Talk:Probability Moon

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Description of tunnel behaviour[edit]

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Humanity's understanding of the space tunnels is very limited, but several peculiar traits have been discovered. For one: if Ship A enters Tunnel 1, exits Tunnel 2 and then turns around and enters Tunnel 2 again, it will emerge from Tunnel 1 again... Unless Ship B emerges from Tunnel 2 in the interim, at which point Ship A will instead emerge from wherever Ship B entered.

I've only read the story once but that description seems incomplete and possibly incorrect.

Specifically if the description above were accurate then the flyer Hermes would be sent to a Faller controlled world as a Skeeter had popped in via Space Tunnel #438, done a reconnaissance tour, and then left. That would configure the tunnel to take the next ship, the Hermes in this case, to wherever the Skeeter had come from.

My understanding of the tunnels are:

If a ship has never used a particular tunnel entrypoint before then it will end up at the same destination as that for the most recent ship to enter that tunnel. (ref: page 36 in chapter 4 and page 200 in chapter 18 - the page numbers are for the Tor paperback)
If a ship exits from tunnel #1 and later reenters the tunnel #1 it will get sent back out the tunnel that had sent it to tunnel #1. (ref: page 37 in chapter 4)
It is unknown as to how long a particular entrypoint will "remember" a specific ship and to which destination it should be tunneled to. It's speculated that the memory may be a Millennia or more. (ref: page 255 in chapter 25)
Most solar systems three or four tunnels clustered together (ref: page 36 in chapter 4)
Two or more tunnels can end up being connected to a single Entrypoint. For example Space Tunnel #438 is being used by both humans and Fallers. When human ships enter this tunnel they end up in the human controlled Caligula system. Faller ships are also using this tunnel and must be getting returned to a Faller controlled system (or systems) as they are not routing themselves through Caligula.
It's not explained what happens when a ship enters a virgin tunnel.
While most of the references to the tunnels in Probability Moon are worded as "Space Tunnel #438" the author uses "Entrypoint #438" at least once (ref: page 199 or chapter 18). --Marc Kupper|talk 05:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback from New Page Review process[edit]

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Unfortunately, the plot summary and setting sections are still far too long at 2000 words; however, IMHO notability is met with the four reviews, so thanks for the article!.

VickKiang (talk) 07:20, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]