Ring Space

Location from The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

The hub — a sphere of space connecting 1,373 ring gates to different star systems. Built by the Ring Builders, governed by rules that humanity doesn't fully understand. The slow zone where physics bends and ships that go too fast simply vanish.

Also known as: Ring Space, Slow Zone, Ring Gate Hub

What They Know

• A pocket dimension approximately one million kilometers across containing 1,373 ring gates to different star systems
• The slow zone enforces a speed limit — ships exceeding it are consumed by extradimensional entities that killed the Ring Builders
• Built by the Ring Builders over a billion years ago as a transit hub for a galaxy-spanning civilization
• The Ring Station at the center is a dormant alien structure that responds to protomolecule signals
• Too much energy flowing through the ring network attracts the attention of the entities that destroyed the Ring Builder civilization
• Medina Station was positioned at the center to control access to all gates — making it the most strategic point in human space

Connections

• contains — medina_station
• contains — ilus
• contains — laconia

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