Hypnos Stretch

The Hypnos Stretch is a group of universes on the far fringes of the former Weave that are used as a prison complex for convicts and outlaws.

History
The universes that constituted the Hypnos Stretch didn't exist until after the ravaging of the Weave by Tor. Prior to the Weave's collapse, high profile criminals were usually imprisoned in isolated universes overseen by Weave Nodes or exiled to far outside the Weave in a few cases (such as with Entele after the Carolingian incident). After the Weave's collapse, however, many criminals that were not subsumed or converted into blightlings managed to escape in the ensuing chaos, and a new prison was needed. The universes consisting of the Hypnos Stretch were created by the Negentropic Union and fortified with technology constructed using the fragments of a destroyed Weave Node in a nearby universe. Expeditions to capture the escaped criminals were led by hunting teams of Exalts and Old Brethren, in most cases succeeding in their task.

After this initial wave of captured criminals and outlaws, new inmates have been gradually added to the Hypnos Stretch over the dozens of millennia after its construction.

Purpose
The Hypnos Stretch is used mainly as a series of prisons for beings and entities convicted by the Negentropic Union. The prison only holds high-profile criminals; namely those too useful to mind/wipe/Opal Light or kill, but too dangerous to roam free.

A prisoner of the Hypnos Stretch is trapped within an addicting lotus eater dream or simulation, being brought out only when their expertise is needed for a project. The prison universes themselves are is overlooked by hundredss of Patra at all times, alongside several armies of guards and war drones. Reality engines sit at the centre of each prison universe, as a further preventative measure against invasion and breakouts.

The deepest and most heavily guarded universes serve as containment units for entities such as Arish hosts and prominent Flesh Cultists.