Behind The Scenes

20 Mar

So what is a slingshot?

A slingshot is the act of using a Congruency Hole to travel from one system to another.

The twist to a using a slingshot (congruency hole is the technical term and slingshot is the popular usage) is that unlike a jump point, it can take you to two fixed destinations instead of just one.

Each slingshot has two directions, upspin and downspin. By approaching it via the upspin side (whatever that means, I’ll have to flesh it out), your journey will go to system A. If you use the downspin side, your journey will be to system B.

Furthermore, if at system A you then take the downspin cycle, you will end up back at your original destination.

So every time you find a slingshot, you know you have two new systems to explore.

How many slingshots per system?

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