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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazarous" data-source="post: 2623826" data-attributes="member: 23561">Perhaps a third option exists for frontiers - the spaces between stars.  Postulate some sort of reef-like structure that can form in interstellar space, and through whatever methods provides sustenance for life.  This has the benefit of being 1.hard to find (no stars to point it out) 2.being very far away from civilization and having vast distances between individual reefs.The reefs could be rich in some resource which the idylls are interested in, so there is a constant drive to find more of them, but they are proverbial needles in the haystack, so discovering a new one is a big deal.  If a particular faction manages to keep its discovery of a reef secret, then you can get your pirates dens, remote research institutes, whatever else you feel like adding.As to the pseudonatural world, if it's freefloating then perhaps when it approaches a star system it takes on some sort of obvious visibility.  A baneful red star appears in the night sky, or a comet of sinister shape dominates the southern hemisphere, that sort of thing.  You could also have this directly affect the darkworld - perhaps the extra energy given out by the pseudonatural world gives more power to tainted spellcasters, causes nature on the darkworld to become more active and hostile, drives the inhabitants mad, etc.</blockquote>