Wormhole technology

## B-class wormholes

These "Brane-class" connectors link different spacetime n-branes of the same vibrational mode, with "n" being the same value (usually 4) at both ends. Extremely high-level AI (Level 6 or beyond) are needed in order to both construct and operate these wormholes. The various basement or baby universes created by these AI are connected to the "parent" universe by one or more B-class wormholes.

## C-class wormholes

These are "conventional" wormholes that "merely" connect different simply-connected regions of a spacetime n-brane (usually n=4) in physical space with the same vibrational mode. This technology has been developed by numerous civilizations in the galaxy and beyond over the course of many epochs, and the discovery of a new ancient C-class network can lead to a rapid increase in the expansion rate of a successor civilization.

C-class wormholes require Level 3 AI to construct and Level 2 AI to operate. They are usually one of the first great inventions of Level 3 AI when these are developed by a civilization, and their appearance is what makes a civilization truly "galactic," as opposed to merely "interstellar."

## I-class wormholes

These are perhaps the most difficult wormholes for organic beings to understand. They supposedly involve transformations of the large and small dimensions of the 11-dimensional spacetime brane (which appears 4-dimensional at larger scales.) Such transformations allow access to other realms that are physically coincident with our own, but are usually inaccessible.

I-class wormholes are a current research topic of the highest-level AI in the Terran sphere. No alien civilization, past or present, is known to have mastered this technology, although the **Meistersingers** are suspected to have I-class wormhole technology.

## Q-class wormholes

These theoretical wormholes would connect different branches of the quantum multiverse. Various transcended/sublimed civilizations are said to have access to this technology, though nothing is known for certain.

## T-class wormholes

Another theoretical type that would grant access to past time-states of a spacetime brane. Situations such as the Grandfather Paradox would be overcome by the creation of an alternate branch of the wavefunction at the point of the "temporal intervention." Considered to be even more speculative than Q-class wormholes.

## V-class wormholes (portals)

These wormholes, also known as *portals*, connect different vibrational modes of the same brane. In a sense, these are the inverse of B-class wormholes, which are exclusively the domain of AI. V-class wormholes are exclusively the domain of organic beings. Transcendence (both individual and collective) is a phenomenon linked to wormholes of this kind and the higher vibrational modes they give access to, as are many phenomena that in earlier times were called "spiritual" or "supernatural."

Several current civilizations, including the Terran Sphere, have access to V-class wormhole technology.

Unlike all the other wormhole types, V-class wormholes do not need to be placed far from strong gravitational fields, and thus are often found on planetary surfaces.