| imfarias |
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When I hear forbidden, I think cosmic horror and the key to cosmic horror is the insignificance of man (and other pc races). So the Forbidden Zone is a kind of mausoleum. Dozens of coffin-like hibernation chambers in neatly ordered rows, completely stationary in open space, each of them over 20 mile long.
There are defense but on a scale that wouldn't easily notice the PCs (maybe a large, living asteroid that won't react to anything smaller than a heavy cruiser unless it's landed on). For actual antagonists, you can have some belligerent life forms that evolved on the surface of the hibernation chambers (marking them as millions of years old).
No mortal could probably effect the chambers but, still, you probably shouldn't try. And thinking too long about what it in there, why and when they might wake up will likely drive you mad. So the ancestors put up warning signs: "This Zone is Forbidden".