Linked Lanes A lane that is connected to a particular star system. For the owner of the system, the lane acts as a normal lane, but for everyone else it's a one way lane shooting out from the star system. Makes certain systems desirable for being more defensible and a good place to attack from.



Dust Filled Wormhole A random benefit is given to the first empire to go through the wormhole. After someone goes through, it turns into a normal wormhole. Encourages a bit of a tech + exploration race



Dust Filled One Way Lanes First empire to go through gets a random benefit, just a little something to make the risk of stranding your ships a little easier on players



Unstable Wormhole: just going off the previous concepts. Go through, and it needs to cool down afterwords, trapping you wherever you wind up AND keeping others from using it themselves for a while.



Anomalous Wormhole A wormhole that requires a fleet of a certain size to pass through, turns into an unstable wormhole after use, destination unknown. 50% chance to give the empire a major bonus, 50% chance to destroy the entire fleet. Because why not?

What Garak mentions reminds me of the wormholes in Eve Online which, if I remember correctly, have a set number of uses before collapse, with bigger ships reducing that lifespan dramatically.



Those are certainly interesting ideas, keep them coming!

The idea of Unstable Lanes made me think of some different takes on the same concept: Lanes that place limitations on ships/fleets. "Thin" wormholes that can only fit ships small enough to fit, or "Turbulent" lanes that only admit ships large enough to weather the storms. "Slow" lanes/wormholes that only admit a certain number of CP per turn. Wormholes that do damage or place status effects on your fleet when you use them.