Local-Space

Any travel that takes place between high atmosphere and a blink gate is local-space travel.

Ships of all sizes and classifications move through this zone, following shuttle routes between worlds, making supply runs out to local Colonies and settlements, and engaging in every other form of transit and business.   Some spaceships are designed to operate within planetary gravity wells and are able to handle both atmospheric flight and movement in a hard vacuum. These ships tend to have a low gross weight – fighters, bombers, and some smaller corvettes fit into this category of atmosphere-rated ships (although corvettes usually need some form of assisted takeoff to break atmosphere and orbit). Capital ships can’t handle atmospheric flight, though should one find itself falling, it could burn hard for lateral movement as it plummets to a catastrophic end.

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