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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