Editing Space (section)

==Upper Atmosphere==
Space is [[Wikipedia:Kármán line|traditionally defined]] as beginning 100km (62 mi; 330,000 ft) above the Earth's sea level, but some vestiges of atmosphere continue to extend for many hundreds of kilometers beyond that.

In [[Earth Bet]], [[the Simurgh]] rests in the upper atmosphere<ref name="I16.3e1">Sixty-two miles above the surface of the Earth, the Simurgh changed the course of her flight.<br><br>Following protocol for when Dragon was deployed on a mission, the system routed the message to one of Dragon’s satellite systems.  The resulting message was scrambled by the dense signature of the Endbringer en route to Dragon.<br><br>Receiving the garbled transmission from the satellite, a subsystem of the Dragon A.I. proceeded to sort it.  A scan of the message by a further subroutine saw it classified as non-pertinent, and a snarl in the code from Defiant’s improvised adjustments to her programming saw the message skip past several additional safeties and subroutines.  The message was compartmentalized alongside other notes and data that included flares of atmospheric radiation and stray signals from the planet below; background noise at best. - [[Interlude 16.z]]</ref> or in Low Earth Orbit. While winging a lazy orbit in Earth's thermosphere, she is beyond the reach of conventional weapons.<ref>The Simurgh was currently directly three hundred and fifteen kilometers above Spain, in the Earth’s thermosphere.  It was the Simurgh that offered the most clues about what the Endbringers did in their periods of dormancy.  The Endbringer winged a lazy orbit around Earth, beyond the limits of conventional weapons, and the highest resolution camera images showed she barely moved.  Her eyes were wide open, but they did not move to track any cloud formations.  She was, despite appearances, asleep. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/interlude-10-5-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10.5]]</ref>

Many [[parahuman]] abilities stop at the edge of the atmosphere. In some cases, this is a [[Manton Limit]] to protect the parahuman (for example, a teleporter who teleported themself into hard vacuum would obviously place themself in danger).<ref name="R1">Uphill/doomed project from the start. Shards are situated on Earth, reaching through realities for corona pollentiae. Powers don't really go into space, because, well, you've got the shard situated on the planet, and their reach is stretching, stretching up & out to the person with the shard. Do they exceed the shard's reach?<br/>Broken shards don't care so much, some powers can draw energy in other ways, but by and large, powers stop being responsive or start getting fucky at some point between the upper atmosphere and 400k km out. Many powers are manton limited so they don't actually get out into the vacuum.<br/>[...]<br/>He likely had the means of creating the moon bubbles and tertiary systems and life support and keeping it running... but maintenance starts getting tricky. The first option is that the shard goes 'this is worth the effort' because Gramme is giving the shard fuel for something interesting, and all is well except for whatever it is that the shard was so keen about. The second option is that the moon base works fine, the first colony gets out there, and then somewhere along the line Gramme's well of inspiration and his eye for key details in his tinkerings just... stops. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/5isiez/standard_tinker_limitations_and_sphere/dbbiwel/?context=3 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> [[Clairvoyant]]'s power was one that was confined to the limits of [[Earths|Earth's]] atmosphere.<ref name="30.4e1">Some were objectives I couldn’t identify, even with the clairvoyant.  He only saw within the boundaries of Earth’s atmosphere.<br/>[...]<br/>My ranged capes aimed for portals once again.  This time, I put the exit portals against Earth’s atmosphere, aiming for the general direction of a satellite.<br/>
It took thirty seconds of sustained fire before Shén Yù’s power stopped telling me it was a weak point.  Other thinker powers in my range were giving me similar feedback.  A cape with perfect eyesight was telling me it could even see the explosion. - [[Speck 30.4]]</ref>