Difference between revisions of "Nowhere"

|universe=[[Skyward UniverseCytoverse]]

| Our ancestors were frightened of what lived in the nowhere.

| [[Spensa]]{{book ref|sky1|55}}

| I was only in the nowhere for a moment, but in that place, time seemed to have no meaning.

| [[Spensa]]{{book ref|sky2|9}}

Interacting with the nowhere leaves cytonics with a sense of cold and a strong headache for hours afterwards.{{book ref|sky1|epilogue}} Both of those effects seem to lessen the moreas a person's interactsskill with nowherecytonics grows.{{ref|text=In ''[[Starsight]]'', Spensa doesn't have the same experiences}}

Nowhere can be accessed by any [[cytonic]] by focusing and meditating. Getting close to or inside nowhere is crucial to most, if not all cytonicof their abilities.{{book ref|sky2|9}} Chief among them is FTL travel, which requires the cytonic to enter and exit nowhere completely. The cytonicThey can do so by themselves, but they can also take with them passengers and objects.{{book ref|sky2|42}} The latter seems to require mechanical aid in the form of '''cytonic hyperdrive'''.{{book ref|sky2|53}}

Machines can likewise utilize nowhere. The timeless nature of it allows for signals to be sent through it at faster-than-light speed., which Artificialartificial Intelligencesintelligences such as [[M-Bot]] use this to facilitate high-speed processing necessary for them to function.{{book ref|sky2|18}} Regular machines also utilizeuse this system to communicate across star systems. This can be used, both to send messages between people on various worlds, and to control drones from a safe distance without the light-speed lag.{{book ref|sky2|14}}

| Nowhere portals are stable openings, like wormholes leading into the nowhere.

| [[Kauri]]{{book ref|sky2|25}}

Though it's unclear how the nowhere portals were made or by whom, the process can be recreated, as the [[Superiority]]'s Department of Protective Services has managed to createconjure a nowhere portal of their own. That portal takes on the appearance of a black sphere hovering above the ground, roughly the size of a person's head. When a person touches the sphere, they appear to stretch towards it before being absorbed into it.{{book ref|sky2|34}} Like its predecessors, Superiority's portal is also surrounded by a ring with the alien writing etched into it, suggesting that the symbols are crucial to crossing the barrier between realities.{{book ref|sky2|45}}

There are also the '''nowalks''', which likewise seem to somehow connect tophysical space with the nowhere. Those nowalks were used by human military during the second [[Human War]]. However, what precisely they are -- and if "nowalk" isn't simply another name for a nowhere portal -- is uncertain.{{book ref|sky2|4}}

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