I was pondering the X-Boat route from Tenalphi to Strouden in the Spinward Marches - which, as everyone knows, is 5-parsecs long despite X-Boats being J4 - and settled on an explanation IMTU.
Spinward Marches 2127 doesn't exist.
Jump Space goes non-Cartesian for that parsec. You can't jump to that hex. Jump distances measured across that hex are one parsec shorter than they would appear to be. It's like... oh, I don't know... someone cut out that hex and stretched the map around it in to fill in the gap.
Now... who could do a think like that? And why would they want to erase an entire hex in the Spinward Marches?
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2 comments:
Isn't is easier to just assume that route is a typo that's survived EVERY edition?
I like that idea. :-)
It could be an ancient jump space nullifier, that still is active.
What will happen when the PCs find it and does what PCs always do... (E.g. pressing buttons on a device they don't understand.)
I.M.T.U. it is just an experimental route.
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