About Rukwatsuku
Rukwatsuku is galaxy 249 of 256 in No Man's Sky, a normal galaxy. The standard odds. The game calls them Imperfect, Improved, Parallel or Rebuilt galaxies, under a cyan hologram. Most of the 256 are normal.
Travellers arrive here from the centre of Ilmenhorn. From the centre of Rukwatsuku, the road goes on to Nepitzaspru.
This atlas holds 350 charted regions and 14 star systems of Rukwatsuku, each with its portal address.
From Tanzania to Japan
Rukwatsuku starts at a real lake: Rukwa, in south-west Tanzania, a salty lake of the Rift Valley with no outlet to the sea. And it ends in Japanese, where tsuku (着く) means to arrive.
A traveller leaves the African lake and arrives in Japan (日本): the whole road in one name.
Image: Lake Tanganyika, plate 9, J.R. Bourguignat,1890,Public domain.