Instant Transport
a.k.a.
- near-instant(aneous) transport
Definition
The Editor's terms for various intentional,
technological-based means of transporting
a person or object over some distance,
instantaneously or within seconds.
Does not include space warps, black suns,
or other arguably natural phenomenon.
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Examples
- "Guardian of Piri": the Servant is transported about.
The Guardian (or some aspect of it) also appears and disappears,
but it is not clear if this is (de)cloaking or transport.
- "War Games"?
- "The Last Enemy": Dione transports herself
from quarters on Alpha to her small escape ship
in an Eagle hangar.
- The Exiles set up a transference system from Alpha to Golos.
(named technology?)
- "Journey to Where":
Earth has developed one such system by
2120,
and attempts to use it to rescue the Alphans to Earth.
It goes awry and lands three of them on Earth of
1339.
- "The Taybor":
Taybor uses it repeatedly,
to variously transport himself,
John, and/or
Maya to and from his ship,
as well as to transport various gifts
and trade items between his ship and Alpha.
- "The Rules of Luton": the
Judges of Luton
endow this ability on one of the three aliens which
John and
Maya are facing in combat to the death.
- NANE:
Magus
displays and uses this ability on numerous occasions,
on himself and other objects,
including transporting
Eagle 4 from the
Moon to
New Earth.
- "Devil's Planet": a Transbeamer can transport
individual people between Ellna and Entra.