Jorus Merrill
is mek bote
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Something fun for ORC folks.
- Image Credit: "Superwide" by Aaron Walker, found at https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LomRv
- Canon: N/A
- Links: Inspired by vector prime and other points of egress.
HYPERLANE INFORMATION
- Hyperlane Name: The Torrential Burp
- Hexes Crossed: 2
- Start Coordinate: H57
- End Coordinate: H59
- Route Points: Torrential, hyperspace disturbance at the edge of the galaxy
HYPERLANE CHARACTERISTICS
- Speed: Very Low
- Accessibility: The Torrential Burp is a local tall tale. Hearing it is a far cry from knowing how to find it -- let alone surviving the experience. Actual knowledge of the Torrential Burp is more or less restricted to Outer Rim Coalition people who've been around the block a few times.
- Route Hazards: There is no more dangerous route, with the possible exception of the Kessel Run.
The Torrential system is absolutely choked with comets; only small, nimble starships have any chance of navigating the system alive. Where a normal star system might have distant cometary formations like a Kuiper belt and/or an Oort cloud, the entire Torrential system is choked with swarms of inbound and outbound comets. Millennia of impacts have pounded most of the system’s few planets to rubble, forming rings and clouds of asteroids. - Survive the comets, and there's still the breach point to deal with. Nestled in the Torrential system is a breach in the hyperspace disturbance at the edge of the galaxy. Excellent navigational equipment and a seasoned astrogator at the helm are both recommended, as the hyperspace distortion causes all kinds of trouble for navigational sensors, beacons, and so forth. Only small, nimble ships can hope to pass through to the galactic void without damage. At that point, their options are few: long cold trips to the Nagai Trade Spine or Kamino, for example.
- The Sharuka are known to keep a loose eye on the Torrential Burp, and they do not suffer fools gladly.
[*]Rest Stops: The only available quasi-safe stop is Orspoint. Perhaps the only consistently dry land on Torrential, Orspoint is a craggy little camp miles above the ocean. Centuries ago, a piece of another world collided with Torrential, and a chunk of its crust still protrudes at a bizarre angle. The planet’s constant tsunamis have smoothed the slopes of the gigantic, unnatural mountain, but only one wave in a thousand reaches high enough to endanger Orspoint. The camp comprises a few landing pads carved out of the peak, as well as caves where prefabricated shelters can be deployed. Orspoint is the occasional home of scientific expeditions or lost smugglers. As a result, one can often find waterlogged but edible supplies, abandoned instruments, and the occasional wrecked ship on the mountain’s gigantic slopes.
DESCRIPTION
The Torrential Burp is a short, nasty route by which an intrepid pilot can breach the hyperspace disturbance at the edge of the galaxy. The Torrential Burp exists entirely within the galaxy, just at the verrrrry edge. It sees perhaps five ships a year, of which two or three survive the trip. This is the cold, hard, uncivilized back end of nowhere.
