Euclid's Expanse

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Euclid's Expanse, Called by many names including: Euclid's Cavern, Euclid's Labyrinth, The Great Madness, The Manifold Matrix, The Grate Gates of Tadh, or The Manifold. It is the greatest feat of Dimensional Space-Time manipulation known to mortal life.

The Manifold is mostly under the control of various factions facilitating galactic trade. However the sheer requirements needed to build such a structure are well beyond the engineering, technological, scientific, and computational capabilities possessed by these civilizations, giving evidence to its architects being a vastly older, more knowledgeable, and powerful a civilization.

The fact that no current descendants, successors, or even history of this civilization has remained until the present within the region begs the questions; "Who were, or who are, they?" and "Where did they go?". The civilization has hence been dubbed "**the Builders**"

## Geography

The structure loosely resembles an ant colony when mapped out with the farthest reaches of the Manifold's Geography extending as far as 10,000 light years away beginning with the propagation of several thousand Wormhole Bridges, Gates, and other weirder manifestations, Area's around these points have been warped with the exteriors being highly contracted.

At its 3-D topological heart lies the **Tadh Bridge**, a vast mouth nearly a million kilometers in diameter. Several minor wormhole bridges connect to the throat, before most of the bridge converges on itself at the **Shkallios** intersection. Entering the **Shkallios Gate** from the Tadh Bridge leads to the **Dathel Space**. Entering the gate from Dathel Space leads to the Rakaujh Space. And entering the gate from Rakaujh space leads back to the Tadh Bridge.

Hidden inside the Dathel and Rakaujh spaces are many wonderous geometric manipulations such as the **Möbius Mirrors**, forms of **Klien Bottles**. Rakaujh contains a bridge which leads to the **Great Gash Corridor**. A corridor which links to several large wormhole networks manifesting themselves in various places both within and around the Silky Way Galaxy.

Many other fantastic phenomena occur within and throughout the Manifold. So called **Pockets** are connect to the network, several hiding small star systems. A handful of **Pits** and other considered non-traversable wormholes exist throughout the Network leading to who knows where. Travel using the outer wormholes, is further expedited by warp conveyer systems (similar to a Krasnikov tube), A megastructure extending along a long region of space with several warp bubbles continuously travelling around, attached to these conveyers are complex manifolds allowing entrance and exit off of the otherwise useless belts.

An ancient world, named Padhagasen, has been found within the inner network, orbiting through a series of five distinct wormholes around an unknown object in a bazaar and mysterious pattern. The world is cold and dormant of biological life, with only an ancient A.I. system keeping the world's orbit on proper trajectory with large engines, correcting ever so slightly on occasion. The technology dates back to before the **Were** species all the way to the ancient **Primaformes**.

Taking advantage of the outer network and the fringes of the erection allows many quick and high capacity trade routes and travel methods, but the middle and inner network is home to many bottlenecks and hazardous areas greatly complicating travel. However it is displayed by some calculations that as little as 5% of the actual network has been explored, making it possible that what is currently thought to be the heart of the network may in fact be only one of several outer nodes of the true Manifold. Even within the explored parts, several hostile entities have been identified operating within the vast matrix. Often lurking from their hideouts, either within or without of the Expanse, to raid trade vessels making use of the Network's convivence. The depths of the complex may be home to the unfathomable

### The Dathel and Rokaujh Space

These are Pockets otherwise cut off from the outside universe if not by the entrance and exit via several wormhole bridges, gates, pits, and geometric space time manifolds. These regions are each around one AU in diameter with smaller pockets and corridors leading to satellite regions. The Only 3-D way in or out of these pockets is by using the Shkallios Gate and pinhole entrances connecting to Drop Zones. Exiting the border of one of these pockets causes a person to enter the border at opposite side (As defined by a cylinder) kind of like a game of packman. Light does this also leading to rather dizzying sights and a sky full of the same star.

### Drop Zones

Drop Zones are small Wormholes extending just beneath the surface of 3-D space with diameters of less than several dozen yards, Inside these are the pinhole mouths off several larger wormholes.