Fort_Master_Gustav
Ive thought about using the dawn for this one but then decided on my other faction, the Tetra Eclipse.
the Tetra Eclipse can perfom dimensional travel by understanding the Dawn. Lets just say the Dawn and the Tetra Eclipse have a very long and violent relationship. The tetra eclipse were able to produce their own artificial version of the Dawn's FTL from a salvaged battle.
The Tetra Eclipse are trying to get to where a large portion of Dawn activity is. But in order to get there they must first travel through a barren, hungry dimension that the dawn do not traverse.
That dimension, nicknamed by the Tetra Eclipse, Nowhere. It's called that because it's what you'd expect to find in the middle of nowhere; nothingess, scarece details in the place, a feeling of lonliness and some unwanted dangers to throw in there. This journey, for the Tetra Eclipse, will be a dangerous one; no living thing, not even the dawn, have been there. Or they have, they just haven't gotten out alive.
The dangers in question are lost, galactic creatures. Morpherd and perverted into misshapen, unnamable monsters of the black abyss that is Nowhere. Aside from immediate dangers, theres the danger of the tetra that travel there being trapped in nowhere and becomeing one of those things in their ghost ship. The second danger is enviromental. Stare into the void and the void stares back. The black nothingness, when exposed to the unknown, dead air of Nowhere, it makes you sick, delusional, violent and infects you with symptoms similar to that of radiation poisnoning.
Which is why the Tetra Eclipse have become prepared. creating a ship just for the occasion with artifical Dawn FTL technology and a hull which can whistand the atmosphere of Nowhere, and many, many weapons and defensive systems. The ship looks like a heavy duty war ship at first, but it's simply a large cargo vessel that's being used to go into the Abyss, to the Dawn heavy dawn activity near the Dawn's ground zero