Ringspace is an enormous sphere, requiring nearly 4 months to travel across it. Luckily for spacefarers, there exist certain natural phenomenon to make travel faster.
There are creatures native to Ringspace called Raanwalah; huge, worm-like beasts that drift lazily through space and breed around the fire rings. When these creatures, jokingly known as "ringworms," are hungry, they move out into space and "tunnel" into the Prime Material plane, feeding on the very fabric of wildspace itself. This creates a rift in the worm's wake forming a wormhole through the Astral plane. Entering this wormhole allows extremely rapid travel from one end to the other, making a trip of months pass in minutes. These wormholes crisscross through the entire sphere, providing rapid travel for all who are resourceful enough to find them.
Wormholes eventually collapse after 10 years or so, but some are near the end of their life and are therefor unstable. There is a 25% chance that such a wormhole will be found, but this will not be realized until the journey is underway. The walls of the phenomenon will begin to collapse in the ship's wake. If the ship slows down at all, the wormhole's collapse will engulf it and it will be stranded in the Astral plane.
Spacefarers often chart the course of a wormhole by shooting a location beacon into the opening and waiting for it to show up on the planetary locator at its final destination.
