(Namespace: plural glossary)

System-hopping is a capability or claimed capability of some systems to admit travellers into or out of the system, from or unto other systems (existing in other bodies).

This capability might be believed to be supernatural in nature, e.g. achieved via telepathy, or it might be explained organically, e.g. in terms of parogenic factive introjection of the source system's headmate(s) into the destination system.

Much of the plural community is skeptical of system-hopping, particularly in cases where it's proposed to involve supernatural elements. On the other hand, system-hoppers often experience this skepticism as a form of system exclusionism.

It is a known and very unfortunate fact that some people fake the ability to system-hop in order to deceive, exploit, manipulate, and/or take advantage of other systems.