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'''Zero Time''' was an alternative form of time developed by [[the enemy]] of the [[Great Houses]], in order to avoid the attentions of [[weapon]]s like [[Gravity Spider|gravity spider]]s.
'''Zero Time''' was an alternative form of time developed by [[the Enemy]], in order to avoid the detection of the [[Great House]]s.


By moving into a newly-created stretch of zero time before moving back into real time, [[enemy timeship]]s expelled the debris and detritus of centuries which would otherwise be introduced to the local continuum and leave tell-tale trails of the ship's arrival — the gravity spiders were primed to locate such tiny traces and to destroy any timeships they found in the vicinity. It wasn't realised until later, by the powers adopting such technologies, that it was precisely this unloading of the past into easily-breached pockets of space-time that the gravity spiders had been designed to provoke. The bubbles of zero time could then be harvested by the Houses in the wake of enemy movements and analysed in order to reveal not just the technical specifications of the timeships, but also their recent history.
The Enemy discovered that by moving their [[timeship]]s first into zero time and then back into real time they would avoid dragging along bits and bobs of prior time periods, meaning that the [[Gravity Spider|Gravity Spider]]s looking for these discontinuities would come up empty.


Furthermore, the occasional bursting of zero time offered a way of pinpointing timeship activity in itself. It was one of the few weapons-technology coups to have been pulled off by the Houses during the War in its first fifty years. Needless to say, the introduction of zero time to the War made proceedings far more complicated by its very nature; the various War-time factions had different "flavours" of time available, and battlefield scenarios had to be planned to take into account the different kinds of battlefield. Zero time was even used as a medium for accessing the otherwise inaccessible world of [[Utterlost]], although eventually even the zero time routes were cut off. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
However, the residual traces of zero time would later be analysed by the Houses to determine the technical specifications of Enemy time ships, as well as their recent histories, in one of the first real technology successes of the Houses in the first 50 years of [[War in Heaven|The War]].
 
Zero time was also used in an attempt to access [[Utterlost]], though these pathways were cutoff as well, eventually. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')


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Latest revision as of 05:50, 30 January 2023

Zero Time was an alternative form of time developed by the Enemy, in order to avoid the detection of the Great Houses.

The Enemy discovered that by moving their timeships first into zero time and then back into real time they would avoid dragging along bits and bobs of prior time periods, meaning that the Gravity Spiders looking for these discontinuities would come up empty.

However, the residual traces of zero time would later be analysed by the Houses to determine the technical specifications of Enemy time ships, as well as their recent histories, in one of the first real technology successes of the Houses in the first 50 years of The War.

Zero time was also used in an attempt to access Utterlost, though these pathways were cutoff as well, eventually. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

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