Hyperspace
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Hyperspace, also known as Hyades-Space, H-Space, Hyper-Space or the Fifth Universe (by the Council of Frogs) (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"]), was a dimension distinct from normal space, where one could travel faster-than-light and avoid the time distortion effect stated in Einstein's theory of relativity. Many species throughout the history of N-Space made use of hyperspace as a means of faster-than-light travel. Hyperspace allowed ships to travel great distances while in another type of space which allowed for an alternative to faster than light drives. The ships would disappear from normal space, enter hyperspace and return. (TV: Nightmare of Eden [+]Loading...["Nightmare of Eden (TV story)"])
By one account, hyperspace was the primary dimension of travel for the Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: Frontier in Space [+]Loading...["Frontier in Space (TV story)"])
Nature[[edit] | [edit source]]
Hyperspace was said to be a subset of the Time Vortex, (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus [+]Loading...["The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)"]) and one account referred to the "vortex" of hyperspace. (PROSE: State of Change [+]Loading...["State of Change (novel)"]) Despite this, the Fourth Doctor and Romana I dismissed hyperspace as a theoretical absurdity that was barely touched upon on Gallifrey. (TV: The Stones of Blood [+]Loading...["The Stones of Blood (TV story)"])
Methods of accessing hyperspace included icaron particles (PROSE: Original Sin [+]Loading...["Original Sin (novel)"]) and the Nimons' method of using black hole-based transmats, channelling an energy beam through the opening for motive power for their transmat capsules. The Nimons referred to this as the "Great Journey of Life". (TV: The Horns of Nimon [+]Loading...["The Horns of Nimon (TV story)"])
However, a record of Olivia Kagg Waldermein, as well as establishing Hyperspace as the home universe of the Hyperspace Tyrants, indicated that it was wildy held that Hyperspace constituted a separate universe from that of the Lesser Time Elementals and that it was alternatively known as Hyades-Space, or the Fifth Universe by the Council of Frogs. The Lesser Time Elementals were known to disagree with this designation, insisting that Hyperspace was "part of the Third Universe". (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"]) During the Seventeen Years Invasion, a group of humans and aliens additionally refered to the home dimension of the Hyperspace Tyrants as Hyades-Space, specifically 'sCarcosa. (PROSE: Revelry of the Redacted [+]Loading...["Revelry of the Redacted (short story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Hyperspace permitted communication over great distances. Through use of an ionic vibrator, Prentice, her mind in shock from a fall, was able to hear the voice of Zex, even though he was five hundred light-years away. The Master used the same device to send his thoughts into hyperspace and contact Zex. (PROSE: Listen - The Stars [+]Loading...["Listen - The Stars (short story)"]) In the 100th century, androids communicated through webwork transmissions via hyperspace. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus [+]Loading...["The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)"])
Shortly before the Cosmic War and after the great planetary bifurcation had began, a group of Hyperspace Tyrants - the Dark Lord or Emperor, the Black Knight and the Red Vizier - visited the Third Homeworld. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
Travel[[edit] | [edit source]]
Vessels used a form of warp drive to travel into this dimension, (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden (novelisation)"]) known as a hyperdrive. (TV: The Two Doctors [+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"], The Time of Angels [+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"], Survivors of the Flux [+]Loading...["Survivors of the Flux (TV story)"])
Both the Grold and the Semquess had ships which could travel in hyperspace. (PROSE: The Eye of the Giant [+]Loading...["The Eye of the Giant (novel)"])
By the 25th century, humans had the ability to travel in hyperspace and such journeys had become commonplace and commercial. (PROSE: Judgement of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Judgement of the Judoon (novel)"])
In 2540, the Third Doctor materialised in front of Cargo ship C982, forcing it to pull out of hyperspace. (TV: Frontier in Space [+]Loading...["Frontier in Space (TV story)"])
A space-faring version of the Orient Express travelled through space along hyperspace ribbons. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express [+]Loading...["Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)"])
By 2815, a section of hyperspace was being used as a short-cut for various ships. The Cerberus ship caused a huge traffic jam when it attempted to escape the hyperspace tunnel as it was closing. The ship was eventually found by the authorities, but it was deserted, leading to it being called the "Mystery of the Cerberus". By 3012, it, along with the prison ship the Montressor which had crashed into it, became a space station called the G-Lock, where the Festival of Death took place. (PROSE: Festival of Death [+]Loading...["Festival of Death (novel)"])
When travelling from 1138 Essex to Skaro, Colony Sarff travelled with their prisoners the Twelfth Doctor, Missy and Clara Oswald in their spaceship via hyperspace. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"])
The battle between Qataka's spacecraft and Utnapishtim's space ark was one of manoeuvres into and out of hyperspace. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"])
Poseidon was tethered to a hyperspace corridor, one that both prevented it from falling into the gravity well of Hades' Helix and allowed them to beam their collected energy to Ultima Tarsus. When the station collapsed, the Tenth Doctor evacuated the crew via the hyperspace corridor. (COMIC: The Lost Dimension [+]Loading...["The Lost Dimension (comic story)"])
During the Last Great Time War, Mo and Rondig attempted to escape the Daleks via a hyperspace jump only for the Daleks to strike their craft as their drive activated, forcing them back into realspace. (AUDIO: Saviour [+]Loading...["Saviour (audio story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The first words of COMIC: Genesis of Evil [+]Loading...["Genesis of Evil (comic story)"] say that Skaro is located "deep in hyperspace". As with similar language around "universes" in other 1960s sources, this line was not written to indicate that Skaro was located in another dimension per a modern reader's sense of the word. Instead, this use of "Hyperspace" has a meaning similar to deep space.
