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 Spherical holes in spacetime that allow an object to enter at one point and emerge at another, taking a shortcut through upper dimensional space. While some are natural in origin, others are artificial in nature.
-=== Mass Lock===
+=== Form Lock ===
-A situation in which the gravitational mass interactions with an object in higher spaces link it to the relative position of another object. This essentially means if one object is lifted, the other moves with it as if a single component even if there is no obvious physical linkage. The most common example are wormholes but many objects are engineered to have masslock by design.
+A situation in which the gravitational mass interactions with an object in higher spaces link it to the relative position of another object. This essentially means if one object is lifted, the other moves with it as if a single component even if there is no obvious physical linkage. The most common example are wormholes but many objects are engineered to have Form-Lock by design.
+=== Mass-Lock ===
+Mass-lock is involved when an FTL drive is near an object of high mass and its capacity for output is severely reduced as the heavy object provides intense "friction". This stops objects from being thrown at planets at luminal velocity.
+=== Death Spiral ===
+A common combat phenomenon, a death spiral happens when two craft with gravity manipulation try to grapple or connect to one another to pull the other in. As a result, the two orbit a middle spot in a tight double helix, exchanging vollies of weapons-fire -- drawing closer to strike in close combat or drawing back and eventually achieving escape velocity from the spiral itself.
+While at range the technique makes little sense conventionally, the force involved to tractor an opponent disrupts light enough to make accurate striking an opponent at range particularly difficult similar to how water refracts the true position of objects: the gap must be closed to remove the constantly moving refraction.
 ===== Location phenomena =====
 These phenomenon while possible anywhere, crop up at massive and specific destinations, making them helpful in navigating simply on sight.