Wormhole network
Names: Wormhole networkwormhole gatesgatewormhole transit system
First appears in Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost, chapter 12 (Chapter Twelve: Tech Sleuthing)
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What you know
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 12Wormhole satellites answer a specific unnatural radio frequency with a network packet containing source and destination addresses.
- Ch 12The builders used a ten-bit byte and five-byte word, and gate addresses encode galactic coordinates.
- Ch 12Some gates are long-distance jumps, suggesting the network might allow circumnavigating the galaxy.
- Ch 14They have mapped over thirty-two hundred systems but found no living inhabitants, traffic or radio challenges.
- Ch 14The network spans about 120 degrees, a third of the galaxy, and does not extend into Earth's region.
- Ch 24The network links civilizations of dozens of species, some well maintained, some decaying or collapsed.
- Ch 24Every system on the network is Sol-like with habitable or inhabited planets, which Icarus attributes to deliberate selection.
Connections
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