Stopover Switch

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A stopover switch is a switch that needs to go through one or more intermediary headmates, who may be called a stopover(s).

For example, if headmate A is fronting and headmate C wants to switch, it might first be necessary to switch from headmate A to headmate B, and then from headmate B to headmate C.

This may be to any number of reasons, for example order effects, or because two headmates are "two far apart" and one or several stopovers between them have to bridge the gap.

Stopover switch may refer to the switch(es) to the stopover(s) or to the chain of switches from initial to final headmate.

A system may get "stuck" on a stopover if two headmates are co-conscious or both interested in front and the stopover between them gets frontstuck in a stalemate between them. This may be referred to as the stopover, the front, or the system itself becoming stopover-stuck.