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===== Fiction-safe mechanism you can use (no real-world instructions, just story rules) =====

If you want your story to use the “dimensional place swap” idea while remaining internally consistent and dramatically satisfying, use the following constraints and consequences:
# Technology name & rule: call it the Phase Anchor / Exchange Gate. It doesn’t move mass through space — it temporarily maps the microstate manifold of one region to another, anchored by exotic boundary conditions. That keeps things plausibly alien rather than engineering-y.
# Cost & limitation: the Exchange Gate needs an anchor mass proportional to the mass swapped (and that anchor is destroyed each use). Make the cost astronomical — a quarry of a dozen neutron-star cores or the energy-equivalent of a small moon. That explains rarity and moral weight.
# Rate limit: swaps can’t be instantaneous for large masses. The gate threads quantum-coherent states and tries to “transpose” them; doing so too fast creates decoherence storms (neutrino storms, spacetime shear). So a rushed swap risks immediate black-hole formation — raising stakes if your characters try to speed it up.
# Side effects & signatures: the operation leaks neutrinos and high-frequency gravitational disturbances, collapses magnetospheres, and flickers outer envelopes. Observatories on Earth see a neutrino spike and odd gravitational noise before the brightening. That gives investigators something to detect and pursue.
# Ethics & politics: factions debate whether to use a swap to “accelerate” a star to save/weaponize a civilization — good dramatic fuel. Include clandestine actors who justify “nudging” as necessary, and others who fear cosmic fallout.
# Outcome variability: the swap doesn’t guarantee a standard supernova. Depending on alignment, rotation, and envelope structure it could produce a full bright SN, a failed SN (prompt black hole), or a narrow relativistic jet (GRB) that irradiates neighboring planets. That uncertainty keeps your plot flexible.