Its more of a … quantum lock to the local or nearest gravity Well. One of the few parts of the presentation I Didn’t find too egrigious.
I love Max Singularity and I think he’s a brilliant man, but I very much do think he tried to hard to explain many things that were explained by a few devs to just be well… Game mechanics. And created an entire slew of other problems in so doing where most of his attempts to explain things fall apart under cursory inspection beyond surface.