Dark Core

"If there was a hole straight to the Silence of the Void, the Dark Core would be its gates."

- Mercius Nothian

The Dark Core was a relatively small galactic region of the Otherspace galaxy, and was the only known region that was entirely made up of dark space; of the Otherspace galaxy's six hundred million stars, none were located within the Dark Core.

The Dark Core was believed to have been the oldest region of Otherspace, and as far as stellar-matter celestial bodies were concerned, was entirely occupied by black holes, with a supermassive black hole theorized to rest at its center. The gravitational forces of the Dark Core were the most intense of Otherspace, with even the Charon being unprepared for the sheer magnitude of crushing gravitational fields discovered there during the early years of the Ghost Wars.

It was known that some planets did reside within the Dark Core, such as the rogue planet 0498-3495-4759-1900-7327-3459, as well as the other planets consumed by the Kolasi Hive over the course of some five centuries. It was unknown if all the planets within the Dark Core were also rogue planets.

During and after the Ghost Wars, the Charon treated the Dark Core superstitiously, with Mercius Nothian himself once likening it to the gates of the Silence.