Disclaimer alert, this is written for in-house play and not intended to infringe on any sci-fi genre.
Delphic Expanse Campaign
Three years after beginning of the New War the Directorate was testing
a new super weapon . This new weapon was
designed to create a reaction in a sun that would produce an enormous radiation
flare which would eliminate the population of a system leaving the buildings
and planets unharmed. The Directorate
chose a sun of a remote system on the edge of the Delphic Expanse. During this test something went horribly
wrong and caused the sun to supernova destroying a research station and the
battle group stationed in the area. The
largest exploration conglomerate Interplanetary Expeditions (IPX) went in to discover
if anything could be salvaged. During
the fold space jump out of the system a single ship’s navigation malfunctioned
and sent it into the expanse barrier.
However the ship was not destroyed and emerged unscathed. Perplexed by this turn of events IPX began an
intensive survey of the area and determined that the intense solar radiation has
begun to break down the barriers around the expanse. Until this point thick thermobaric clouds
surrounded the expanse, thus blocking any entry into the enormously unexplored
region of space. Thermobaric clouds are
a hazardous type of gaseous formation which can be extremely dangerous to
starship navigation.
The Expanse is approximately 2,000 light years across and is virtually
unknown by all the species of life. No
explorer vessels have found any traces of a way to penetrate the expanse. Intense gravitational distortions, similar to
quantum singularities, made travel through the Expanse extremely difficult as
it appeared that space did not obey the known laws of physics in the region; travellers
risked injury, disfigurement, or death.
Over the course of several generations many races have attempted to
enter and chart the expanse. A group of Sorylian’s
mistakenly entered the Expanse, but returned anatomically inverted (and still
alive). Unsuccessful attempts to explore the region were also made by the Aquan
ships Seleya and Vaankara. The Seleya was later discovered, with its crew
driven mad due to exposure to an unknown radiation, and subsequently destroyed. Each time a ship attempted to bypass the thermobaric
clouds and enter the expanse the gravitational distortions disrupted the jump
point and destroyed the emerging ship.
There have been only rumors about what lies in the expanse until now.
Since this discovery all races have rushed to the region to attempt to
lay claim to the vast untouched resources of the area. Of course IPX has sold the instructions for
entering the expanse to the highest bidder; unwittingly IPX sold the
instructions to any race that could afford it.
There is little known about the expanse, but rumors of hostile groups of
races run rampant throughout the galaxy.
