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Hyperspace Lanes

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Hyperspace Lanes	comment	So, you have Faster-Than-Light Travel, and you want to travel to Rigel, but first you have to stop through Tau Ceti, even though you don't have any business there, and stopping there makes the journey longer. Why is this? Whether due to some law of physics, some artificial regulation, because FTL travel is dependent on some manner of gate(s) or stabilizer(s), or simply because Hyperspace Is a Scary Place, you have to follow the Hyperspace Lanes. Hyperspace Lanes allow space to have choke points and pace the story in space since you have to make stops along the way between jumps anyway. This also helps facilitate Hyperspeed Ambushes and Space Piracy as predictable avenues of faster-than-light travel make for planning attacks on enemy fleets or unwitting travelers much easier. For lanes that are created by a series of structures, this also allows opportunities for an ambusher to sabotage the system and force their target out of FTL when they aren't expecting it. These lanes typically connect only the closest systems to each other. Not as silly as might be expected, as the stars of a galaxy are always in motion and even the tiny pull of distant stars may bring a ship seriously off course at great distances. Having a few lanes for which the movement and gravity of nearby stars is extremely well mapped out might be a lot safer than just blazing straight through a star cluster whose gravitational effects are only reasonably well estimated. Related to, but rarely overlaps with Portal Network, typically only if any given gate is limited in terms of potential destinations. Sub-Trope of Faster-Than-Light Travel, and the sci-fi equivalent of Stay on the Path. Examples
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_19350db9	comment	Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars uses warp points to randomly connect systems. Since star systems are now a part of the galactic map, it also takes 1 turn to travel from one warp point in a system to another, adding to the travel time. This can allow for strategic chokeholds, especially since your mobile factories can build fortifications at them, which block passage to unfriendlies. Wormholes are also present, but they're separate systems in this version. Also, a random event may allow your ship to go "off-road" to study an anomaly in deep space, but the ship then automatically returns to the nearby system, and it takes a few turns at most. As before, you can eventually research and build gates at warp points (1 per system) that link your systems into a Portal Network. This allows ships to travel directly between systems.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_1bfb9fe0	comment	Endless Sky, another fan made Spiritual Successor to Escape Velocity, also has hyperspace lanes, but you can jump from anywhere in the system rather than having to be on the outside edge or at a specific jump point. At one point in the main storyline, you obtain a Jump Drive that lets you jump directly to a "nearby" system (within a radius of the one you're in) regardless of whether there's a lane to it or not, in many cases letting you skip intermediate jumps or access systems that were previously inaccessible due to not having a lane to them.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_1cc84819	comment	Merchant of Venus: Travel goes along hyperspace lanes (unless one manages to find usable jumpgates). Finding routes (successions of systems) that allow for especially lucrative voyages is a main key to success.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_1e82ffe9	comment	2300 AD: had FTL limited to a maximum distance of 7.8 light years and trips had to end near a stellar-mass object. Combine that with the real map of the stars around our solar system and you get choke points, dead end routes, and stars (or even connected networks of them) that are just beyond the distance limit and so are completely unknown except by sending slower than light space probes. When there is a gap between star systems, ships will sometimes either carry extra fuel, or visit a Space Station maintained for the purpose, if the motive is strong enough.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: The novels subvert this trope by having Casual Interstellar Travel of the vanilla variety (by hyperspace) for everyone, but featuring a wormhole network that allows for instantaneous travel between its termini, thus radically cutting on a delivery times. Naturally, the heroes' homeworld has the biggest bunch of those holes. Wormholes in the Honorverse don't really form a network, though. Various wormhole termini are usually too far apart for anyone to get from one to another, without hyperdrives that also allow FTL travel. They just supply a few very convenient shortcuts between some places. Even in the Vanilla Hyperspace, there are also Grav Waves, for lack of a better term, "wrinkles" in hyperspace, that ships can use special energy sails to ride on to cut their travel time down considerably. These waves end up becoming de facto hyperspace lanes in their own right. And before they learned how to do that, hyperspace lanes existed because people trying to map hyperspace tended to die horribly by hitting grav-waves. So once there was a known safe route, people stuck to it.