The Void of Zyn Kallah

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WARNING - YOU ARE NOT AUTHORISED TO ENTER THE ZYN KALLAH SYSTEM - TURN -.-.-.-.-.

… who are you?
… why did you come here?
… you want to leave?
… you can’t… you’re ours now...

Date of First Recording

UGY 4300

Related Organizations

• The Osiryx Federation

“What about Zyn Kallah?”

“Are you kidding me? Do you have a death wish? Nobody comes out of that system alive!”

“That’s why it’s the perfect hiding spot! What, afraid of a little ghost story?”

No one can remember a time when the Zyn Kallah system was open for public space travel. One of the very first acts of the Osiryx Federation was to deem the star system as a Category Xiinoth security threat. It is one of seven areas to be classified as a Xiinoth level threat.

Officially, the Osiryx Federation closed off access routes to the Zyn Kallah system in UGY 4300, but they were stopping other travellers from accessing the system long before them. No one knows why. The threat that the Zyn Kallah system poses is so great that only those with the highest level of security clearance in the Osiryx Federation can access any of the files on it.

Home of the Nobodies

For those that don’t fear the stories, there are a number of access routes into and out of the Zyn Kallah system that the Osiryx Federation cannot completely blockade. Space pirates, outlaws, murderers, thieves and all manner of other criminals often flee to the Zyn Kallah system in order to outrun whatever law enforcement is following them.

These criminals know a number of truths:

• One - the Osiryx Federation is forbidden from following them into Zyn Kallah. No Osiryx Federation ship is allowed within the system and all OF ships are built with a fail safe that locks the ship in place if it gets too close to the Zyn Kallah system.
• Two - Terra Novus and any law enforcement group under its command are also forbidden from entering the Zyn Kallah system due to the Sol-Cerberi Concordat. Doing so would breach the concordat and put the Terrans at risk of retaliation from the Osiryx Federation
• Three - bounty hunters do not believe that following them into the Zyn Kallah system, no matter how high the price on their head, is worth potentially dying over.

The number of criminals that escape to the Zyn Kallah system has some people believing that perhaps there is a criminal refuge of some sort on one of the planets within the star system itself. However, many dispute such an idea as foolish because the criminals are never seen or heard from again and, if the Osiryx Federation knew there was a criminal hideout in the star system, why wouldn’t they have purged it?

A Technical Nightmare

The original legend to surface after the Osiryx Federation officially closed off the Zyn Kallah system was that the system itself created some kind of interference that would run rampant aboard spaceships of any kind. Whatever causes the interference, it knocks out power systems, life support, backup systems, transmitters - anything even remotely technical aboard the ship will no longer work once it is within the boundary of the Zyn Kallah system.

This theory was supported a lot more in the early years. As time passed and more and more ships were lost to the Zyn Kallah ‘deadspace’, the theory lost its popularity. More research has been done into the Zyn Kallah system by independent scientists and they have found no trace of any ships within the system at all. Were the theory true, these scientists would expect to see the ruins of at least some spaceships that had entered the system.

The Dark Consumer

Currently, the most popular theory, especially amongst those in the Curators of Honest Tales (CoHT) Society. They believe that there is something - either the darkness of the Zyn Kallah ‘deadspace’ itself, or a creature within it - that is completely destroying spaceships and anything inside of them.

No one can ever describe the creature they believe to be devouring ships beyond saying it must be ‘total darkness, a void of never ending something’. The fact that anyone who believes in this theory can point out the creature blends in with the darkness, or somehow it is the darkness of the ‘deadspace’ in the system, makes it a bit difficult to argue with them that scanners would be able to pick up a creature in the star system.

UPA - Regional Security Division

System Security - Restrictions

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UGY 4300

T'Yala, UPA Xi'Dorna
Federation ID XD-RSD-499619

CLASS 7: xiinoth

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We are authorising the complete closure of the Zyn Kallah system to all space travellers. No one shall be allowed to enter. We have accounted for the larger routes in and out of the system and have organised a permanent blockade and monitoring system. There are a number of minor routes, but we do not have the manpower to block and monitor these as we would the major routes.

No OF personnel are authorised to access the Zyn Kallah system. Permission must never be granted to enter the system. We will be installing fail safes in all ships currently assigned to the Osiryx Federation. Future ships will be designed with the fail safe in mind.

Reasoning for Category Xiinoth threat level

Whatever that thing was - is - it destroyed five ships in the blink of an eye. There’s no trace of them. We lost contact with the captains the moment they entered Zyn Kallah system boundaries. A few minutes later, our scanners showed no sign of life in the system, and we were unable to pick up the ships in built tracers.

We sent in an unmanned vessel, complete with state of the art recording equipment and all it did was flare the scanners on any nearby OF vessels. The readings we got were… impossible to make sense of. Video footage was completely black, almost as if it had never filmed anything in the first place. The audio was static for the most part. But just before the scanners flared, we heard something. A scream of some sort. Half the team ended up in our mental rehabilitation center because of it.

For now, we have no way of determining what this thing is. ‘Thing’ is a very unscientific word to use, I know, but that is the only word capable of describing this deadspace - that’s how little we know about it. Until we can figure out a way to safely collect data, nothing should be going into that system.

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