Choudhury StarLock

Starlock Choudhury is the StarLock located closest to the planet Earth; 4.3 light years away in the vicinity of the Alpha Centauri system. It was built in the 43rd Century as an experiment to facilitate interstellar travel. Because it was feared that the technology… which involved collapsing a star into a black hole and re-mattering an entire planetary mass around it… could irreparably damage the sole system, the Choudhoury Project (named for the Ultra-Physicist who led it, Dr. Ku Choudhury) performed their work in the Alpha Centauri system. The star known as Proxima Centauri was collapsed to form the singularity, and planetary material from the Beta Centauri system was re-mattered into a ring of neutronium to encircle the Singularity and create the starlock mechanism. (Because of the relatively small mass of Proxima Centauri, the Choudhury Starlock is only 160 kilometers in diameter, and its range is far less than later designs. However, it was successful in demonstrating the concept of facilitating interstellar transport through fixed quantum bridges.
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