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_2acb12c5	comment	X-Universe: The series as a whole uses a Portal Network for FTL travel. Jumpgates connect only to a single other gate, no system has more than four gates, and which gate connects to which does not change, barring meddling by the Ancients or, in X3: Terran Conflict and its expansion Albion Prelude, the player making use of the Hub. This is an Ancient-built structure that interposes itself between a pair of gates and can do so with up to three pairs at a time. X: Rebirth has "space highways" similar to the trade lanes in Freelancer, which are meandering one-way paths of energy that will propel ships to high speeds in order to get between different zones (points of interest) in planetary orbit; ships are free to move around and exit highways at any point. Super-highways propel ships to FTL speeds and are used to get to different planets within a solar system, though they cannot be exited from until the endpoint is reached. Jumpgates are still used to get between different solar systems.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In the Justice League story "Starcrossed", the lanes are kept open by several "hyperspace bypasses" built on planets in real space along the way. The effect on the planet such that all life would be wiped out. If the term "hyperspace bypass" sounds familiar and the whole thing sounds like a less comedic version of the beginning of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where Earth must be demolished so the highway can go through, that's 'cause it is.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_353b7af3	comment	Star Trek: Discovery has a system that allows for near instantaneous travel through pathways used by certain spacefaring amoeba-like animals. A trip that would take days or weeks now takes seconds, and is undetectable. However, it's a lot less troublesome than the usual idea (where the transwarp conduit's opening might be on just the other side of that Klingon blockade or something.) and allowed for Teleport Spam around one enemy ship at one point.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_3f918bcd	comment	Starfire uses "warp points", similar in basic concept to Alderson Points, but without the need for a specialised drive to use them. Just go to the point and the ship disappears and reappears at the other end in a different solar system. Some systems have many such points, making them places which see a lot of use, and are highly desirable strategically. Warp points are rated according to how big a ship they can admit without it being torn apart by gravitational stress, and also whether they can be detected easily. "Open" warp points can be detected from some distance away, but a "closed" warp point cannot be found until a ship blunders into it. The openness of a point is not connected to that of the corresponding point at the end of the transit, making closed points very dangerous to those on the wrong end.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop: Hyperspace is used for high-speed travel between planets in the solar system without momentum or orbital mechanics getting in the way. However, because of the way the hypergate infrastructure is designed, it is required that you go through a tunnel or chain of linked hypergates in order to not fall back into normal space. As a result, you can only travel along fixed paths, which have to be built and maintained in deep space and they must follow special orbits to maintain a consistent link between two planets as their relative positions in the Solar System change. When two planets are opposite the Sun, the hyperspace route is blocked. The hyperspace route between Mars and Jupiter, two hubs of civilization, is known as "Route 66" in reference to the long interstate highway running across most of the southern United States.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_4937d0d9	comment	In Sins of a Solar Empire, ships can only jump from certain from a planet's gravity well to certain other planets' gravity wells, as well as only being able to jump to other star systems from the star in the system they're in.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_49a88442	comment	Justified in Final Fantasy XIV: teleportation magic requires a person to attune themselves to an aetheryte at the intended destination first, so when a person's body enters The Lifestream as part of the teleporation spell, it can travel to and rematerialize at the desired point. The spell "Flow" can allow a person to teleport without the need for an aetheryte, allowing them to travel anywhere in theory. In practice, however, not having an aetheryte to serve as a beacon to anchor to from the Lifestream means you run the risk of never emerging from the Lifestream ever again — and even if you do, you may end up going blind or losing your ability to use magic, if you're lucky.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_53a73ca0	comment	In the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "The Citadel", the Jedi lead a rescue mission to save the captive Tarkin and a Jedi Master as a result of this. It is apparently simple enough that it is something that a person can memorize. Each of them has half of it, which leads to a problem when Ahsoka ends up having the Jedi half. She will only give it to the Jedi council, while Tarkin will only give his half to the Chancellor's office.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_548cf63	comment	FTL travel in The Flight Engineer is reliant on naturally occurring jump points that only connect to a few other points.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_56fa0ea4	comment	Hyperspace Lanes are also used in the Final Frontier mod of Civilization IV, to justify the construction of roads in outer space. They are essential to the gameplay, as ships can only move one or two squares per turn. Unfortunately, this also means they are constant targets for Space Pirates.