Kyberspace

A mockup of what Kyberspace might look like.

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## General Information

Kyberspace is a strange place located between dimensions that few have ever seen. It is a digital plane that houses all of the novel's data in a more tangible form. In addition, it contains the Internet and all of its related connectivity as well as the unique energy that gives the Hackers their power. The only way to access this place is to either be "disconnected" from the novel, or dissolved into data which would then travel through the Kyberspace.

## Description

The space appears to be a tunnel or a tube surrounded by a black void with endless streams of data flowing through it. The data itself is a teal-like green and comes in all shapes and sizes. There are many twists and turns to this tube, but no clear end point in sight. The walls have digital markings and symbols on them, with some being rectangular and others being circular. Sometimes, one might stumble across an Internet access point where a window displaying what someone is doing online will pop up. These windows can be used as portals to the real world should someone become trapped in the data stream.

## Appearances

#### Season 2

* *Betrayal (Or Why I Have Trust Issues)*
* *The Boring Conclusion*

Kyberspace has not appeared much in the novel, but it is a place that always exists just outside of it. During the events of *Betrayal (Or Why I Have Trust Issues),* Zatch dramatically betrays Zack and ties him up in the hopes that he will simply die, allowing Zatch to take over his role in the novel. Zack manages to escape by exploiting his one weakness as a Hacker: being able to be disconnected from the novel. When this happens, he vanishes and reappears in Kyberspace after his various data reforms itself. Here, he reveals that the same thing happened when he disconnected during the bike race earlier in the year before heading off to find an exit. He later finds one when he stumbles across a video call that Amber is hosting. After intercepting it, he uses it as a portal and comes flying out of her computer screen. While he was trapped in Kyberspace, he noticed a strange ball of data that seemed to be rapidly transforming. This bizarre phenomenon later resulted in the Glitch Show, a clump of broken data and assets mashed together.

It appears once more towards the end of *The Boring Conclusion*, which is the chapter that ends the big chase scene over Amber's diary. After being trapped in the Glitch Show for so long, things gradually begin to stabilize and start functioning properly. During the big musical number that ended the chase, Zack dropped a yacht onto the floor, causing it to crumble and send him, Nathan and Amber falling through Kyberspace. This revealed that the Glitch Show was actually located within Kyberspace and the strange ball of data became its own mini-universe. As the corrupted data stabilized, the ball holding it together was no longer needed, and so the space collapsed, dropping the three back into their proper world.

## Trivia

* Hackers draw power from Kyberspace when they use their Hacks. What power this is specifically is unknown, but it's implied that Hacks use the novel's own code to defy it. As a result, there must be link to Kyberspace that allows for this transfer of power. If it were to be severed, Hackers would lose their abilities.
* This place is very similar to the White Void, yet different. The White Void serves more as an endless plane of Oblivion while Kyberspace is where the novel's data flows.
* Interestingly, while Kyberspace is viewable to those inside the novel under certain circumstances, it is impossible to see what it really looks like unless you are inside of it. For example, when Zack was trapped in Kyberspace in Season 2, he was able to intercept a video call hosted by Amber. On his end, the background behind him was that of a beach instead of Kyberspace.

## Gallery

A mockup of what Zack might have looked like traveling through Kyberspace.