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Instrument file · SHORT CIRCUIT · DSS-R1

SHORT CIRCUIT

Hybrid routing · Live chain data · Fleet-legible output

It blends stargates with wormholes that are open right now, and returns the shortest way through. The mistakes it saves you from are replaced by a different and more interesting set.

Field-issuedDesktop instrumentSource published
Designation
SHORT CIRCUIT · Routing and Navigation · DSS-R1
Division
Spatial Relations
Form
Desktop application
Platforms
macOS · Windows · Linux
Requires
Nothing to route. EVE SSO optional, for reading your position and setting waypoints.
A route resolved across gates and open wormholes, with the jump instructions it will hand to fleet chat.
A route resolved across gates and open wormholes, with the jump instructions it will hand to fleet chat.

What it does

It routes through holes as well as gates. The engine builds a transient graph from live connection data and computes the shortest path across high, low, null and wormhole space together, respecting your avoidance list and the size restrictions of each hole without once asking your reasons. Two systems that are thirty jumps apart by gate are frequently four by chain, and this is the instrument that notices.

It reads several maps at once. Eve-Scout for Thera and Turnur, your corporation's Tripwire, your own Wanderer map — several accounts of the same provider included, because sometimes you have trust issues and that is fine. Everything is funnelled into one connection database that handles deduplication, conflict resolution and freshness. When two sources disagree about a hole, and they will, the more recent record wins. This is as close to wisdom as software gets.

It has opinions, and they are adjustable. Filter by ship size, exclude end-of-life holes, exclude holes at critical mass, ignore anything older than a stated age. Four sliders express your feelings about each class of space: set null to the maximum and the router will thread you through three consecutive wormholes before it will glance at a null gate.

It hands the answer to the fleet. One click copies the route as clean fleet-chat text, or as a full instruction table with jump-by-jump directions, signature identifiers and wormhole status. Efficient, professional, and deeply unlikely to save anyone from a smartbomb.

The sources panel: per-provider toggles, targeted refresh, and how stale each map has become.
The sources panel: per-provider toggles, targeted refresh, and how stale each map has become.

Collect it

The counterlatest release
The macOS build is universal and covers both Apple silicon and Intel. Every release is listed at the release register.
Filed
DSS-R1
Maps read
Tripwire · Wanderer · Eve-Scout
SSO
Optional
Account required
None

Provenance. This is Cormorant Fell's edition, and a personal project: if you want the stable, maintained article, secondfry's Short Circuit is the one with adults in charge.

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