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: In the Heaven's Reach shard, interstellar travel is achieved through the Grand Canals, a network of routes where the laws of physics were weakened in the ancient past to allow ships to traverse hundreds of light years in days or weeks at the cost of risking dangerous physical and mental breakdowns.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_6108ba8d	comment	The Last Jedi provides concrete evidence for how fast it's possible to travel through well-known hyperspace lanes. Finn and Rose fly from Crait to Canto Bight — which according to the official map is on the opposite side of the galaxy — and return in less than a day.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_61de95d6	comment	In Freelancer, there are two different systems of Hyperspace Lanes. First are Trade Lanes within the systems. You can enter a Lane at any one of the Trade Lane Rings that are spaced along it, and you can cross an entire system in seconds this way. They're not explicitly stated to be faster-than-light, but the extent to which they are faster than even cruise engines implies that they're either FTL or close to light speed. If someone (usually a pirate) shoots at a ring enough, it will shut down and all traffic going through it will be forced out of the Trade Lane. As Trade Lanes are purely artificial constructs, less inhabited systems often lack them entirely. Second are Jump Gates and Jump Holes between systems. Jump Gates and Holes form the basis of interstellar faster-than-light travel in Freelancer, and are functionally identical, save for the large ring and physical barrier to prevent unauthorized use around gates. Each gate or hole is only linked with one exit and they're usually on the periphery of systems. Most Jump Gates can be found at the ends of Trade Lanes, while Jump Holes are often harder to find.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_62570927	comment	This applies to the Marvel Universe; for interstellar travel most civilizations use these, and a major one is located in Earth's solar system. It's because of this that so many aliens have found and interfered with the Earth over millions of years.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_62aa95a6	comment	The Lost Fleet uses this, however a more effective Portal Network is set up in important systems and the FTL pathways are almost forgotten about until the events of the series. There are strange lights in jumpspace. However, no one has figured out how to explore this dimension (ships always travel on a fixed path between two jump points), so most sailors think they're lights of their ancestors.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_647fad80	comment	Ascendancy: The game has "starlanes" — normal blue links usually taking a few turns to ride and red links that require improved drives to navigate in a reasonable time. There's also expendable devices blocking a starlane or speeding up everyone in it. There is also a trick to making lane travel instantaneous, which involves developing a device that, when fired at a star lane (even red) momentarily destabilizes it, causing all ships currently using it to end up at their destination instantaneously. While this is a one-shot device, there is nothing to prevent players from building specialized ships filled with these devices and use them to create an interstellar highway of sorts, moving warships from one end of your interstellar empire to the other in several turns (as opposed to hundreds). The Recall device instantly transports the ship equipped with it to the race's home system, no matter where it is. Very useful if the homeworld is threatened.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_6a307d4	comment	Justified in Titanfall: Demeter is the farthest human-colonized outpost that can be reached via FTL on a single tank. The Frontier worlds lie beyond this point so anyone looking to pass to the Frontier must go to Demeter first and refuel before they can progress to the Frontier. The Militia manage to cripple IMC in the penultimate story battle by destroying the fuel depot there, preventing them from reinforcing troops in the Frontier.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_6e0e351	comment	Escape Velocity: Ships can only jump from a given system to certain other (usually) nearby systems without stopping in other star systems along the way. Ships can enter hyperspace so long as they're far enough from the system center and at a full stop and can jump to any linked system from anywhere far enough from the system center. A consequence of this is that, broadly speaking, ships can leave any direction but enter from a predictable direction, making entering a system more dangerous than leaving as entry points make a great place for a Hyperspeed Ambush. The engines of the first two games allowed unidirectional links, but neither official scenario used it, leaving it for mods, while Nova's engine automatically adds reciprocity. The Polaris tunneling organ in the third game (Nova) allows players to enter hyperspace without having to stop the ship, a multi-jump organ can allow players to make 10 or less jumps for the time and energy of one. Nova also has an unlockable hypergate network operating under lane rules (the advantage being that while there are only a few functional hypergates remaining, those tend to be in or near hub systems for the lane network, and the hypergate trip itself takes no time, so access to the hypergate network and keeping it in mind during path planning can shore off months from longer journeys).
