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[[File:Tachyonic sailing ship of the Fish.png|thumb|right|325px|The tachyonic sailing ship of the [[Faction of the Fooling Fish]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rifts Crisis Officially Over! (short story)|Rifts Crisis Officially Over!]]'') the ''[[Fish'n'Ship]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') materialising in the [[Cupid Homeworld]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rifts Crisis Officially Over! (short story)|Rifts Crisis Officially Over!]]'')]]'''Tachyonic sailing ships''' were a type of [[The Void|Void]]-sailing ship, resembling large 18th-century sailing ships. 

== Nature ==
According to [[CS-NA]]'s internal encyclopedia, tachyonic ships function by “capturing the natural flow of faster-than-light [[tachyon]] particles (created as a byproduct of the linear passage of time)” with their tachyonic sails. This allowed them to sail onto a “poorly-understood ‘layer’ of time” known as the [[Chronon Sea]], where they can be manually sailed onto the timestreams of individual parallel universes. 

The [[Consistency Imperium]]'s tachyonic sailing ships were remarkably sturdy, able to flip over several times on solid ground without breaking. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')

== History ==
Due to a time paradox, tachyonic sailing ships always existed throughout the [[hypercontinuum]], but had also always been considered an obsolete form of interdimensional travel. However, their aesthetics, and other concerns, meant they remained in use by a few, such as eccentrics drawn to the swashbuckling life and the [[Consistency Imperium]]. [[CS-NA]], a ship-repairing robot created in the Imperium, never had the chance to fix a tachyonic sailing ship, but was programmed to be able to do so should the occasion arise. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')

On the day of the Imperium's fall, the [[Faction of the Fooling Fish]] made off with one of their sailing ship, with which they also brought [[Marksmanship-522]], [[Tracker-764]], [[Bibliophile-962]] and [[Pythagoras-858]] back to the [[Cupid Homeworld]]. It was photographed by [[Nadar-124]] materialising in the Homeworld, with the picture ending up on the front page of ''[[The Cupid Courier]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rifts Crisis Officially Over! (short story)|Rifts Crisis Officially Over!]]'')

The Faction would later use their newly-acquired multiversal sailing ship to play all kinds of practical jokes on residents of [[the Void]] and other dimensions, including [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Multiversal Mischief (short story)|Multiversal Mischief]]'') They eventually named their ship the ''[[Fish'n'Ship]]''. In Decemeber 2021, [[CS-NA]] landed aboard the Ship by chance while using his [[Dematerialisation Engine]] with random coordinates. The Faction convinced him to help them steer their ship past a treacherous dimensional barrier and into a heavily-warded pocket universe which they named [[Dimension Zeta-32-Orangepeel-Grbbrzkwlkglb]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')
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