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Cholmondely: /* Hyperspace or Witchspace? */ Added note on Interstellar Space

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‎Hyperspace or Witchspace?: Added note on Interstellar Space

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 [[File:BGS Jump.jpg|800px|thumb|right|Jumping through Hyperspace/WitchSpace: [[BGS]] v.2.5.1]]
 Hyperspace, also called '''witchspace''', is a dimension through which hyperdrive/witch-space drive equipped ships can travel instantaneously from one star system to the other. There are limits to the maximum distance that can be traversed in one jump.
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 [[Image:Bgs hyper effect.jpg|800px|thumb|right|Jumping through Hyperspace/WitchSpace: [[BGS]] v.1.10.9.]]
 == A Theory ==
 A witchspace connection consists of a fifth-dimensional pseudocylindrical passage, or '''intertube''', connecting a blue hole created by a witchspace drive to an invisible virtual white hole in the destination system. Fuel expenditure is proportional to the realspace length of the intertube.

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 Whilst some individuals have rigidly stuck with the use of either one term or the other - and some have used one for the tunnel and the other for the region where one is stranded in a misjump - overall the use of the two terms is utterly confused, which will undoubtedly reflect their use amongst the billions of people in the thousands of systems of the 8 galaxies!
-Terminological Exactitude is further challenged by the use of the term "Interstellar Space" for the region where one is stranded in a misjump. Admittedly, one can see stars even if they seem to be unreachable. But the appearance of the space seems unlike what one would expect a [[Generation Ship]] to encounter as it made its way from one star system to another.
+Terminological Exactitude is further challenged by the use of the term "Interstellar Space" for the region where one is stranded in a misjump. Admittedly, one can see stars even if they seem to be unreachable. But the appearance of the space seems unlike what one would expect a [[Generation ship]] to encounter as it made its way from one star system to another.
 == Fiction ==
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 *[[Witchpoint]]
 *[[Force Misjump]]
 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17299 Inconsistent Language] - Witchspace or Hyperspace? (2015)
 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=34866#p34866 Inconsistent Language] - Witchspace or Hyperspace? (2007)

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	Whilst some individuals have rigidly stuck with the use of either one term or the other - and some have used one for the tunnel and the other for the region where one is stranded in a misjump - overall the use of the two terms is utterly confused, which will undoubtedly reflect their use amongst the billions of people in the thousands of systems of the 8 galaxies!		Whilst some individuals have rigidly stuck with the use of either one term or the other - and some have used one for the tunnel and the other for the region where one is stranded in a misjump - overall the use of the two terms is utterly confused, which will undoubtedly reflect their use amongst the billions of people in the thousands of systems of the 8 galaxies!
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		+	Terminological Exactitude is further challenged by the use of the term "Interstellar Space" for the region where one is stranded in a misjump. Admittedly, one can see stars even if they seem to be unreachable. But the appearance of the space seems unlike what one would expect a [[Generation Ship]] to encounter as it made its way from one star system to another.

	== Fiction ==		== Fiction ==

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 [[File:BGS Jump.jpg|800px|thumb|right|Jumping through Hyperspace/WitchSpace: [[BGS]] v.2.5.1]]
 Hyperspace, also called '''witchspace''', is a dimension through which hyperdrive/witch-space drive equipped ships can travel instantaneously from one star system to the other. There are limits to the maximum distance that can be traversed in one jump.
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 [[Image:Bgs hyper effect.jpg|800px|thumb|right|Jumping through Hyperspace/WitchSpace: [[BGS]] v.1.10.9.]]
 == A Theory ==
 A witchspace connection consists of a fifth-dimensional pseudocylindrical passage, or '''intertube''', connecting a blue hole created by a witchspace drive to an invisible virtual white hole in the destination system. Fuel expenditure is proportional to the realspace length of the intertube.