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_71715cd5	comment	Part of the plot in Thrawn: Alliances is that the hyperspace lanes in the Unknown Regions are so poorly mapped that the Chiss are dependent on Force-sensitive children to find safe routes to other systems in the area.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_72b6933f	comment	Heroic Age: FTL travel seems to work this way for the most part. Most civilizations travel across space on artificial "Starways" built by Precursors, which only go to specific places. Travelling off of a Starway is possible, but it requires a powerful psychic to navigate for you, and said navigation seems to be based largely on intuition rather than anything concrete. The Silver Tribe, being psychics by default, have little trouble doing this, while humanity only has a single known individual capable of such a feat. All other species are entirely dependent on the Starways.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars has humans reliant on fixed "nodespace" routes for interstellar travel and the Zuul can "rip" temporary nodespace routes. Unfortunately, while very fast, this method also annoys the Energy Beings native to that dimension. While humans only mildly annoy them (imagine a neighbor who randomly walks through rooms in your house), Zuul forcing their way through tends to piss them off (this is the neighbor with a battering ram who doesn't use doors). Both races occasionally have their colonies attacked by these so-called Spectres. And if you don't use energy weapons, you're screwed, as ballistic shots and missiles go right through them without damage. They also show up during battles in subspace, but those are pretty rare and can only happen with human/human, zuul/zuul, and human/zuul match-ups.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect uses Mass Relays (ancient space stations that function by creating a virtually mass-free "corridor" of space-time between each other) for interstellar travel. Even using standard faster-than-light travel requires ships to dump excess static and heat on galactic bodies, so going the long way between clusters that otherwise have mass relays is impractical. Due to a horrific Bug War that occurred due to reckless mass relay network exploration, explorer ships now take the slow way to an unexplored relay terminal before activating that route.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_7a22e4e9	comment	In Starforged, the sci-fi standalone expansion for Ironsworn, faster-than-life travel takes place in a series of drifts. A sidebar explains that FTL travel is "undertaken in a series of discrete segments" to encourage players to explore, with characters inclined to scout around the anchorage while their e-drive recharges. This matches up to how the original Ironsworn runs expeditions.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_7b7a1a8f	comment	Star Wars: The High Republic: Hyperspace is a bit less understood in this era, but it's still well-mapped in the Core Region. The series starts with a disaster where a freighter heading to the Outer Rim breaks up in hyperspace, its pieces emerging into realspace as near-lightspeed kinetic projectiles that could kill planets. The Supreme Chancellor is forced to ban hyperspace travel in a large region of space until she is certain there will be no repeat disasters. Then they discover the exact cause; the freighter nearly ran into a Nihil ship that was crossing their hyperspace lane, and broke apart trying to avoid it. Hyperspace experts insist that this is not possible—every time a ship uses a hyperdrive it is essentially shunted off into its own alternate universe, meaning there is literally nothing for it to collide with. The Nihil and their mysterious "Path engines" break the rules of how hyperspace works to use impossible shortcuts even inside gravity wells. 150 years before the Great Disaster, people made careers out of charting hyperspace routes. These include official organizations like the Republic Pathfinders and independent hyperspace prospectors who make money off claims of charting new routes. However, some like Radicaz Dobbs (AKA Sunshine) take this career to rather dangerous extremes, even killing people who might have discovered a planet he also discovered or marooning those who work with him on a Death World.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_7c19a801	comment	FTL: Faster Than Light uses lanes to go from point to point and then lanes from sector to sector, a small option can be enabled to show which points you can jump to from another point your mouse is hovering over (great for planning with the Rebel fleet on your tail). Players can acquire an augment that allows them to jump to any previously explored point in a sector.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_7dad8347	comment	In FreeSpace and Freespace 2 travel between systems is done at jump nodes, essentially the end points of established wormholes that travel between systems.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller: Jump routes are limited mainly by the presence of fuel stops. As most ships can only jump one parsec at a time, that means that most traffic follows places where the stars are one parsec apart. A ship equipped for the purpose can obtain fuel at a gas giant without landing in port, but it is still necessary to be in-system. A ship can theoretically jump in whatever direction it wants. However, coming out of jump in deep-space is disastrous without fuel supplies to get back, and there is almost never any reason to do so. Before the invention of jump-3 (3 parsec jump), one Terran Confederation ship during the Interstellar wars carried extra jump fuel in drop tanks. That option is still available during the Third Imperium, as is jumping as much as 6 parsecs. Normal merchant traffic seldom has motive for either of these because of the extra space the jump engines take up; more then one parsec is usually given to warships and sometimes to merchantmen running specialized contracts. Normal traffic abides by the one parsec rule, and thus policymakers have to still assume that when building infrastructure.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: The Borg use a network of transwarp conduits, allowing them to go almost anywhere in the galaxy in a matter of minutes. Star Trek: Voyager also encountered a network of underspace corridors built by the Vaadwaur and maintained by the Turei. As Voyager is a long way from home, they're naturally interested in using them, and as per usual hostile aliens would prefer that they don't. Star Trek: Discovery has a system that allows for near instantaneous travel through pathways used by certain spacefaring amoeba-like animals. A trip that would take days or weeks now takes seconds, and is undetectable. However, it's a lot less troublesome than the usual idea (where the transwarp conduit's opening might be on just the other side of that Klingon blockade or something.) and allowed for Teleport Spam around one enemy ship at one point.