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Although the tubes have never been seen from the outside, the knowledge of the structure of the tunnels leads to the conclusion that the tubes are arranged in a vast matrix of both parallel and consecutive tubes as illustrated in the figure 3. at right. The number of parallel tubes in any one parallelum is not known, nor is the number of consecutive parallela, and many Goqu believe that this matrix is infinite in all directions. | Although the tubes have never been seen from the outside, the knowledge of the structure of the tunnels leads to the conclusion that the tubes are arranged in a vast matrix of both parallel and consecutive tubes as illustrated in the figure 3. at right. The number of parallel tubes in any one parallelum is not known, nor is the number of consecutive parallela, and many Goqu believe that this matrix is infinite in all directions. | ||
[[File:Qu_tube_access.png|250px|thumb|right|Fig. 4. Access to tube to the west of nodes in the tunnel network, a hypothetical map designed by an artist.]]Figure 4. shows a hypothetical map of access points to | [[File:Qu_tube_access.png|250px|thumb|right|Fig. 4. Access to tube to the west of nodes in the tunnel network, a hypothetical map designed by an artist.]]Figure 4. shows a hypothetical map of access points to tubes to the west of the tunnel network within a particular interstice. Black lines represent known tunnels. Yellow dots represent nodes with access to their western tube. Red represents nodes with no access a tube to their west. While it is logically possible that there may be gaps in the matrix of tubes, there is no way that the absence of a tube could be proven and many instances where a gap was presumed have later been found to contain a tube to which no one knew the way before. Many tubes are inaccessible from one end but accessible from another. For example, the tube behind a red node on the map in figure 4. may be accessible from the other end and a similar map drawn for the interstice at its other end could have an entirely different layout. Some tubes may have an unscalable wall (''makio'') at one end. In others, climbing the ''makio'' is possible, but there is no apparent opening into the network of tunnels. The tunnels themselves are blocked in many places. In some cases, the only way to travel from one tube to one of its immediate parallel neighbours may be to travel through several consecutive tubes before shifting to a parallel tube and travelling all the way back through consecutive tubes. The Goqu summarise parallel tubes of this nature as ''ei mie kuaqa'', 'close yet far' and new routes and new tubes are occasionally discovered, making it clear to all within Qu that their world is much larger than what they know of it. | ||
== Weather and climate == | == Weather and climate == | ||