| Welcome to the guide to the space trading and combat game Flatspace. |
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| Welcome to the guide to the space trading and combat game Flatspace. |
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The Flatspace galaxy is a grid, and each square is called a sector. Standard numbered co-ordinates are used to indicate the locations of sectors in the grid and these often appear in square brackets. A sector can contain many things, but in the starless Flatspace universe the most important things are space stations. Space stations are islands of warmth and life in an otherwise dead and lonely void. There are many types of space stations from large industrial bases to cosy trading posts. Police stations try keep order within a galaxy where crime is often high. Small independent bases can often be the home of illegal activity. Sectors are isolated bubbles of space and life in each galaxy. Ships cannot fly from one sector to another directly but instead use a device called a hyperdrive to jump instantly from one sector to another. Hyperdrives are sophisticated pieces of equipment that use (among other things) division by zero to exit the universe, fly along a tunnel of fractional dimensions and then re-enter space at any specified point. |
