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RE Chronicles, Repository, and Archive Chronicles II The Omega Sector Frontier of The Terran Confederacy img825x457 The Omega Sector of the Galactic Frontier is the farthest reaches of the galaxy that ships of the Terran Confederation have settled. Much of it lies in an area of space shrouded from Earth by previously unknown dark matter fields near the Outer Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. This section was selected for settlement was due to many planets with oxygen and many raw materials as well as being removed from the disputed areas claimed by the Persead Alliance. There are practically no limitations on teraforming , especially now that the laws of the Terran Confederacy cannot be enforced and their local contingent of thier Interstellar Expeditionary Force was disbanded shortly after contact with the Core colonies and the rest of the Terran Confederacy was lost . Travel at Faster than Light speeds is only possible by way of Jump Drive through Hyperspace Void using established jump routes. Due to the nature of spacetime in the area of the Omega Sector , there are limited routes available. The longer the distances and faster the speeds needed, the fewer the number of suitable routes, and the larger and more complex the Jump drive and NavCom needed. Short local jumps up to a light year or so can be calculated manually by a good Astronavigator with a handheld or even in their heads, but a jump from near Sol to the Hub Colonies , for example, requires a full AI capable neural network computer with infi-variable virtual processing cores in able to scale to the calculations at the right moments. Many routes exist in much of space, and sometimes ships that need to make multiple shorter jumps to get to a dstination will gather together. Often times, Space Stations known as Hop Stations show up to service these routes. However, there are no Hop Station between Omega Sector and the rest of the Terran Confederation space Likewise , the Voidspace Relays tht enable FTL communication between systems in that area are also limited by the stellar geography and gravity wells in the area And so when that small Void corridor stopped working 20 years ago, the Omega Sector Frontier was cut off from the Terran Confederation. The neartest friendly colonies to jump via are at least 30,000 light years distant from the Omega Sector , but any jumps over 100 light years are risky the most sso far successful being 500 light years from planet Greenwich Prime to By way of comparison, the decidedly unfriendly Persead Alliance is about 20,000 light years away. There have been some successes with communications from the Omega Sector to planets and ships in Persead space but so far no regular conact has been established. Even with only sporadic contact, it has been found that ships sent into the void despite the warnings are not showing up on the other side. But communication with Terran colonies is illegal in the Persead Code, so it is not even known if that information can be trusted WORLDScolonies in the Omega Sector Frontier includes space stations Greenwich Prime Argus Neo Caledonia New Carthage Bangkok-7 Work in progress