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== Access and Exploitation ==
Machines can likewise utilize the nowhere. The timeless nature of it allows for signals to be sent through it at faster-than-light speed, which artificial intelligences such as [[M-Bot]] use to facilitate the high-speed processing necessary for them to function.{{book ref|sky2|18}} Regular machines also use this to communicate across star systems, 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 ===
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Ordinary people can access the nowhere through '''nowhere portals''', gateways that allow one to physically enter and exit the nowhere. They are typically surrounded by numerous symbols of unknown meaning, suggesting that they might've been artificially constructed. When active, they create a wormhole that connects the physical space with the nowhere. This allows for the mining
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 conjure 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 surrounded by a ring with
There are also the '''nowalks''', which likewise seem to somehow connect physical 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}}
== Trivia ==
* ''Nowhere''
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