Quiet Zones  Quiet Zone Image from Steve Bowers Quiet Zone in
Lacerta  Rumour has it that every once in a while a researcher
using data from the Known Net discovers an anomalous stellar
system. It might be nearly anywhere, from the edge of the
Terragen expanse to the heart of the Inner Sphere, but what
distinguishes it from otherwise similar systems is how little is
known about it at close range. Often a Quiet Zone is claimed by
some polity but has not been visited or developed. Somehow
though explorers, scientists, and colonists will have bypassed
it and chosen other targets, or experienced technical breakdowns
or financial reverses, or have had disputes among themselves,
and have never made the trip. Or perhaps someone has actually
set out but has not returned. Somehow too the full power of the
Argus Array has never been focused on that area, or if it has
then the data that are available have been shuffled into
mislabelled files. In the end, the existence of that particular
zone or of Quiet Zones generally