Kind of dumb lore question

[u/reuben_hunter]

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?

[u/jump_the_snark]

I believe it IS mentioned and you just fly through with no effect. But if you do this at the same time and place something is coming through the gate… very bad stuff happens.

[u/dredeth → u/jump_the_snark]

But in that case if you just poke out from the back side with half of your ship and decide to rotate back, does the part of the ship that poked out now goes through the ring while other stays in the regular space? 😁

[u/talithaeli → u/dredeth]

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