STAR CHART: GALAXY

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The Milky Way Galaxy has become a rapidly shrinking system of stars in the context of warp velocities and cultural contacts. Wormholes, alternate universe states, temporal rifts, and other tunneling phenomena have contributed to the accelerated pace of humanoid movements and hostile operations, and no resolution to the antago-nism appears in sight. Federation scientists have studied the major subspace tunneling phenomena and continue to search for others along what are being labelled as scalar phoci or energetic domains that seem to cluster in specific parts of the galaxy. Artificial wormholes have been examined in an attempt to harness the technology for defensive and scientific purposes. Data on additional natural conduits are being compiled and analysed in an effort to gain any advantage over threat forces across galactic distances. A parallel effort has been underway to bring home the USS Voyager, which was pulled across 75,000 light-years to the Delta Quadrant in early 2371. Although the Voyager entry conduit and the Bajoran wormhole are not caused by the same entities, the fact that the two origin points lie within a scant 3.2 light-years of one another bolsters the suspicions of most Federation quantum physicists that tunnelling phenomena may be more common than first suspected.