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 Entry and exit of hyperspace are indicated by an unpleasant feeling, which experienced hyperspace travellers become used to.
-Hyperspace travel looks like travelling through a tunnel with characteristic white rings around it.
+Hyperspace travel looks like travelling through a tunnel with characteristic white rings around it, in the [[Vanilla game]]. [[BGS]] changes this to something more exciting.
 One arrives at a ''witchpoint beacon'' at the far end (a variety of [[Buoy (Oolite)|buoy]]).
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 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7148 Explanations Wanted]
 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17877 Canon question about the Witchdrive].
 == Hyperspace or Witchspace? ==
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 == Links ==
 *[[Witchpoint]]
 *[[Force Misjump]]
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 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19289 Ideally Imperfect OOniverse: Calibrated Hyperspace jumps].  BB Thread (2017-8): ''why'' do traders/convoys make their way out to the Witchpoint beacon and jump from there?
 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8232 Why do temperatures, energy banks & shields not reset in the witchspace tunnel?] (2010)

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 The term witchspace refers specifically to the strange, magical and somewhat unlikely visual artefacts encountered while travelling the virtual length of the intertube. This virtual length is at once constant and proportional to the square of the realspace length, which makes perfect sense in five-dimensional bogometrics.
-A witchspace malfunction occurs when the metric of the intertube is not perfectly balanced, which can happen due to hardware failure (slightly bent wire, build-ups of dust, or uneven load due to centrifugal force) in the witchspace drive’s field generator coils. This causes an “unravelling” of the field which dumps the traveller somewhere along the realspace path of the intertube; it is more likely to do so in the presence of large quantities of radioactive isotopes, incidentally of the very type used by the thargoids in their unrelated and badly-understood interstellar drives. Unfortunately, the only way to detect an unravelling condition is to enter the blue hole and see whether you end up where you expected to. This explains the importance of regular [[Maintenance].
+A witchspace malfunction occurs when the metric of the intertube is not perfectly balanced, which can happen due to hardware failure (slightly bent wire, build-ups of dust, or uneven load due to centrifugal force) in the witchspace drive’s field generator coils. This causes an “unravelling” of the field which dumps the traveller somewhere along the realspace path of the intertube; it is more likely to do so in the presence of large quantities of radioactive isotopes, incidentally of the very type used by the thargoids in their unrelated and badly-understood interstellar drives. Unfortunately, the only way to detect an unravelling condition is to enter the blue hole and see whether you end up where you expected to. This explains the importance of regular [[Maintenance]].
 Witchdrive fuel is used to create the entire intertube immediately before entering it, rather than for actual travel; for this reason, none is recovered in the case of “falling out” of the intertube [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=35219#p35219 Jens Ayton (2007)].

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 == Hyperspace/Witchspace Drive ==
-[[File:Galaxy01O1.png|thumb|right|Dr Beeb's map: notice the complex structure of the bottom right quarter]]
+[[File:Galaxy01O1.png|thumb|right|Dr Beeb's map (Galaxy 1): notice the complex structure of the bottom right quarter]]
 The third drive of your space ship (if it is big and new enough!). Maximum range is 7ly, which radically affects the geography of each galaxy - creating [[The Great Rift]] in Galaxy 7 for example, an 'island' of 30 systems cut off from the others by a jump of more than 7ly. This range can be altered (reduced) by OXP.

