Yeah, the ring was a joke.
But I stumbled into actual trails - dead ends, false ones.
Now this could be an amazing amount of coincidences
Googling for Omphalus, it's a Navigation and marker stone in the centre of "something", like a marker of an axis, origin, core or foundation....
There are similar concepts of these markers in other cultures that are at the centre of a realm or reality.
Like Axis Mundi ( a system found in Imperial space).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_mundi
or another system called Bodhi (tree)
These two systems are 132 ly's apart
In Keren, coincidentally being in the middle between these two "marker" systems, has a civilian installation, a comms installation and its name, "Major Foundation".
Coincidence? Probably......
Maybe a subtle tease by the devs' that this is the right "track".
With my head reeling I docked up and checked the faction list and mission boards.
One of the factions in Keren is called Crimson, and another Herring.
Now, that is clearly going to be a coincident of the RNG system with my brain in a highly subjective mode, so faction names in Keren maybe "A Red Herring?"
But what if there are "more" systems, that fit the axis-mundi naming conventions, and much like the erroneous astronavigation in the Movie Star-gate
6 systems, broken down into 3 pairs.
Crossing at the same point.
is
Yggdrajang https://eddb.io/system/19577 - really the tree in norse mythology that connects the 9 realms which goes by the name
Yggdrasil
Do we need a 7th symbol for a journey?
There are many stars, many systems that all got their names from Mythological and Religious characters and places, all of which have references to their own cultures, core-" Navel" Marker