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Galactic Civilizations III introduces "hypergates" to the series, explained as the various races taking the obsolete Jump Gates and repurposing them. While hyperdrive travel can be used to travel anywhere, civilizations can now set up a network of hypergates that massively speed up travel between them. Be warned though: those lanes are open to anyone, and other civilizations can use your hypergate network once it's been set up.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_85b998b	comment	Conquest: Frontier Wars has static wormholes connecting systems. The Celareons have the technology to make temporary wormholes to any system. The first mention of this is when they use it to save Captain Thomas Blackwell's corvette from falling into a black hole. This is the main reason why the Mantis are attacking them: they want the technology. And some Celareons are willing to deal with the Mantis in the hope that the bugs will leave them alone after this.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_85ccdf78	comment	Galaxy on Fire II has this, overlapping with Portal Network. Nearly all systems have a jumpgate orbiting one of its planets (the design varies from race to race but the overall look is the same). The jumpgate allows a ship to travel from one system to another (you're even allowed to pick which planet in the target system you want to go to, although that's likely a gameplay shortcut), as long as they're connected on the starmap. Going to a remote system may take as many as 6 jumps, although that usually involves entering the gate, jumping, turning around, entering the other gate, etc. Other methods of FTL travel are later discovered, including the Void wormholes which are used by the Voids to raid planets. A scientist named Khador studies the wormholes and uses certain crystals from Void space to build an instantaneous jump drive to any system, although each use drains energy cells, which must be replenished at starbases. The Khador Drive can even be used to access systems not accessible via jumpgates (including Void space). In the "Valkyrie" DLC, Khador and Deep Science start building ships with integrated Khador Drives, freeing you from lugging one around everywhere. Interestingly, the prologue started with the Player Character's own hyperdrive malfunctioning. No mention of this method of travel after that, although, since we never see large ships (including freighters) using gates, it's implied that they have their own hyperdrives that can go even where there are no gates. Notably, you start the game (after the hyperdrive malfunction) in an isolated system and have to wait for a Terran battleship to arrive in the area to hitch a ride.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_90f18253	comment	Played with a bit in Battletech. Kearny-Fuchida Drives have a maximum range of around thirty light-years, but contrary to popular belief in and out of universe they are not restricted to exiting hyperspace at the "jump points" within a solar system: Close proximity (relatively speaking) to a star or other large gravity well is just about the only place where safely returning to normal space is a problem, so in theory it's entirely possible for a jumpship to take a shortcut by dropping out of hyper in the dark between the stars to recharge its drives. But in practice this is rarely done, because it comes with significant risks: KF Drives are pretty delicate bits of equipment, and the most reliable way of recharging them after a jump without causing excessive wear on the core is to use a large solar sail array. For obvious reasons this doesn't work well in deep space.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_93f31be7	comment	X: Rebirth has "space highways" similar to the trade lanes in Freelancer, which are meandering one-way paths of energy that will propel ships to high speeds in order to get between different zones (points of interest) in planetary orbit; ships are free to move around and exit highways at any point. Super-highways propel ships to FTL speeds and are used to get to different planets within a solar system, though they cannot be exited from until the endpoint is reached. Jumpgates are still used to get between different solar systems.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_9a0c0ffa	comment	The History of the Galaxy books have this with Hypersphere and its "horizontal" tension lines stretching between large stellar bodies in relative vicinity. Normally, ships use these lines to guide them to their destination. Originally, ships had to "surface" into normal space at each "node" (i.e. system) before "submerging" again. This allows for choke points and ambushes during the Galactic Wars. However, later advances allow ships to "change lines" while remaining in Hypersphere, throwing that tactic out the window. Later books have The Federation discover the center of Hypersphere, where all the "vertical" tension lines converge into one point, and find out how to use this "hub" to travel "up" and "down" any vertical to any system in the galaxy. While this would seem to indicate a new period of unrestricted galactic exploration, the government quickly puts a lid on the knowledge and prevents travel into unexplored systems, fearing an advanced enemy that, with the knowledge of the "hub", could strike anywhere without warning.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_9fb9bec4	comment	Outsider goes into great detail on why FTL travel is limited to jumps between nearby star systems.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_a0bfcecb	comment	Haegemonia: Legions of Iron has naturally-occuring wormholes leading to fixed points in other systems. Interstellar travel is restricted to these, except for the final missions, where the humans manage to modify Darzok wormhole-blocking technology to allow a fleet to jump directly to a beacon that can be placed in any system. This can, essentially, allow you to avoid the entire enemy line of defense and go straight for the HQ.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_a15c03fd	comment	Starfinder: After the Drift Crisis is resolved, stable "drift lanes" emerge from the notoriously unstable plane that can be used to travel to travel between the planets at either end in exactly one week instead of rolling three or five d6s to determine travel time.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_a1970a85	comment	Fading Suns has the portal version with the added bonus of requiring "keys" to access a given gate.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_a2a386c9	comment	Orion's Arm: Wormholes in OA are continually open and both ends have to be towed into place at sub-relativistic speeds, but once in place they allow travel across lightyears in a matter of weeks and can be arrayed in chains crossing known space. For slower-than-light travel there's the Beamrider Network (a network of particle beam generators which propel spaceships) and the Lightways (a network of laser transmitters and receivers which send data, including people in virtual form).
