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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 3755907" data-attributes="member: 2012">A closer look at Plane of the Unseen Infinity...What follows is how I interpret "space" for the Mirrored Cosmology. This information has been up on Beyond the Moons for some time now, but I'm incluidng it here for completeness.THE PLANE OF THE UNSEEN INFINITYAn Introduction to FarspaceRiley Hanolder couldn’t believe his luck.  As a xenoform expert in Baron’s Stone, a small asteroid city in Allorspace, his chance to study other races and cultures were limited.  It was hard to study something that didn’t live where you grew up.But now, now all that would change.  The alien spelljammer, the Alathon, had landed on Baron’s Stone two nights ago and had instantly caused a stir amongst Riley’s friends and neighbors.  Of course, they had originally thought that the aliens, a purple-skinned humanoid race called the raia, were invading Baron’s Stone.  Only when the captain of the Alathon stepped out onto the space-rock did the town realize these aliens weren’t out to conquer them.The captain held out fine silk, unlike anything Riley had ever seen before, as a gift.  He told the people of Baron’s Stone that his people were traders from a distant part of known space and would gladly sell the town anything it wanted from his ship’s stores at a discount as long as the crew could use some local supplies to repair the Alathon.  Damson Wonersson, the local mayor, gladly accepted the raia captain’s gift and stated that Baron’s Stone would be happy to help.Riley had been amazed by the raia from the first moment he met them.  Their spelljammer was unlike anything he’d ever seen before.  Obviously a special design put together by them, the Alathon was extremely sturdy and made out of something the raia called durawood – wood that is a strong as steel.And now, here Riley was.  On the Alathon heading towards the edge of Allorspace and its crystal shell.  He had known instantly that the raia were his chance at begin his xenoform study and get off Baron’s Stone.  Riley stood on the bow of the Alathon looking towards the edge of his home sphere, hoping to get a glimpse of its crystal shell for the first time.Then he saw it.  It looked plainer than he thought it would.  The great shell was pitch black and featureless.  He had known it would be, of course.  Every spacer living in Allorspace was taught that from infancy.  It’s just that he had hoped his parents had been wrong.  Riley sighed looking over his shoulder towards where Allorspace’s asteroid field would be if he could see it anymore.  He hadn’t even left the sphere yet and he was homesick.Riley turned back towards the shell just as the captain stepped up next to him.  The shell was now looming over the raia spelljammer, yet the ship had yet to slow down.  Riley looked at the captain with some concern.“Uh captain,” Riley didn’t want to appear rude so he did his best to be diplomatic.  “You are planning to enter the flow, correct?”“You are correct, Master Riley.”  The captain was one for formality on his ship.  “But not quite yet.  We haven’t passed beyond the boundary of the sphere yet.  There is no rush.”“B-but captain,” Riley swallowed hard.  “The shell.  We’re going to hit it.”“Ah, yes,” the captain smiled at Riley warmly.  It was meant to reassure the boy that everything would be fine.  “Something I forgot to mention about my people.  We are not from your space.”“I don’t understand.”  Riley was confused. “You already told me you were not from Allorspace.”“Ah, but you see, I meant your conception of Arcane Space.”“W-what?”“My people are from a place beyond what you perceive as the crystal shell.  In reality, there isn’t a shell there.  You just think there is.”“Y-your not s-serious.”  Riley was ready to throw himself overboard.  “The only thing beyond the shells is the phlogiston.”“That is what you believe, Master Riley.  It is not what the raia believe.”Riley watched in horror, as the shell loomed closer and closer to the Alathon.  They were going to hit.  Riley was going to die.  The sage of Baron’s Stone screamed in terror as the ship sped up.  The crew stood there motionless as the ship raced on.  Then the captain spoke.“Believe, Master Riley.  There is no shell.”  His tone was deep and powerful.“There is no shell.”  The crew spoke as one voice, their eyes closed in meditation.Riley closed his eyes and held his breath.  He spoke the words over and over in his mind.  There is no shell. I’m going to die.  There is no shell. I’m going to die.  Riley opened his eyes.“Oh… my… god!”The Alathon contacted the shell and passed through it like it wasn’t there.  The ship had passed right through the shell without a portal or anything.  Riley felt faint.He looked back to see that there wasn’t any sign of the shell, just the star of Allorspace in the black of space.  But it was what stretched out all around him, which unsettled his stomach.  Billions of stars as far as the eye could see.  Riley was used to seeing stars but not like this.  It was so surreal. Riley steadied himself on the rail of the bow, trying not to vomit.“I-it’s not possible.  W-where is the flow?  Captain, what is this place?”“Master Riley… welcome to farspace.”</blockquote>

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