Gravity Leylines

Gravity Leylines are the collective network of pseudotunnels that span across Crunkiverse 00A, and are the primary means of FTL travel used by the Crandis Federation and the Space Police. Due to the Crunch, the majority of the gravity leylines have been destroyed or otherwise relocated. This has made FTL travel a near impossibility as the current map of leylines has to be recreated.

## Origin

Gravity Leylines were first discovered by the Crandis Federation 1000 years ago, when high densities of gravitational energy were investigated by the newly created Crandis Space Armada. The first ships to approach the leylines were destroyed, and so a research station was created near the anomaly for further study.

After learning the properties of the leylines, the first tests to travel along the gravity leylines were performed with little success. It was not until the discovery of Halcyonic steel that the Crandis were successfully able to enter a gravity leyline. However, the material still could not withstand the inside of the leyline and would be obliterated. It was not until the first Binary Aether Reactor was created that FTL travel would be achieved. After a ship made of Halcyonic steel fitted with a BAR successfully travelled along a gravity leyline, the Crandis quickly spread across the Crunkiverse and mapped out all known gravity leylines.

During the Crunch, almost all gravity leylines were disrupted and many collapsed. It is thought that the total number has decreased by 34% and an additional 54% have changed configuration. This has significantly decreased the amount of Crandian influence, as the materials needed to create ships able to travel the leylines are light years apart without FTL travel.

## Description

Gravity leylines are best described as cracks in the fabric of reality, and said cracks are able to maintain an absolute vacuum. An absolute vacuum is devoid of even reality itself, and as such the surrounding space-time wants to fill these cracks to maintain order. The constant influx of space-time into the cracks is what creates the gravity leyline, as despite the attempts to destroy the absolute vacuum, it is maintained. The resulting leylines are volumes of nonspace surrounded by an amount of gravity comparable to a black hole.

The inside of a gravity leyline is completely void of all reality, and is the only known instance of a stable nonspace in the Crunkiverse. The nonspace is maintained by a mysterious energy that has not yet been identified due to the difficulty of researching the leylines. However, this energy is the primary stabilizer of the leyline, as it has been shown to completely reject all matter that would appear inside. Any matter inside a leyline is immediately annihilated into pure Aether, and the energy seems to annihilated as well. This makes it an extremely dangerous area, perhaps the most lethal place in the Crunkiverse. However, with the creation of the BAR, Crandian ships can travel inside the nonspace by using the BAR to maintain an amount of reality surrounding the ship. After a ship crosses the event horizon of the leyline, a ship properly outfitted with a BAR can travel inside the nonspace.

The nonspace has proven to be the most efficient way to travel in the Crunkiverse, as the laws of physics no longer apply. Ships can travel light years distance instantaneously due to a lack of inertia as well as a lack of time. The only true metric inside a gravity leyline is distance, and it nearly impossible to determine accurately as interacting with the nonspace is impossible outside of Halcyon Beacons.

## Halcyon Beacons

The first problem after the BAR was created was how to exit the gravity leyline properly. Due to the lack of reality inside it, there was not a way to know when to exit the leyline. Not longer after this problem was noticed, the Halcyon Beacon was invented by Dr. Goodfellow. These large devices created of 99.99% pure Halcyonic Argentum were placed surrounding a gravity leyline at a given point and were outfited with their own BAR. When active, a Halcyon Beacon employs a particle emitter to shoot particles into the gravity leyline past the event horizon. The primary goal of this is to hopefully send a particle through the gravity leyline and into the DOG idk how to write this we might need a new particle fr.

## Trivia

The widespread use of gravity leylines caused the creation of the Space Police.