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_a439eb16	comment	Coriolis: The Third Horizon: Portals are continually open wormholes usually found in close orbit around a star. They're believed to have been created by a Precursor civilization and humanity doesn't know how to build new ones, but were able to destroy them during the Horizon Wars, cutting the star cluster known as the Third Horizon off from the First and Second. Most colonized stars have one or two portals, requiring most interstellar travelers to pass through a chain of portals, but the Horizon's unofficial capital of Kua has four.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_afeeacf6	comment	In The Force Awakens the map to Luke Skywalker that everyone is looking for describes one of these through the Unknown Regions, though the idea is never mentioned in the film directly.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_b5298d8	comment	The Tal-Seto jump points in Mission Critical connects nearby stars. It's initially hypothesized that every star in the galaxy is part of the network. After the protagonist travels to the Bad Future, he is told that the network was fully mapped out some time before that point and only constitutes a small part of the galaxy. The ELFs theorize that other networks may exist, but getting to them would require sublight travel to stars not on the network.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_b618b457	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has hyperspace routes as analogous to British motorways; the Vogon Constructor Fleet demolishes Earth to make way for a new hyperspace express route.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_b7870bb0	comment	In The Sirantha Jax Series, travel through grimspace requires following beacons and nodes created by the Makers in ancient times. The beacons are the only way of navigating in grimspace, as normal GPS systems don't work in it and maps are useless while inside thanks to its strange properties. Problem is, only people born with the "J-gene" (called jumpers) can still perceive the beacons while making grimspace jumps. Grimspace travel is like a addictive drug for jumpers, giving them a orgasmic high. It's also highly destructive to the mind and body of jumpers, ultimately leading to either a mental breakdown or jumpers developing brain lesions that eventually cause them to make a jump and come out of it brain dead (this is called "navigator burnout syndrome" and means that most jumpers don't make it past thirty).
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_b952005	comment	At the beginning of Endless Space, you're limited to this mode of travel. Later, you can discover technology to utilize wormholes that are generated randomly throughout the galaxy and another technology allowing your ships to go "off-road", even though this path is way longer. Either way, ships at FTL are unable to change direction.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_b995397d	comment	Space Pirates and Zombies has similar gameplay and likewise uses hyperspace lanes.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_bbe35da	comment	In Christopher Nuttall's Ark Royal trilogy FTL travel is dependent on gravimetric "tramlines". Most routes that human ships can handle are five lightyears or shorter, but the enemy can go much, much, further.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Warp travel theoretically lets you go anywhere if you're willing to put up with the inherent dangers of traveling through Space Hell. That said, the Warp has "currents" that make travel in certain directions easier than others, so a ship going from Calth to Hydraphur will get there faster than one moving from Kar Duniash to Macragge, even though the latter is a shorter distance in realspace. When sub-sector maps are drawn up for Battlefleet Gothic, this makes them resemble half-finished connect-the-dots puzzles, where to get from point A to point B requires arcing through points C, D and E instead of moving the inch or two to B. The galaxy has since been cut in half by perpetual Warp rifts that not only apply Chokepoint Geography to the Hyperspace Lanes, the part of the galaxy on the other side of the Astronomican can't even use Warp travel. It's mentioned that planetary gravity prevents entering/exiting the Warp, so ships need to emerge at the edges of the system and coast towards the planet. How often this actually applies, and the distances (and time) involved depends on the writer. There's also the Webway, a labyrinthine highway in the warp constructed by The Old Ones. It has set entrances/exits called Webway gates. If a traveller isn't close enough to enter it, or its destination isn't close enough it, then they have to make their way there the old-fashioned way, for at least part of the trip. Only the Eldar and the Dark Eldar have access to the Webway, the latter live inside it in fact, and they use it because normal Warp travel is extremely dangerous to them, mostly due to the Eldritch Abomination that will eat their souls if they ever go inside.