time

The flow of time isn't uniform (not only in this mausoleum).

Yes, the interstellar travel still takes decades. Most of us spend this time in deep cryosleep. But for the outside world - it is much shorter. Years, sometimes only months.
That's not how time dilation should work.

But there is more - it happens only for the 'regular' travelers. It becomes even weirder for Pilgrims.

Once the Pilgrimage starts to follow a Vector, they... disappear. Become almost impossible to trace. It doesn't occur in an instant - but ships of the Pilgrimage seem to fade. But even when they become impossible to detect, they are still able to send messages back to the rest of cosmos.

And once they disappear, who knows how the flow of time looks for them.

The first Artificial Prophets claimed that they will have to follow the Vectors 'longer than eternity'. 

wanderers of the abyss

Warning. Some memetic danger. 

Vena. Follower of the Minus Vector (???). Believer in the 'Organic Pathways', not designated by the Artificial Minds. Destroyed at least three Prophets.

Kasst. Presumably designed by ZOTIA. Still alive due to prolonged cryosleep. Self-inflicted memory loss. Presumably in possession of a powerful artifact from Ares. 

Samtharn. Amputated her right arm, 'to activate the Celestial Door' on planet Zeoss. Lost limb replaced by some kind of holographic device.

Oriasn. 'I am just a mirror image of Nsairo. He was killed during the First Pilgrimage. I was born of his absence. I have to continue his work. The journey must not be stopped.'

Sol. Once a very powerful and well-known person. Burned beyond recognition. Able to communicate (and commune) with stars. Discoverer of the Sentient Uranium Cube. 

Aanix. She awaits the coming of the Tertiary Vectors somewhere in the Dead Worlds. Believer of the Nightmare Union - that the world needs to collapse into all three aspects of the Triangle before the third wave of Vectors will be revealed. 

They are cursed to travel. They will live on, to witness the end. 

the vectors

 

In contrast to the Coordinates, Vectors aren't pointing towards any destination. It's all about the journey itself, about the Pilgrimage.

Primary Vectors were calculated by the Sages of Old Earth, the first Prophets, still biological and 'alive' in human understanding of the term. The process lasted for decades and started when the first visions of the Destroyer came.
Almost all Primary Vectors point outward from the Galactic Core.
It is said that no one should join the Pilgrimages of the Primary Sectors. One must be born already following them to participate and not cease to be.

Secondary Vectors are the creation of the Artificial Prophets, after the Synthetic Minds had ascended into godhood*. They were needed to establish the new Pilgrimages, as it seemed that following the Primary ones became impossible.
Even though only few Secondary Vectors point towards the Galactic Halo, not a single one is leading towards the Core.

Zero Vector is considered an error, an unexplained glitch in the Prophetic Cortexes. Only the invention of the dreadful Null Drive brought a meaning to it. Zero Nomads follow it to this day. 
No one knows where the Zero Vector is leading.

The Path of Chaos is not a Vector. It's just a twisted and convoluted set of instructions that is constantly changing. The Riders of Entropy had corrupted all their navigational systems and drove all their Prophets insane. It allowed them to figure out the Path. They are the only ones following it, no one else is that insane to even try to look for it.
Scholars of the Void claim that the Path was always there - that 'it just waited in the patterns of nothingness to be discovered.'

Tertiary Vectors haven't been calculated yet. Some Pilgrims assume that they will lead to the Core. It's widely believed that the entities capable of establishing the Tertiary Vectors do not exist yet or haven't been discovered.

*) (for some) this is the Arch-Heresy of our time, the very end of the H-tip of the triangle. No one should compare something so insignificant like anything human-related to the Overlords of the Abyss. The Destroyer is pan-temporal, thus his coming is to put these blasphemies to an end.

zero nomads

• The only known nomadic group known for using the Null Drives. 
• They claim that they follow the 'Zero Vector' - when the Primary Vectors were established, one of them wasn't feasible in any way - it was impossible to follow it. It was marked as an error.
• ZN claim that they are able to follow the Zero Vector through Nullspace.
• Unlike other nomadic groups or pilgrims, they travel on a single vessel - the Worldship. Measuring over two kilometers in length, it's the largest spaceship ever buillt, by significant margin. Built in one of the Base Worlds (near 0,0,0) by one of the Old Corporations, it's said that it's over one thousand years old.
• ZN claim that they figured the Null Drive themselves, and haven't used any knowledge found on the Ykthr Tablets. 
• It's impossible that they aren't affected by the NullVoid. 

why do we live like that?

1. We must maintain the tradition of the journey to lead our ancestor to the Afterspace. 
2. It's not the planets that are cursed - it's us. We carry the weight of millennia of sins. We are too corrupt and impure to taint the worlds with our presence.
3. The Vectors were given to us for a purpose. We must follow them no matter what. And when the time is right - we will know the reason.
4. The Destroyer preys upon mankind. We must remain on the run.
5. It is not important why the Pilgrimage has started. But now the journey is a crucial part of Paths of Universal Interconnections. We've carved our ways, the Paths that aren't ours anymore. Now it's our duty to continue the work.
6. The Null-Drives of the Worldship are in fact powering the simulation of the universe. If they cease to operate - we cease to exist.
7. Vectors make an enormous sigil, unfathomable for mortals. Artificial Gods are constantly reshaping and perfecting it. We just test its integrity.
8. If you stay on a planet for too long, you wake up. And the reality is much, much worse than the Dream World you experience now.
9. There are no planets, and the moons you've seen are just asteroids. It's just a mystification. Hallucinations caused by... someone, maybe Synth-Gods, to conceal something. Something sinister.