In the Hyperion universe, a farcaster is an instantaneous transportation device. Farcasters allow two points separated by a vast distance to be brought together at a Farcaster Portal. The Farcaster network connects hundreds of planets of the Hegemony of Man into their WorldWeb. The Farcaster network allowed transport between connected worlds without any time discrepancy, unlike FTL transport provided by spaceships of the Hegemony era. The Farcaster was developed by the Artificial Intelligences (… (More on Farcaster)