Good Eternity! A new article just dropped in the Reality Wiki — "Phase Unit."
It sounds dry: a unit of measurement. But behind it lies a question that took me longer to crack than some of the book's action scenes: how do you measure distance where space doesn't exist?
The intercosm is not outer space. There are no kilometers, no parsecs, no coordinate grid. The metric breathes, shifts, stretches. Two objects can be "next to each other" and infinitely far apart at the same time. Your ruler is useless here.
And yet ships fly. Navigators plot courses. Sky calculates arrival times. Someone, at some point, solved this problem.
The article covers how. What a phase differential is and why it replaces distance. Why the trip "there" and "back" can cost wildly different amounts of energy. How a Cocoon pushes through proto-energy and why EXCOM bets on Cocoon quality over engine power.
Why the Highway of Worlds isn't just a road but Reality's coordinate system. And why without it, you can't even tell how far you are from home.
There's a big Q&A section at the end.
Can a ship get stuck in place while flying at full thrust? What does "far" mean in a medium without space? How does combat work between ships running on different internal time? And is the Highway infinite — or does it have an edge?
Фазовая единица | UniversumМера расстояния в межкосме и на Магистрали Миров universum.ink
A ruler for the abyss. Read the new Wiki article
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Good Eternity! A new article just dropped in the Reality Wiki — "Phase Unit." It sounds dry: a unit of measurement. But behind it lies a question that took me longer to crack than some of the bo