What is the Ryalli Expanse?
The Ryalli Expanse is an immense nebula that spreads across a large portion of the Ryalli sector. For thousands of years, it has been inhabited by a non-corporeal race known as the Ryalli entities. The presence of the Ryalli Entities warped space and time within the nebula, making all ships which entered it, subject to strange and bizarre manifestations of people and objects from other times and realities. This same effect appears to have damaged ship equipment as well, trapping most ships that enter within the Ryalli and killing their crews. The USS Terra Nova was one of the few ships to escape. Its escape had the unexpected effect of causing the Ryalli Entities to leave the expanse, making it free for travel. It has since become a salvager’s paradise and a hiding place for pirates and the more hostile races of the Ryalli Sector.
