Witch-space referred to the ‘corridor’ or ‘transit tube’ through which the hyperspacing ship travelled during the jump. Its precise origin is uncertain, but it seems to stem from the risk inherent in the early hyperspace technology. It was around this time that the phrase ‘witch-space’ entered the Commander’s lexicon. Unsupervised jumps were extremely dangerous. They were known for a certain sensitivity in operation, with the dangers of a misconfigured jump being listed as ‘atomic re-organisation’ and ‘time displacement’. Hyperspacing ships required external help to initiate the jump. The ‘Faraway’ jump system was noted for its complexity in operation, requiring extensive pre-jump configuration by station based “Faraway Orientation Systems Controllers” (FOSC or SysCon). Ultimately these hosted hundreds of channels, ‘lines’ for ships to travel through. It took centuries for the complex series of monitoring satellites, branch lines, stop points, and rescue stations to be built using sublight technology along the major routes. The original hyperspace systems that were made commercially available were known as the ‘Faraway’ Jump systems. Circa 2800 AD – Faraway Jump (Hyperspace Type 0) Over the centuries hyperspace technology has been refined.
But it wasn’t until the 2800s that consumer ships began to take advantage of the technology in large numbers. Precisely how it works is something of a mystery, certainly by the time of Elite: Dangerous it appears to be part of the dual function ‘Frame Shift Drive’, operating in a mode which allows you to travel the, literally, astronomical distances between stars in just a few seconds.īut it wasn’t always thus in the Elite Dangerous universe. Drew is no longer actively maintaining his lore pages, and they may not be accurate post v2.4 of Elite Dangerous.
Elite dangerous hyperspace jump archive#
This is an archive of Drew Wagar‘s lore guide, available here with his kind permission.
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