Farcasters

Item from Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Instant travel portals given to humanity by the TechnoCore — step through a door and arrive anywhere in the galaxy, while the AIs use the transit to eat your brain without you noticing.

Also known as: Farcasters, Farcaster Portals

What They Know

• Instant travel portals creating the WorldWeb — paired singularity globes in orbit
• Transit routes through Planck Space — TechnoCore accesses neural patterns during transit
• Billions of daily transits provided computational substrate for the TechnoCore
• Gladstone destroyed every farcaster simultaneously — ended the WorldWeb, killed millions
• Given to humanity by the TechnoCore — no human understands the mechanism
• Freecasting (Aenea's method) achieves the same travel without TechnoCore parasitism

Connections

• created_by — technocore_entity
• destroyed_by — gladstone
• connects — worldweb_loc

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