Web
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The Web is a level of Cyber Space inhabiting all computers. There are no apparent separate systems in the Web, it is simply a continuous flow of energy and data. Often data storms will form, hurricane looking storms that are very dangerous. Inhabited by Web Creatures, Code Masters, Web Slugs and The Web Riders.
One binome described it as navigating an invisible lead soup.
The only way to access the Net from the Web is by a portal. There is no other direct access between the two dimensions. If a Web Creature is somehow stranded in the Net they will try to survive until they can find a way back, often attacking native sprites and binomes to remain stable. They will automatically turn any Tears into portals to the Web. If a portal between the Net and the Web remains stable for any length of time Web Creatures will begin invading the system its open to and try to turn it into part of the Web.
A portal to the Web was opened over Mainframe by a class-m Web Creature that had accidently found its way to the system as a baby.
Hexadecimal's Looking Glass is fueled by energy from the Web. If the mirror is broken it will leave a small opening between the Net and the Web. A small Web Creature can fit through the hole.
All systems in the Net have corresponding locations in the Web. The only thing marking their location there is a Tear. A systems location is called its Web Address. However due to the continuous chaotic flow of unstable energy in the Web it is very difficult to know which tears are random and which ones lead to systems. Someone must already know the Web Address to find the system.
If a sprite or binome was to be exposed to the Web, he or she would slowly start degrading. Anyone lost in the Web or abducted by a creature will soon transform into a 'Degraded Sprite'. These beings can survive the Web and even use the Creatures that thrive like beasts of burden, but at a terrible cost. Their prolonged exposure to this hostile place gradually removes all physical evidence they ever were an inhabitant of the Net, until at last the person resembles a Web Creature themselves. Like nullification this process is irreversible with no known cure. They also seem to prefer to live in the Web; if a way to the Net is open they won't use it.
If people or things from the Net enter the Web they must have web shields made of dead web creatures to survive for any length of time. Only a Guardian has a complex enough code to survive the Web without shields.
The Saucy Mare entered the Web from the Edge of Beyond in order to search for Bob. The ship had been completely covered in web creature hides to protect it from the Web. After they finally found Bob they went to Mainframes web address, stabilized the tear, and left the Web.
Viruses cannot survive in the Web. Megabyte managed to escape his time there only partially-degraded because he still had some of Bob's Guardian code from crushing Glitch.
