In order to use wormholes for travel, players must research Applied Casimir Effect Technology. At the beginning of the game, players cannot travel between systems using wormholes. However, while a cosmic string looks like a straight line connecting two systems, a wormhole looks like a wavy or blurred line. Like cosmic strings, wormholes link two star systems together. Wormholes are different from normal cosmic strings. Ships can not reverse direction once travel along a cosmic string has commenced, they must continue to the opposite system.Ĭrossing a Star System appears to use some of the fleet's movement allowance. Research can increase the of a ship traversing a cosmic string. Move Points are carried over when you reach the end of a cosmic string, so if you still have a further destination to reach you can start travelling on a new cosmic string in the same turn.
Longer cosmic strings will take longer to travel along, sometimes taking multiple turns for a single cosmic string. Each cosmic string takes a certain amount of Move Points to travel, based on the length of the cosmic string. This is used to determine how far along a Cosmic String a ship moves.Ĭosmic Strings are the simple connections between Systems that define where a ship on that given Planet can move to next.