It was something rarer than dilithium. Rarer than a smiling Vulcan. An entire sector that nobody would claim. Oh, sure, there were colony worlds in this particular sector of space; a half dozen of them. But the Federation, Romulans, Klingons... none of them wanted to claim this sector. It wasn't that there wasn't anything of value; on the contrary, all of the worlds were lush and rich with precious minerals, totaly sutable to most sentient life forms.
The planets were populated with assorted proportions of members of the three empires that did not want them. They belonged to nobody but the colonists. Nice places to live, if one didn't mind their neighbor being Klingon and the elected officials being Romulan but one got used to things like that. Once you did, it was almost strange to think things would be any other way.
So where was this sector? Why didn't anyone want it? It wasn't that it was far from any particular border, on the contrary it was nearly enveloped on all sides. On the surface, there wasn't anything that out of the ordinary about this part of space. Mostly main sequence yellow and orange stars, similar to Sol, with one red giant; there were certainly no black holes.
Nothing to explain the multitude of ship disappearances. Nobody wanted this part of space because they couldn't patrol it, they couldn't afford the ship losses.
Officially cataloged in Federation databases as sector 0364xz.431b, to most people it was known simply as 'The Bermuda Sector'.
The planets were populated with assorted proportions of members of the three empires that did not want them. They belonged to nobody but the colonists. Nice places to live, if one didn't mind their neighbor being Klingon and the elected officials being Romulan but one got used to things like that. Once you did, it was almost strange to think things would be any other way.
So where was this sector? Why didn't anyone want it? It wasn't that it was far from any particular border, on the contrary it was nearly enveloped on all sides. On the surface, there wasn't anything that out of the ordinary about this part of space. Mostly main sequence yellow and orange stars, similar to Sol, with one red giant; there were certainly no black holes.
Nothing to explain the multitude of ship disappearances. Nobody wanted this part of space because they couldn't patrol it, they couldn't afford the ship losses.
Officially cataloged in Federation databases as sector 0364xz.431b, to most people it was known simply as 'The Bermuda Sector'.