# Glossary of Terms **Adventure Instances** Instanced Levels where a party of friends can play together. Most of the Adventure Instances are procedurally generated. **Big Time** Street slang for “Paradox Corporate,” the company that owns time. **Dyson Sphere** A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output. **Game Quests** Story-based missions that the player receives from Non-Player Characters in the game. These can be completed solo or with help from friends. Most take place in the Hub world or procedurally generated instances. **Hometime** When and where a person is originally from before coming to Time’s End. **Pocketwatch** Pocketwatches are earned in-game by defeating enemies. They allow players to switch between classes and save their progress for each class. **Time’s End** Time's End is a land at the end of space and time, converted into a refuge center for those fleeing the universe's collapse. It holds the repository of all the collected knowledge of the universe. **Time Machine** Your personal universe inside Big Time. Expand your Time Machine and production capabilities with SPACE, Time Wardens, Armories, and Forges. **Timequake** A paradox in the space-time continuum where historical norms are violated and significant ripple effects spread out and cause cracks in time and space. **Timerift** Timerifts are cracks in time and space caused by Timequakes. Timerifts only flow in one direction. Objects and even people can fall through them. They lead to other Time Collisions on any planet orbiting Time’s End. Most Timerifts are small, but sometimes even massive objects like the Titanic fall through large cracks in time. Time Collisions Allow people to “live in the past” where they can come and go as quickly as walking through a doorway created by the Paradox Engine that allows multiple divergent copies of space-time to exist in parallel time bubbles. **Wildones** Uncharted and unstable time rifts are known as “wildones.” The cracks in time show up seemingly at random, but there is a pattern of when they open and where they lead. Until a wildone has been stabilized, it is likely to disappear and reappear at a new location. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://wiki.bigtime.gg/big-time-appendix/glossary-of-terms.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.