomeonon, paranoid conspiracies, alien ruins, and artifacts of immense power...and some artifacts of not-so-immense power. Contained here is a list of anomalies detected within the stellar halo of the Pyrean Galaxy.

Planetary Anomalies
Planetary anomalies have the most impact on the colonists of an empire; if your planet has an anomalous amount of massive earthquakes, it's going to affect you. Many worlds throughout the Scurj Empire have visible anomalies, from the strange series of interconnected mounds and barrows on Piston in Grey Sector, to the crashed spacecraft just outside the capitol of Mobias. Others include:


 * The alleged spotting of a live hyper-epic on Barria-2, revealed upon closer examination to be a freakishly tall epic Twolobe.
 * Strange examples of space-borne life spotted in the exospheres of numerous worlds.
 * The Temples of Koo'Ru, allegedly forming the backbone of a galaxy-spanning teleportation network built by the Zha'ra Zha'ra people.
 * Spottings of colony incredi-packs from alien empires that failed to deploy fully, leaving the city's road pattern and nothing else.
 * Dozens of worlds around the Core lacking spice of any kind.

Stellar Anomalies
Stars are unpredictable, unstable things. Many beings forget this as they look at the glowing pinprick that warms their world. As balls of plasma held together by gravity, there is plenty of leeway for things to go wrong. And especially in interactions with other stars, anything that can go wrong, probably will go wrong.


 * The stellar minefield surrounding an unnamed blue giant star, with an incredible eight other stars crammed in within one parsec of each other.
 * The Chazik Void, a vast starless region containing five wormhole endpoints;believed to be the result of a failed ISD-6 experiment.
 * The Sol system, with an unusually high amount of planets.
 * A seemingly unreachable blue star just over 19 parsecs from the nearest star.

Mysteries and Secrets
As long as there have been sentient beings, there have been secrets. Knowledge is power; knowing something the other guy doesn't may be the one thing ensuring your survival for the day. The secrets of many extinct alien races remain safe, despite the best efforts of scientists and captains alike to uncover them. Some secrets are best left undiscovered, such as how to create a wormhole, experiments into which are believed to have created the Chazik Void. Most alien relics that are extremely advanced can be classified as mysteries, such as:


 * The Taliq Sentinel-the remains of a massive ship that slowly orbits the galaxy, discovered by a Quednak extragalctic probe.
 * A unique example of Autumnal technology that appears to smooth out the gravitational tangle of the galactic core and allows rapid travel through that region. (creator's note:This was an actual glitch-I got ISD-5 travel in the galactic core whenever I used this one wormhole.)
 * The crashed starship outside Mobias; it appears to have been gutted and the bodies removed at some point in the distant past.
 * The Galactic Voyager-an unusually large Taloncraft spotted moving slowly towards the Scurj world of Dagne.