{"id":698,"date":"2025-11-01T18:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=698"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:27:35","slug":"phaseways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Phaseways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phaseways are a trope I toyed with some years ago, inspired partly by the alien transporter tech in Assignment: Earth and partly by The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys<\/a> by Mick Farren.<\/p>\n

Essentially, they began in my imagination as an immense web of “warp conduits”, but for individuals, not ships.\u00a0 \u00a0The phaseways are Forerunner tech, so the current inhabitants of the galaxy use them, but don’t really understand them.\u00a0 With the proper tech or psionic ability, a person can “phase” from one destination to another, as easily as stepping through a door.\u00a0 (Which means the concept is also based on The Lion Game<\/a> by James H. Schmitz.)<\/p>\n\n\n

I intended it to be extravagant and unlikely, merely a gimmick that briefly infatuated me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Dirge-iverse, I’m recasting the phaseways as the very aforementioned network of warp conduits, used by Affiliation ships to traverse the galaxy. I’m merging this with the concept of “forking” – the phaseways can be seen as an immense highway network, with “on- and off-ramps” forking off of larger, regional arteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m forking off to Alpha Cent tomorrow…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even for the most advance Affiliation vessels, navigating the phaseways is a bit like riding a flatboat down a frontier river in the 1700s. There are obstacles and dangers that we are barely aware of and have little hope of understanding. Any Forerunner tech that makes forking safer and faster is highly sought by pretty much everyone – governments, cults, corporations, mad scientists and, of course, adventurers at large. (See what I did there?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phaseways are a trope I toyed with some years ago, inspired partly by the alien transporter tech in Assignment: Earth and partly by The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys by Mick Farren. Essentially, they began in my imagination as an immense web of “warp conduits”, but for individuals, not ships.\u00a0 \u00a0The phaseways are Forerunner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}