[quote=@Isotope]
[@Flagg]'s idea is cool too!  Though there'd have to be some reason why everyone doesn't just use sorcerers if they aren't burdened by the limits of hyperlanes. 
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True. I like the idea of relatively defined hyperlanes because you can come up with awesome names and lore for the different pathways through the stars and different quirks to each one that opens interesting story telling possibilities- the chance of 'hyperstorms' along one road, or one road that peters out and starts up again some distance away, forcing a slog through realspace. The suggestion about the Void was that it'd be cool if some small, special number of ships could then bypass this system, even at great risk. But it would need to be fairly rare.