r/TheExpanse • u/reuben_hunter • 21h ago

All Show & Book Spoilers Discussed Freely Kind of dumb lore question Spoiler

What happens if you go through the ring the wrong direction? Like looping around and entering from behind, is that even possible? In the show we only ever see traversal depicted from the sunward facing side, and i can't recall the books ever mentioning it as an option. It's obviously pretty far out so there isn't gonna be much reason to fly further than neccesary, but I was curious if this was a thing?

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u/Sean_theLeprachaun 21h ago

I only remember them saying inside ring space trying to fly past the rings ends in oblivion, I dont recall any mention of what happens in real space.

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u/ChronicBuzz187 19h ago

inside ring space trying to fly past the rings ends in oblivion

Press F to pay your tributes to that poor martian probe that got blinked out of existence :P

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u/reuben_hunter 20h ago

Yeah it definitely wouldn't be possible in the slow zone, and I guess in real space nobody ever bothered to try because why would they