This is pretty much the rest of Netherspace Sector, including what has come before, and what was never revealed.
Netherspace Sector (part of the
Altonian Cluster)
67 Tethys
Abandoned System ; caused by natural disaster
(bombarded by a gamma ray burst from nearby black holes, most likely), leaving
behind evidence of an impressive ancient culture that never developed
spaceflight but which had an enormously sophisticated and technologically
advanced planet. Had they been able to move in to space they might have escaped
their fate.
06 The Tiberon Anomaly
First
recorded by Old Era Spacers during the first colonial expansion, the Tiberon
Anomaly is a region of space egregiously warped and damaged by an unknown
energy source, leading to wormholes that actually project back and forward in
time. Speculated that the weakening of space explains the problem with Kedrak
Prime’s sun. Others suspect that the Keddirak were once more technologically
advanced, or had precursors who created a timespace weapon that damaged the
region badly long ago.
46 Serpicus
A peaceful,
primitive species of reptilians dwell on Serpicus, which is a pleasant, humanlike
world. The reptiloids of Serpicus are currently dealing with the incursion of a
New Germanican starbase in their system, and active colonization efforts that
are simultaneously trying to subjugate and enslave the Serpicans. The leader of
this colonization is Talia Guthrie, Supreme Commander of Colonial Station
Alpha. It is so far New Germanica’s best colonization effort. A major goal is
to create a new refinery and generator to replenish the exhausted foldspace
engines of the colony ship, to allow for communication and travel back to the
homeworld. The colony knows that the homeworld survived a Void Lord incursion
but for secrecy has not been notified that they have gained access to
anti-matter technology.
62 NGC 44379-8 (Destination)
This
abandoned system contains no noteworthy resources and an ordinary binary star
system. Unknown to most, the indigenous species is an offshoot of humanity
which was captured and placed in a colony in the system’s Kuiper Belt, in a
complex series of engineered worlds, and hidden through cloaking technology.
The humans are aggressive and have developed fairly current technology over the
centuries; all are descended (possibly) from the original spacers who scouted
the system but disappeared nearly a thousand years ago. Their captors are a
mystery. The spacers call their home “Destination.”
15 Empty Space (Void station Vartinimos)
Hidden in
this otherwise empty sector is the Vartinimos Naval Yard, built in a region
where a brown dwarf and the debris of a half-formed planetary system still
resides. The naval yard is the home base of a major hidden Void Lord fleet led
by the Void Knight Commodore Malice, a cunning human woman converted in the
early years of the Void Lord invasion to the cause.
13 The Second Anomaly
This
anomalous region is like the Tiberon Anomaly recorded in hex 04, but unlike
that hex this one has not been charted, though Void Lord scouts have found the
anomaly. The fleet in hex 07 has a contingent plan to retreat to a known safe
harbor in this sector which will mask their vessels; they are currently
investigating the possibility they can use the wormholes to return to an
earlier era and advance their invasion in a time before human expansion had
taken hold, likely during the early era of Spacer Colonization when humanity
would be especially vulnerable, or even as far back as the pre-spacefaring era
of mankind (plot hook, anyone?)
01, 53, 73, 68 Black Holes
Cataloged
black holes, there are an anomalously large number in the region.
27 NGC 1429 (Habaris)
The system
of Habaris is mostly uninhabitable but a thriving colony of aggressive space
savages dwells in a shanty town of collected asteroid bases and
half-functioning ships. Unknown as to why they congregated here. Their presence
makes for a dangerous risk to outsiders. One theory is that they are survivors
of the Void Lord purge who escaped mental enslavement, but at the expense of
sanity. The system also contains extensive colony remains of what was once a
New Germanican station and city on Habaris Prime; evidence suggests that it was
annihilated by the Void Lords. There are a handful of survivors who are
currently dwelling in mining tunnels where they are hiding from the space
savages, who they know arrived like dogs of war in the wake of the Void Lords.
