Teleportation

Teleportation is the transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. The phenomenon has also appeared in the Fallout series.
==Overview==
A virtually unseen technology in the United States before the Great War, at least three sources of technology that resembles teleportation have been depicted in the series:
===Big MT===
The Big Mountain Transportalponder! was created by the Big MT Company at their research facility as a a handheld device that serves to teleport one person to and from a location. However, it is strictly one-way and apparently requires the usage of satellites as shown by the Courier being initially transported to Big MT by interacting with a fallen satellite at the Mojave Drive-in and then later, with the Transportalponder!, only being able to teleport to either the Drive-In from Big MT and the Sink from the Mojave Wasteland. It also cannot transport multiple people, as it requires one to dismiss all companions, nor can it be used indoors, requiring one to be "outdoors".
===The Institute===
Following the Great War, the Institute developed their own independent form of teleportation via what they dub the "Molecular Relay", which utilizes radio waves to carry the signal for the Relay and to transmit the coordinates of the user in order to select them for teleportation into the sealed-off facility.Brian Virgil: "You know the craziest part of the design? That classical music station... that's the carrier signal for the relay. All the data's on harmonic frequencies... You've been hearing it all along. I want to be clear that this isn't my area of expertise. I was BioScience, not Engineering or Advanced Systems or anything. Here's the simple explanation: you need to build a device that will hijack the signal the Institute uses to teleport Coursers, and send you instead."(Brian Virgil's dialogue) The Relay serves as the only direct means of entering the Institute, which has kept them from invasion by external threats for decades. Unlike the Big MT technology, the Institute's means of teleportation is not one-way as it can be used to travel to any known location in the Commonwealth as well as transporting multiple people (though not at once, as each individual has to be selected).As shown via use of the Molecular Relay during several quests
Additionally, the Institute incorporates special hardware into the synth component implants given to Coursers, elite Gen 3 synth units used to conduct surface operations, allowing them to enter and leave via the Relay at will.Fallout 4 loading screens: "Inside every synth Courser is a specialized chip that is instrumental in 'relaying' into the Institute. Obtaining that chip is the first step in infiltrating the shadowy organization."The Sole Survivor: "Why do I have to kill one?"Virgil: "Because you want to get into the Institute, remember? They're your ticket in. Every Courser has special hardware that gives them a direct connection to the Relay in the Institute. It's embedded in a chip in their heads. You need that chip. But to get it, you'll have to find a Courser. Now I don't know exactly where you can find one. They haven't sent any after me, and sitting here waiting doesn't seem like a good plan. You're going to have to hunt one down. I can tell you where to start, and give you some help finding one, but you'll have to do the dirty work."(Brian Virgil's dialogue)
===Mothership Zeta===
The Zetans' significant technological advantage includes deploying teleportation matrices to circumnavigate their motherships more easily.
==References==
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