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_bf13a7d0	comment	In Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages, the standard FTL engine is the anchor drive, which lets ships go faster than light by fixing them in place and letting the universe rotate around them. The only safe places to do this are the Rings and the Clipways, which are areas that have been removed of all debris that can impact a ship in anchorspace and obliterate it.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_c506565e	comment	The hyperdrive used by ships in the Vatta's War series of books allow them to travel to any nearby system they choose, but if they travel to systems marked on their charts as off limits, they run the risk of running into all sorts of hazards ranging from stellar debris to unfriendly natives. Less scrupulous starship captains occasionally use these off-limits star systems as meeting locations off the beaten path to conduct illegal business or merely to shave time off their trips.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_c758b6fd	comment	In Voidskipper while a Voidskipper can - strictly speaking - bash its way through to wherever it wants to go through sheer brute force, they can go vastly faster if they don't have to worry about running into stuff in the way. To facilitate this, chains of laser armed space stations have been built in interstellar space to clear specified travel corridors of errant dust and gas. The net effect of this is to create an artificial network of lanes.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_cbf0ee94	comment	EVE Online: Most of the map (commonly called "Known Space") uses fixed stargate pairs to allow travel between systems. However, Capital Ships can use their Jump Drives to ignore stargate connections, and Titans can even create temporary Jump Bridges to throw allied ships through. There also exist randomly appearing Wormholes, which can connect systems for a few hours. The generally hostile and unknown regions known as "Wormhole Space" has no stargates, and travel between systems can only be done using wormholes. However, every system in wormhole space has one or more "static" wormholes which will always re-open with new destinations every time they collapse. The appearance of an alien race invading the galaxy severely disrupted the normal network of stargates, culminating in a day when every gate in the galaxy went offline, and when the gates started coming back online, there were 27 systems whose stargates had been destroyed. The invaders then constructed their own stargates in those 27 systems, linking them to each other, but the only way to get in or out of that isolated region is to hope for a random incoming wormhole.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_d109f322	comment	Andromeda: Slipstream works like this, with several, constantly shifting, "routes" that pilots need to string together to get from one point to another. Slipstream travel must also be handled by a living pilot, rather than an AI, because slipstream navigation is heavily reliant on pilot instinct rather than set rules. Several star systems are strategically important because you need to travel through them on your way from one slipstream to another. Just the place to lay in ambush, or place a BFG IN SPACE!. In one episode, they're trying to get to Tarn-Vedra (the lost capital planet of the old Commonwealth) by following a ridiculously complicated sequence of slipstream routes. Several of the steps are jumps between different galaxies. Of course, they are following the diary of a guy named Hasturi, nicknamed "the Mad Perseid". It's a wonder he didn't have them go through the Route of Ages. The Tarn-Vedrans intentionally messed with the slipstream during the start of the Long Night to get rid of any easy paths to their system; cutting off the 'freeways' and only leaving a long, twisting 'dirt road' leading in or out.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_d4f11a60	comment	Elite: For some not especially well-explained reason, the maximum distance it's possible to travel in hyperspace is seven light-years. Ships apparently don't have to exit hyperspace at a designated exit point, but not doing so would leave you with a bit of a problem if your FTL drive packed up. In Elite: Dangerous, similar limits are in place, though with a much larger range, up to roughly 45 light-years. This allows for dynamic remapping of lanes between stars, but fuel consumption increases non-linearly as range increases, with the weight of the ship, cargo, and even the remaining fuel changing the jump range. This can result in the hilarious scenario in which you can only achieve a longer-than-normal jump range by expending too much fuel to make the jump.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_d7765410	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which began on radio with exactly this premise: the ostensible reson for obliterating the planet Earth is to clear an obstacle from a proposed intergalactic hyperspatial bypass to be built, for your comfort and convenience, through your star-system. Regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. note OK, so this could also be Literature, Live-Action TV, Computer Game, Comic-Book and then Film. But it began on radio...
