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When I look at the main Hyperspace page as it is right now, its clear that every single story there is talking about the same thing: another plane associated with fast travel over long distances. Hyperspace in the sources on this page, meanwhile, has none of those associations.
PROSE: Doctor Who and the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)"], COMIC: The Batmen [+]Loading...["The Batmen (comic story)"], and PROSE: Stingray Attacked! [+]Loading...["Stingray Attacked! (short story)"] demonstrably use the term synonymously with distant space. This Hyperspace is a place in spatial continuity with planet Earth and is a region travelled through which does not impact space travel speed, and therefore is not like what we call "Hyperspace". (Looking into the Fireball XL5 side of things, I'm unsure if the term "Hyperspace" is used at any point in the television series, but I did find that the episode Prisoner on the Lost Planet also shows Fireball XL5 journeying to the region of deep space beyond Sector 25, which it calls "uncharted space".)
The contentious line is thus the famous "Deep in Hyperspace is the Planet Skaro. This world is the most feared globe in all the Universe." I believe that we should Occam's Razor this to mean the deep space sense of Hyperspace by the fact that: 1. this text is accompanied by an illustration of Skaro in regular 'ol space, 2. the use of the word "deep" once more implies a spatial continuity with other parts of the universe, 3. Genesis of Evil [+]Loading...["Genesis of Evil (comic story)"] was published in TV Century 21 at the same time as The Batmen by the same creative team and is set in the same universe, and 4. most of the details of Genesis are taken from The Dalek Book and in The Dalek Book Skaro is said to be from the "dark unexplored regions of outer space".
Even if a later source with the Daleks has referenced them as living in an Asimovian Hyperspace (which I don't think has yet happened), I believe that we should record the original stories as meaning Hyperspace in this sense. TheChampionOfTime ☎ 17:06, 10 December 2024 (UTC)