Regions of tangled echo-signatures where past jump-corridors have overwritten each other so thoroughly that spacetime echoes collapse into incomprehensible noise—natural hiding places where Imperial surveillance becomes blind.
Distortion Pockets form naturally where multiple FTL routes have crisscrossed the same space for centuries. Instead of resolving into clear patterns, the overlapping echoes create a cacophony—a blur of contradictory jump-signatures that renders surveillance arrays useless.
The Void Runners have learned to navigate these pockets by feel and intuition, using old-style dead-reckoning and quantum-beacons to plot courses through the chaos. To Imperial tracking systems, a ship vanishes the moment it enters a pocket. To the Runners, it becomes invisible—truly free.
The Shattered Teeth contains some of the galaxy's most ancient and tangled distortion pockets, making it a haven for rebels and a nightmare for Imperial patrols.