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Basic Concepts

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	* <u>Minor Point:</u> Any other Jump Point in a given starzone. Most are located in the mass shadows of large or heavy planets, and are more difficult to calculate jumps off of than the Primary.		* <u>Minor Point:</u> Any other Jump Point in a given starzone. Most are located in the mass shadows of large or heavy planets, and are more difficult to calculate jumps off of than the Primary.
	* <u>Darkspace Point:</u> Rare Jump Points located in the Oort Cloud of a starzone, which only permit travel to other Darkspace Points, often leading the would-be explorer down chains of uncharted systems.		* <u>Darkspace Point:</u> Rare Jump Points located in the Oort Cloud of a starzone, which only permit travel to other Darkspace Points, often leading the would-be explorer down chains of uncharted systems.
	* <u>Spooling Up:</u> Performing Byron-Hughes Field calculations to successfully perform an FTL transit.		* <u>Spooling Up:</u> (Colloquial) Performing Byron-Hughes Field calculations to successfully perform an FTL transit.
	* <u>Blue System:</u> Charted starzones, with well understood Jump Points and few surprises. Spooling up travel to and from a Blue System takes half as long, one quarter if the jump is between two Blue Systems.		* <u>Blue System:</u> Charted starzones, with well understood Jump Points and few surprises. Spooling up travel to and from a Blue System takes half as long, one quarter if the jump is between two Blue Systems.
	* <u>Yellow System:</u> Typical Verge starzones, subject to typical travel times.		* <u>Yellow System:</u> Typical Verge starzones, subject to typical travel times.

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= Basic Concepts =
Glossary
* Jump Point: The Byron-Hughes Field Point, the area of space in a system where FTL travel is possible.
* Primary Point: The Jump Point that emerges naturally in the mass shadow of large Jovian gas giants; in Lagrangian terms, the L2 point of the starzones's largest gas giant.
* Minor Point: Any other Jump Point in a given starzone. Most are located in the mass shadows of large or heavy planets, and are more difficult to calculate jumps off of than the Primary.
* Darkspace Point: Rare Jump Points located in the Oort Cloud of a starzone, which only permit travel to other Darkspace Points, often leading the would-be explorer down chains of uncharted systems.
* Spooling Up: Performing Byron-Hughes Field calculations to successfully perform an FTL transit.
* Blue System: Charted starzones, with well understood Jump Points and few surprises. Spooling up travel to and from a Blue System takes half as long, one quarter if the jump is between two Blue Systems.
* Yellow System: Typical Verge starzones, subject to typical travel times.
* Red System: Frontier systems that are mostly uncharted. Safely conducting a Jump to or from a Red System takes twice as long, four times for travel between two Red Systems.
* Circular: Interstellar trade routes serviced by enormous jumpships that run continuous circuits through the Inner Systems and Verge, hence the name. They are traditionally named after animals and mythological creatures, i.e.: Horse, Deer, Rabbit, Rooster, etc. Multiple ships can run the same circular.
* Junction: Systems where Circulars are known to converge, named after mythological hybrids of the connected routes. i.e.: Gryphon Junction connects the Lion and Eagle Circulars, Manticore connects the Man, Scorpion and Lion Circulars, etc.

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