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_e235270c	comment	In Stellaris, the hyperspace network is the main form of FTL, allowing for chokepoints and other forms of tactical "space geography". The origins of these networks is never explored, and when a precursor homeworld or other hidden system is discovered, it is (usually) just added to the map with a new hyperlane. Alternatives come up in the late game (as well as the early game for Eager Explorers, who have to research hyperlane travel instead), but hyperlanes continue to define the shape of the galaxy throughout.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_e5da2837	comment	In Naev, a fan made Spiritual Successor to Escape Velocity, hyperspace works much the same as in Escape Velocity, but with the caveat that hyperspace travel is limited to specific jump points in the system, with each jump point being paired to a corresponding point in another system, rather than being a generic coming and going location.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: The gravity wells of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies project a "mass shadow" into hyperspace; if a vessel crashes into the shadow, it will be ripped back into Realspace, usually too close to the celestial body in question for there to be much hope of evading it. Planets struck by vessels from hyperspace have suffered everything from millions dying to complete shattering of the planet. To decrease the likelihood of this, modern hyperdrives automatically drop a ship into realspace when approaching a mass shadow (which is only of limited help if the shadow belongs to a star or a black hole), and nearly all hyperspace travel uses already plotted routes. This also means that new hyperspace routes are charted only once every decade or so, as doing so requires actually sending the ship through the route to make sure it works. For the reasons mentioned above, this is a dangerous crapshoot; that new trade route isn't going to be very useful if the trading outpost it led to gets blown to smithereens by your bumbling attempts to get there. Pirates, the Empire, and the Yuuzhan Vong have taken advantage of this, either moving asteroids or placing gravity well generators on routes in order to force vessels into realspace for boarding. There are several major trade routes going from one end of the Galaxy to another; smaller but slower routes branching off them to individual systems; and little-known routes that are faster than average but have the danger of coming too close to stars or black holes to compensate. When no known routes to a location exist, travel is done by a series of mini-jumps with stops after each jump to check for potential hazards and plot accordingly. Over time, routes can become unusable due to the natural movement of celestial bodies through space. To make matters more interesting, a large portion of the galaxy is inaccessible to hyperdrive due to Hyperspace Disturbance and requires unconventional technology to get to. And yes, several stories point out how the fastest way to get from point A to point B lies anywhere but along a direct route. Similarly, the dense Core is all but impossible to traverse due to the large and densely clustered mass shadows. A key part of traditional hyperspace routes is that while hyperdrive failures don't happen all that often barring combat damage, if a hyperdrive breaks down between systems the odds of somebody finding and rescuing you are virtually nil. So routes tend to be planned so that ships skim the outside of systems between the start and end points of their destinations, far enough out that the mass shadow of the system won't stop them if they want to keep going, but close enough in that they can stop in a system rather than the middle of nowhere if they do have trouble.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_e68decb8	comment	The first Star Control in strategy mode has colonies as nodes in a jump graph — and you can's know for sure whether and where each node is connected until you visit it.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_e7afca1f	comment	Infinite Space - Space travel is restricted to "starlanes", which are apparently a naturally occurring phenomenon.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_e8bca4f	type	Hyperspace Lanes
Hyperspace Lanes / int_e8bca4f	comment	Eldraeverse: Stargates are built in quantum-entangled pairs, meaning that each gate only ever connects to one other gate and it can take months of crossing different star systems to reach a given destination.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_ef076a36	type	Hyperspace Lanes
Hyperspace Lanes / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager also encountered a network of underspace corridors built by the Vaadwaur and maintained by the Turei. As Voyager is a long way from home, they're naturally interested in using them, and as per usual hostile aliens would prefer that they don't.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_f189f12e	type	Hyperspace Lanes
Hyperspace Lanes / int_f189f12e	comment	Vega Strike has jump points network. Another form of FTL travel is limited to in-system use as relatively slow.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_f74b5f80	type	Hyperspace Lanes
Hyperspace Lanes / int_f74b5f80	comment	In Babylon 5, most ships traveling in Hyperspace make sure to closely follow the navigational beacons transmitted between the Jump Gates. They could go in any direction they want, and try to take shortcuts, but then they run the very real risk of joining the ranks of ships that have gone off the beacon never to be seen or heard from again. Larger ships, which can create their own jump points, have more sophisticated navigational equipment which allow them to travel more freely. Even the larger ships will find themselves in trouble if they lose their navigation systems or engines in combat in hyperspace, drifting helplessly into the void. For this reason, most commanders, if given any real choice, will avoid fighting battles in hyperspace, instead preferring to mass their forces near strategic key points such as jump gates or planets.
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Hyperspace Lanes / int_fcf0b6c3	type	Hyperspace Lanes
Hyperspace Lanes / int_fcf0b6c3	comment	Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers took their cue from Star Wars on this one. Humans were still quite new to hyperspace travel, and there were a lot of things that could go seriously wrong (and did in-series) if your calculations were off or your drive was malfunctioning.
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