Over the past few days, I completed my third expedition to the Takmahl labyrinth.
Previously, I mapped out the spatial structure of the labyrinth which allowed me to identify the most probable spot for a hidden room. This is like mapping a house, and seeing that there's a room-shaped black spot somewhere in the map. Except, this time the most likely spot was at the edge of the house.
The distance, some 54000 km from the nearest point that is accessible via the ancient warp accelerators, appeared quite daunting, so I had to obtain a custom-built frigate that could take me at high-speed, cap-stable. The ship, baptized the "Velocitas" worked out well beyond expectations.
However, when you cross the wall, you are thrown back into "regular" space near the Aphi sun, in surroundings not different from when you just warp to sun. The crossing is one-way: I tried to turn back but did not find myself back in labyrinth space. Perhaps there was a way to return, but I could not find a way to navigate to something that I could no longer see in scans. I should have left more drones.
This means there is no hidden pocket where I guessed it to be. I now conjecture that each room in the labyrinth is centered around a gate complex, and has a sphere of influence of 25-30 thousand kilometers.
This gives a map that does not have interior "black zones". There are some irregularities: sites 3,4,8,9 may have been added to the labyrinth at a later time, or have moved somewhat over the centuries. But overall, the labyrinth forms a rather contiguous volume of space, in which I no longer suspect hidden rooms.