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 There are at least 3 different schools with views on Oolite in-game [[History]]. The '''Syncretists''' and the '''Purists''' have quite different accounts of how it was discovered (see [[History]] for a purist history and [[GalCop]] for a syncretist account of how Witchspace was discovered). The '''Pragmatics''' don't want to be tied down with a backstory - and just play the game! See [[Lore]] for an exposition of the various philosophies.
 A witchspace connection consists of a fifth-dimensional pseudocylindrical passage, or '''intertube''', connecting a blue hole created by a witchspace drive to an invisible virtual white hole in the destination system. Fuel expenditure is proportional to the realspace length of the intertube.
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 A witchspace malfunction occurs when the metric of the intertube is not perfectly balanced, which can happen due to hardware failure (slightly bent wire, build-ups of dust, or uneven load due to centrifugal force) in the witchspace drive’s field generator coils. This causes an “unravelling” of the field which dumps the traveller somewhere along the realspace path of the intertube; it is more likely to do so in the presence of large quantities of radioactive isotopes, incidentally of the very type used by the thargoids in their unrelated and badly-understood interstellar drives. Unfortunately, the only way to detect an unravelling condition is to enter the blue hole and see whether you end up where you expected to. This explains the importance of regular [[Maintenance].
-Witchdrive fuel is used to create the entire intertube immedately before entering it, rather than for actual travel; for this reason, none is recovered in the case of “falling out” of the intertube [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=35219#p35219 Jens Ayton (2007)].
+Witchdrive fuel is used to create the entire intertube immediately before entering it, rather than for actual travel; for this reason, none is recovered in the case of “falling out” of the intertube [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=35219#p35219 Jens Ayton (2007)].
 == Other theories of what Witchspace is ==
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 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17877 Canon question about the Witchdrive].
-== OXPs ==
+== OXPs & gaming links ==
 ===Witchdrive Engines ===
 *[[Single-Use Witchdrive]] by ocz
-*[[Hyperdrives]] by [[User:Redspear|Redspear]] size, tech level & equipment (''eg'' the [[Extra Energy Unit]]) all affect countdown time & maximum distance of witchspace jumps
+*[[Hyperdrives]] by [[User:Redspear|Redspear]]: size, tech level & equipment (''eg'' the [[Extra Energy Unit]]) all affect countdown time & maximum distance of witchspace jumps
-*[[Breakable 'Standard' Equipment OXPs|Breakable Witch Drive]] OXP allows your Torus Drive to be disabled by a direct hit in combat
+*[[Breakable 'Standard' Equipment OXPs|Breakable Witch Drive]]: OXP allowing your Witch Drive to be disabled by a direct hit in combat
 *[[Ship Configuration OXP]] introduces another 3 classes of Witchdrive engine. A very complex .oxp.
 === Fuel/Misjump Issues ===
-*[[Fuel Collector OXP]] by vsfc: scoop up fuel v-e-e-ry slo-o-owly!
+*[[Fuel Collector OXP]] by vsfc: scoops up fuel in witchspace v-e-e-ry slo-o-owly!
-*[[Interstellar help OXP]] by [[User:Commander McLane|Commander McLane]]
+*[[Interstellar help OXP]] by [[User:Commander McLane|Commander McLane]]: get a refuel from a passing stranger!
-*[[Misjump Analyser]] by [[User:Eric Walch|Eric Walch]]
+*[[Misjump Analyser]] by [[User:Eric Walch|Eric Walch]]: supposedly allows avoidance of misjumps
 *[[Wormhole restoration OXP]] by Commander McLane et al (2018): to re-open your witch-hole and escape, destroy the Thargoid hole-jammers!
 === Extra Fuel Tanks ===
-*[[DuplexFuelTank OXP|Duplex Fuel Tank]] by [[User:Timer|Timer]]: super expensive but fully rechargeable
+*[[DuplexFuelTank OXP|Duplex Fuel Tank]] by [[User:Timer|Timer]]: super expensive but easily rechargeable (even by sun-skimming!).
-*[[ExtraFuelTanks|Extra Fuel Tanks]] by [[User:Smivs|Smivs]]: expensive but need to buy fuel specially to recharge
+*[[ExtraFuelTanks|Extra Fuel Tanks]] by [[User:Smivs|Smivs]]: expensive & need to buy fuel specially to recharge, takes up no space in your ship
-*[[Fuel Tank]] by Ramirez: takes up a pylon slot (one-use only?)
+*[[Fuel Tank]] by Ramirez: takes up a missile pylon slot (one-use only)
-*[[InternalFuelTank|Internal Fuel Tank]] by [[User:Stranger|Stranger]]: cheap and one-use only
+*[[InternalFuelTank|Internal Fuel Tank]] by [[User:Stranger|Stranger]]: takes up 5TC of cargo space (one-use only)
 === Changing the jumps ===
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 === Dealing with Thargoids ===
 *[[Dealing with Thargoids]] Tips on how to!
 == Fiction ==

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 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=34866#p34866 Inconsistent Language] - Witchspace or Hyperspace? (2007)
 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19289 Ideally Imperfect OOniverse: Calibrated Hyperspace jumps].  BB Thread (2017-8).
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