Hyperspace

Hyperspace engineering is a technology which allows rapid transportation between two or more locations. It relies on the presence of a parallel dimension, which can be accessed and through which speeds become faster than in reality. It revolutionized global transportation, and promises to make the colonization of space much easier as well.

Utility

This technology greatly increases the speed at which transportation between locations is possible.

Inventor(s)

Nia Qwarzen: physicist who developed the theory of hyperspace.
Shari Tun-nasai: Engineer who created the first hyperdrive engine.

Access & Availability

Most skyships have some form of hyperspace engine, and recent breakthroughs in manufacturing techniques and computing power have made them cheaper than before. That said, a safe hyperspace engine will cost at minimum 10,000 Corgs, and a decent one can run into the hundreds of thousands.

Complexity

To navigate hyperspace, a computer must first perform two sets of calculations- one based in reality and the other in hyperspace. These calculations determine potential spaces where there are no dangerous physical landmarks or energy anomalies. After these, the computer will chart the quickest route, and when the engine is activated, will fly through hyperspace to greatly reduce the time needed to travel between two locations.

Discovery

The possibility of a parallel dimension was first proposed by the Valurnian physicist Christian Heim in 1823. Heim's apprentice, the Ecleinian physicist Nia Qwarzen, was the first person to provide evidence to back this theory. Her calculations laid the baseline for the groundbreaking work Hypernavigation: The Parallel Dimension, which laid out the physics of hyperspace travel in 1838. Various engineers threw themselves at the issue; however, it would be the Penai engineer Shari Tun-nasai and their team of engineers at Pineglenn Yards who successfully sent two people- the pilot Carol Ylass and the physicist Bernard Shepard- from Therinsburg to Caworn in the span of 14 hours in 1853. This marked the beginning of various innovations in the field of hyperspace engineering.