Mehdi Gate

The Mehdi Gate is the only artificial wormhole in the Corvosphere, which links Tiantang to The Labyrinth.
== Travel Beyond Tiantang ==
Interstellar trade, travel and exploitation requires access to The Labyrinth, and this is facilitated by the Mehdi Gate, named after its creator Mehdi Ben. All of the spaceports in Tiantang have scheduled flights to the Mehdi Ben complex, which sends thousands of ships into space every day.
Officially, the Mehdi Gate is officially an extension of the Megacorps' Sectors (The Union Sector, Wang Sector, Nation's Solution Sector), but isn't owned by any of them. It has been listed as one of the Top Ten Important Places by CorvoNet every year for nearly 250 years.
Although the gate is hundreds of kilometres wide, it can barely deal with the volume of traffic which numbers in the hundreds of thousands of ships per day. This volume of traffic requires careful control: for the vast majority of users, scheduling a departure requires months of bureaucracy, but for the wealthy and powerful, priority departure passes are available for purchase.
Regular users seeking to use the Mehdi Gate can queue for days or months, can lead to transitory - and on occasion, more permanent - communities forming among 'campers'. Sometimes campers decide they can't wait any longer, and go for the gate, causing traffic chaos, accidents. Those who aren't killed and make it to the gate are rarely heard from again. Mercenaries are always welcome to attempt to recover them, and there would be generous rewards from employers and families.
The area around the Mehdi Gate, where the camper communities form, is known as the 'Spill Sector' by Tians.
== Ownership Controversy ==
Representatives of Shiyan Sector have repeatedly petitioned for the gate to recognised as an extension of Shiyan because Mehdi Ben was a citizen of that sector. Although these petitions have been repeatedly denied, they keep trying.
== Replicating the Gate ==
Although Mehdi Ben opened the gate and linked Tiantang to The Labyrinth, the creation was more luck than judgment and in truth, the scientists and engineers who created it don't know how to recreate it.
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