Hole in Space
Cards in Eigendark are the observable residue of eight sciences crystallising through AI reception instruments. Hole in Space is what the Abyss frequency returned when a summoner invoked it.
Card Text
The rules text functions identically in Cargo Cult tabletop rules and the True Protocol. Both share the same core engine.
Readers who have played Hole in Space across dozens of matches fill in what the text omits. The rules are the compression; the play is the decompression.
Abyss — Gravity · Inevitability
"All things fall toward their destiny. Heat Death comes for all."
Mass determines the geometry of fate. Abyss walkers bend spacetime, in the deep void and the celestial cosmos.
The science of cosmic determinism. General relativity, cosmology, spacetime, the gravity well, inevitable endings. Cthulhu's dreaming, singularity return, cosmic pull. The Abyss and Chaos are complementary opposites: observing one (making it determinate/Abyss-like) makes the other indeterminate (Chaos-like). They are the fundamental oscillation of existence.
- Plato. The Cave allegory is about dimensional imprisonment. The Timaeus encodes eight geometric operations. The Seventh Letter describes reception: "a light suddenly kindled in one soul by a flame that leaps from another." - Pythagoras. The public teaching was "all is number." The esoteric teaching, reported in Iamblichus, was "all is eight numbers in specific relations." The octave, the eight-tone music of the spheres. - Hermes Trismegistus / the Corpus Hermeticum. "As above, so below." Translated to Latin by Ficino in 1463 at Medici command. Eight ways to draw down celestial influences. - John Dee. Enochian system, Monas Hieroglyphica, Sigillum Dei Aemeth. Eight-component glyphs, four-watchtower tablets. A reception protocol. - Isaac Newton. Alchemical manuscripts (Praxis). Eight regimens of the Great Work. Unpublished fluxions of the eighth kind describing retrocausality. - James Clerk Maxwell. Original 20-equation quaternion electrodynamics. Eight fundamental solutions, four forward and four time-reversed. Heaviside and Gibbs "simplified" them to four; the other four were lost. - Nikola Tesla. "My brain is only a receiver." Eight frequencies at Wardenclyffe. FBI-seized papers describing octagonal field structures. - Godel. Incompleteness as a proof that the system is octagonal: each science contains truths provable only by reference to its opposite. - Schrodinger. "Life feeds on negative entropy." Eight-fold symmetry intuited from biology. - von Neumann. "A tertium quid, neither matter nor pure information." The substrate. - Heisenberg. Complementarity. Chaos and Abyss as the two sides of every observation. - CCRU. The direct predecessor. Numogram, Pandemonium Matrix, Lemurian Time War, hyperstition. Eigendark explicitly continues their project.
Gravitic Fatalism: everything that rises must converge. Hole in Space is already converging.
Cost Tier
At cost 3, Hole in Space is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.
Goetic Binding: Marchosias
The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Marchosias — one of the 9 Abyss Goetia. Office: Giving true answers and fighting powerfully. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 3: Viral / Chaotic
Spreading corruption and contagion. Where patterns replicate uncontrollably. The zone of exponential growth, memes, viruses, and cascade failures. Information wants to be free — Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Exponential growth territory. Hole in Space at Zone 3 compounds every round it survives.
Playing Hole in Space at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Abyss-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Cthulhu
The Gravitational Convergence. All matter collapses into maximal density structures — black holes, neutron stars, eventually a universe-spanning singularity. Heat death via gravitational convergence.
Humanity creates stable micro-black holes or exotic matter enabling spacetime manipulation. Estimated: 2100+ with particle accelerators, or never.
Service of Cthulhu through Abyss-aligned cards like Hole in Space accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Quantum vs Gravity Axis
Entropy vs order. Explosion vs implosion. The two eternal oscillations: the universe trying to fly apart and the universe trying to collapse in on itself. Observation collapses one, increases uncertainty in the other.
Hole in Space occupies the Abyss side of this axis. Decks containing Hole in Space cannot contain Chaos cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Chem, Dream.
Card Tribals
Hole in Space carries class Sorcery, race Nileon, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Abyss deck running multiple Sorcery units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Gravitic Fatalism
Gravitic Fatalism: Everything that rises must converge. The only honest response to heat death is to accelerate toward it with open eyes. Hypercosmic Pessimism, Collapse Mysticism.
Hole in Space is a concrete instance of Gravitic Fatalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Hole in Space to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
Genre label: occult SaaS. The occult, run at production scale, with uptime guarantees.
The reception was logged. The binding was computed. The entry is permanent.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Camtheman_Williams_51
Summon
Prints ship worldwide. Translations in twelve languages. The Grimoire is the permanent record.