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== Description / Specifications ==
 
== Description / Specifications ==
Heliopause
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The Heliopause is very important to light sail ships since it represents a border beyond which many lower technology solar sailing ships cannot exceed. In some ways, poets liken Heliopause to the edge of the world for solar sailing ships.
  
 
== History & Background / Dossier ==
 
== History & Background / Dossier ==

Revision as of 14:38, 22 November 2017

Heliopause is the theoretical boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium.

Description / Specifications

The Heliopause is very important to light sail ships since it represents a border beyond which many lower technology solar sailing ships cannot exceed. In some ways, poets liken Heliopause to the edge of the world for solar sailing ships.

History & Background / Dossier

Heliopause represents the symbolic border of an astrographic hex as designated by the IISS.

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