summary

• people (travellers) operate spaceships.
• spaceships encase travellers, protecting their privacy and mediating their identit[ies] and interaction with cypherspace.
• spaceships have bridges/cockpits that people use to operate them.
• spaceships have engines that are used to control and direct the flow of information through them from different parts of cypherspace.
• data in cypherspace appears in different galaxies, whose coherence is maintained by egalitarian and free programs and protocols.
• orbitals are persistent cryptographically bounded spaces within galaxies that spaceships can visit. they may set (and implement) their own policies as they choose, according to the respect their residents and visitors pay them.