If the secret of a stable wormhole —one vast enough to allow entire planets to pass through— were ever to be uncovered, there would no longer be a place for them anywhere in the region.
The Syndicate would exploit such a wormhole to its absolute limit: a gateway that links two Young Sectors instantaneously, and connects two Mid Sectors in no more than two months of travel.
And even if one were to ignore the time factor entirely, this route would erase the need to traverse the border zones between sectors altogether—those infamous boundary regions riddled with temporal storms, violent spatial distortions, anti-life phenomena, and the resurgence of newborn and juvenile space beasts that had recently begun spreading through them in alarming numbers.
Everything about this route was irresistibly alluring. Every aspect of it would transform Sector 99 and Sector 100—both Medium and Young—into unparalleled centers of commerce and, simultaneously, into inevitable theaters of war.
