Soulspace

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Discovery
'''Originally theorized by Dr. Asokka Empor, ‘soulspace’ was proven a reality by his protégé Dr. Neun Manner. In a nutshell, he proved that all of reality is 'held aloft' by a barely detectable, elemental framework. In ancient times people would have called this 'the ether'. He further proved that given the opportunity a powerful mind would be able to jump into this framework and reappear anywhere.'''

The Penumbric Steps
After years of experimentation, humanity agreed to measure the entire galaxy with an imaginary three-dimensional grid, and the distance between two points on the grid as a series of 'steps'. In the year 20,000 sidestepping ships are very common and used daily to transport goods, information and people all over the Milky Way.

The ships are powered by extremely intelligent artificial minds, often nicknamed 'godtanks'. Oddly, the ship requires no additional fuel to sidestep, as the main requirement of travel is actually concentration. The godtanks must be self-aware, yet without a sense of personality. They are designed to concentrate fully on the task of entering soulspace and rewriting their own existence elsewhere in normal-space.