47 Remandalis
The human
colonists of Remandalis were related to the New Germanicans, and was their
first colony attempt over two centuries ago, but it suffered a terrible fate as
their world suffered a natural disaster due to a cometary bombardment. The
survivors are technologically savvy and peaceful, but dwell in deep
subterranean bunkers due to the utterly wild and uninhabitable surface, which
is wracked by super-storms and extreme radiation. The colonists have discovered
subterranean remains of an incredibly old civilization that they now believe
colonized the planet three million years ago for unknown reasons, and have
found evidence it may have harbored prisons for incredibly ancient aliens. The
chamber of one such prison has been excavated, revealing an immense corpse and
fossil skeleton nearly a quarter mile long.
21 Bothar
The world of
Bothar is a colony of the aggressive Quinlons, who migrated in to this region a
few years after the passing of the Void Lords. The original colony was a
monitoring station, used by the Quinlon mercenaries working for the Empire
during the war, but it has since been claimed as a Quinlon imperial territory
after the Quinlon/Makamian relations collapsed. The current base has a small
defense force and refuels the Quinlon vessels that operate in the region. In
the Dark Stars universe the Quinlons are aggressive, dangerous opponents of
humanity, and look a bit like they walked off the set of Fury Road and onto the
set of Predators….but with even more bony bits sticking out.
63 NGC-184923 (Hapson’s World)
The
abandoned world of this trinary system is wracked with bizarre gravitational
anomalies caused by severe local spatial distortions. There is a small research
station in a stable corner of the system, the Kaon Monitoring Station, which is
actually a front for military weapon design by the Toho Megacorporation,
operating in what it considers independent space to avoid Imperial scrutiny.
33 Chalice
The grassy,
friendly planet of Chalice is offset by the alien, aggressive centauroid
Hammagath, who are primitive but powerful beings. They dislike offworlders,
especially due to the fact that Quinlon like to kidnap them and haul them off
to arenas for battle.
31 Graedos
This system
has one habitable planet named Graedos locally, with indigenous falcon-men, who
call themselves “the Graedii.” They are naturally aggressive and are locked in
a lengthy cultural dark age of war and religious persecution. Visitors admire
the planet’s impressive natural spires turned into amazing fortresses.
61 NGC 1338765
This
cataloged star system shows evidence of an advanced ancient civilization that
wiped itself out. The system is littered with ancient structures dating back
1.2 million years, and is noted for its impressive graveyard of ancient
vessels, some of which still contain salvageable lost tech.
65 Hathor
The denizens
of Hathor are humanoids who look very close to humans, and failed research
efforts to study the Hathorites have failed to determine if they are
genetically related or an example of convergent evolution. What prompts such
questions is the well-established society of quasi-Egyptian ways, beliefs and
architecture that encompass the equatorial band of life on the planet. The
similarities are regarded as too much for comfort, and it is believed by those
who have visited that the Hathorite reflect a lost group of humanity that was
kidnapped and displaced on this world. Also of note is that the rogue Void Knight
Sapellar, a reptiloid convert who somehow escaped control of the Void Lords
during their retreat, has come to reside on Hathor and has convinced the locals
to worship him as a god. He has been single-handedly escalating their society
from an ancient tech civilization to a near-future singularity in the space of
a decade.
30 Trigaros
The second
local Quinlon colony, Trigaros was a rough world that had been terraformed
partially back in the late 29th century before the Megacorp Ion
abandoned the project, and also abandoned hundreds of workers for unknown
reasons possibly related to an extraction cost. The humans who survived on the
planet were able to hang on until the Quinlons arrived after the Void Lords
fled the sector, and took over. For the last decade Trigaros has turned into a
Quinlon military enclave and a refuge for the worst scum and villainy at the
edge of frontier space.
00 Severis (and Optima)
The second
system once claimed during the Megacorporate era by Ion, Optima was fully
terraformed for human use when Ion folded during the Corporate Wars. The
survivors were left to fend for themselves, but in 2254 a rogue moon entered
the system, causing havoc with local orbits. Optima appeared doomed, but the
survivors lucked out when a exploration ship of Mindoids stumbled across the
colonists and assisted in moving a large number to the outer moon of Severis.
As Optima was turned into a molten world when its own moons collided in the
wake of the rogue planet’s passing, they found instead a weird future in the
Mindoid colony station on Severis. Now the humans work as mentally enslaved
agents of the Mindoids.
