The Ember Waste

The Ember Waste, as it is called by the Remnant, is an isolated region of the galaxy, filled with dead stars, spacial anomalies, ominous red mist, and strange space creatures.
Connected to Terminus, a single system in the northwest of human space, by an unstable wormhole which requires a Quantum Keystone to traverse, the Remnant escaped to the Waste to avoid the threat of the Alphas.
== Overview ==
The Ember Waste can be separated into four main sections. Each section is filled with dying red stars, along with a rough red background mist quite unlike the calm blue found elsewhere in the galaxy.
The Ember Waste has two system hazards. It has a constant increased heat as well as occasional storms which deal ion damage and also shield and hull damage.
Crossing the Ember Waste requires many consecutive jumps, even with the wormhole chains assisting. However, ramscoops are generally more efficient within the Waste, since the many old stars generate high amounts of solar wind.
=== Southwest ===
The southwest part of the Ember Waste consists of seven systems, one of them unlinked. Cardea, farthest to the west, contains the other endpoint of the Terminus wormhole, the Ember Threshold, and also contains another highly unusual anomaly, the Ember Wormhole.
The system called Nenia is a special system, and has its own section on this page.
Convector, in the center of the Southwest region, contains a wormhole called the Ember Reaches, connecting this section of the Waste to Coluber in the North of the Waste.
Ossipago, farthest to the east, contains a wormhole called the Ember Graveyard that connects to the Graveyard.
In addition, there is a single unlinked system slightly north, Aescolanus, that contains nothing but a wormhole.
=== Central ===
The centralmost part of the Ember Waste is not particularly interesting. It only contains four systems, with two wormholes, one of them linking to the Southwest and to the Southeast. However, it is close enough to the Northern sector to allow ships with jump drives to cross over. Namely, the Korath.
=== North ===
Like the central sector, the northern part of the Ember Waste bears no distinguishing features with only four systems, but it is particularly close to Korath space. A wormhole link exists between Coluber here and Convector in the Southwest. Another wormhole in Lucina connects the Ember Waste to Acheron, the home region of the Gegno.
=== Southeast ===
The southeast part of the Ember Waste is inhabited by a band of strange humans who call themselves the Remnant. They have three inhabited worlds here: Caelian, in Cinxia; Viminal, in Arculus; and Aventine, in Pantica. A single wormhole link exists between Edusa in this region and Peragenor in the Central sector, the Remnant Wormhole. These worlds are the only other sources of quantum keystones that can be used to access some of the wormholes.
== Wormholes ==
The wormholes in this region of space are very special. The names given to them here were taken straight from the code.
Several of the wormholes require quantum keystones to pass through. If you do not have a keystone installed on your ship the wormholes are still displayed, but you are unable to interact with them. Additionally ships in your fleet also require keystones to allow them to pass through the wormhole.
The rest of the wormholes are actually one series of connected wormholes that operate in this fashion: by landing on wormhole A, you depart from wormhole B; by landing on B, you depart from C, and so on, until you make a full loop and depart from wormhole A. This order is determined by the order in which the systems appear in the map file.
The wormholes, their systems, and their natures are listed below:
* Ember Threshold: Terminus <-> Cardea. Requires keystone.
* Ember Wormhole: Cardea -> Insitor -> Segesta -> Aescolanus -> Cardea. Wormhole train. Requires keystone.
* Ember Reaches: Convector <-> Coluber. Requires keystone.
* Ember Gegno: Lucina <-> Rouseu. Requires keystone. Leads to Acheron. 
* Remnant Wormhole: Peragenor <-> Edusa. Requires keystone.
* Ember Graveyard: Ossipago <-> Polerius. Requires keystone. Leads to The Graveyard.
== Nenia ==
Further information: Void Sprites
Void Sprite 1.png|Two smaller Void Sprites mining an asteroid.
Void Sprite 2.png|The two different sizes of Void Sprite found in-game.
The Nenia system is one of the strangest features of the Ember Waste as a whole. Within it reside strange space creatures called Void Sprites, which periodically depart from their gas giant homeworlds of Nasqueron and Slylandro. They are not normally hostile, but will attack in self-defense. In addition, an initially cloaked Archon, Sleeping Dragon, appears if the Sprites are harmed, and will retaliate against their attackers. Otherwise, the Sprites peacefully "mine" asteroids and return to their gas giant homeworlds.
== Systems == 
System Name	X Pos	Y Pos	Faction 	Links 	Landings
Aescolanus 	-15 	340 	Uninhabited	 	Ember Wormhole
Antevorta 	-36 	446 	Uninhabited	Cardea, Convector, Insitor, Ossipago	
Arculus 	309 	393 	Remnant 	Cinxia, Edusa, Pantica 	Seraglio, Eminonu, Babiali, Viminal, Kumkapi, Xerolophos, Topkapi, Aksaray, Yedikule
Caeculus 	163 	343 	Uninhabited	Stercutus 	
Cardea 	-89 	417 	Uninhabited	Antevorta, Nenia 	Crataegusa, Ember Threshold, Ember Wormhole
Cinxia 	266 	415 	Remnant 	Arculus, Farinus, Pantica, Perfica 	Caelian, Tibernia, Janiculum, Vatican, Palatine, Pincian
Coluber 	150 	197 	Uninhabited	Levana, Lucina, Parca 	Ember Reaches
Convector 	-14 	379 	Uninhabited	Antevorta 	Ember Reaches
Diespiter 	332 	210 	Uninhabited	Statina 	
Edusa 	274 	347 	Uninhabited	Arculus 	Remnant Wormhole
Egeria 	288 	146 	Uninhabited	Statina, Vaticanus 	
Farinus 	203 	440 	Uninhabited	Cinxia, Perfica 	
Insitor 	-28 	400 	Uninhabited	Antevorta 	Ember Wormhole
Levana 	204 	247 	Uninhabited	Coluber 	
Lucina 	176 	176 	Uninhabited	Coluber, Parca 	Far Monad, Ember Gegno
Nenia 	-39 	467 	Uninhabited	Cardea, Ossipago 	Nasqueron, Slylandro
Ossipago 	7 	429 	Uninhabited	Antevorta, Nenia 	Ember Graveyard
Pantica 	304 	445 	Remnant 	Arculus, Cinxia 	Capitoline, Aventine, Esquiline, Quirinal, Servian
Parca 	151 	151 	Uninhabited	Coluber, Lucina 	Baianus
Peragenor 	87 	356 	Uninhabited	Stercutus 	Remnant Wormhole
Perfica 	186 	419 	Uninhabited	Cinxia, Farinus 	
Postverta 	297 	269 	Uninhabited	None 	Fertriery, Ssil Vida
Prosa 	303 	194 	Uninhabited	Vaticanus 	
Segesta 	112 	294 	Uninhabited	Stercutus 	Ember Wormhole
Statina 	385 	198 	Uninhabited	Diespiter, Egeria 	Wormhole Link
Stercutus 	141 	320 	Uninhabited	Caeculus, Peragenor, Segesta 	
Vaticanus 	324 	112 	Uninhabited	Egeria, Prosa 	Wormhole Link
== Notes ==
* It is implied in the Remnant intro missions that the Archons are biologically related to, or at least unusually protective of, the Void Sprites, perhaps as some kind of galactic treasure.
* Slylandro is a reference to the Star Control 2 alien race of the same name. The Slylandro are special in the galaxy, being the only species (at least with current information) to evolve on and inhabit a gas giant.
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