Tubulet

The tubulet (portmanteau of tubule and network) is a system that enables faster-than-light travel. By exploiting the serugasium field's transmission of sapience across infinite distances, information and energy can be moved across the universe in an instant.
==Information==
The Tubule is an artifically-engineered Complien, much like the Blanneqin. Tubules are Spectral Element, do not grow, and have no spells. They have the instinct Syzygy. They come in all different sizes, from the size of a car to the size of a small city.
The serugasium field has the odd property of instantaneously transmitting information. When a Tubule increases the level of serugasium on a point in the serugasium field, that point and its associated information can be accessed by any other Tubule, with zero regard to the speed of causality.
Additionally, thanks to the interaction between the serugasium and magical fields, serugasium can be converted to magitons, which can then be converted to physical matter, and vice versa. Thus, a Tubule can turn a spaceship into magitons and turn those magitons into serugasium, so that another Tubule can turn that serugasium back into magitons into a spaceship.
The only problem occurs when moving sentient creatures through the tubulet. Due to their existing serugasium, sentient beings make it difficult to determine which serugasium is sentience and which serugasium is matter. Sending sentient beings through a Tubule leads to strange results, such as having the atoms of their molecules in all the wrong places.
The solution is a Subule (portmanteau of sub- and tubule). Subules are Compliens of the Spectral and Warp Elements that can pass through Tubules as serugasium, but maintain a tiny pocket universe at the same time. By staying within a Subule's pocket universe, matter can remain matter while still moving at FTL speeds through the tubulet.
One other issue is that it is impossible to move to any place where there isn't already a Tubule, which themselves can only move at STL speeds. This issue is mitigated through use of the Tubulet Focusing Facility, which uses insane amounts of power to tear a wormhole through spacetime and deposit a Tubule at any location in the universe.
==History==
The principles of a tubulet have been theorized since Complinoids discovered the serugasium field and its properties, but it was only around 3,004,525C that a working Tubule was created on Complanet for the first time.
Tubules were quickly sent to the other planets of the Complisolar System and to the colony of Sworld. A few decades later, Raethians arrived through a Tubule, sparking the Complien-Raethian War. A few decades after that, Boarlocks created their own tubulet and made contact with Complanet.
The Mogurians created their own tubulet, but due to lack of maintenance, most of the Tubules are either dead or nonfunctional.
==Trivia==
*Tubules are actually heavily-modified Solupires. Subules are groups of esperomagetic magitons engineered from Alcubears.
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