Folding Spacetime Lattice Interdiction

Folding Spacetime Lattice Interdiction (FSLI) is a form of interdiction generation utilized by the Gauss Dominion. While more typical gravity wave interdiction would be utilized to create teleport denial fields, this was the primary form utilized for interdicting enemy space travel.

## Functionality

The Folding Spacetime Lattice is so named in that it is, in some depictions of the exotic physics utilized is folded or carried by the device itself. When the device was provided with immense amounts of energy it would unfold a compacted lattice of spacetime strings attached to the ship, in an effect remotely similar to hardlight generation. These strings would link exotic preon rods. These rods appeared as zero-dimensional particles in real space but were in fact extremely long one dimensional rods stretching across the hyperspace dimension. At each juncture a 4 dimensional hypersphere of normalized space would be created creating a 4d crystalline lattice of normalized space.

This had the effect of prohibiting all forms of faster than light travel, teleportation or phasic technologies from being utilized within the targeted area, and forcing ships inside of higher dimensions back into to real space. Unlike gravity wave interdiction it was impossible to overpower or bypass this effect without destroying. Attempting to overpower the effect via brute force would impart energy back to the generator. This energy could be removed via displacement chillers, though if it became sufficient it could flip the generation matrix links into strange matter triggering a localized vacuum decay event destroying the generator and whatever ship or station it was attached to. Larger generators were more reinforced to this effect.

In layman's terms if one utilized sufficient brute force they could destroy the generator by trying to power through it with an FTL drive. Doing so would likely atomize the ship or facility it was mounted to.

## History

The generation system was designed and built by the Mediocine Tribemind, a close knit group of conglomorate cies and intelligent scientists often working directly with the Mediocine queen on her most secritive projects. Its proper name is the *Tau'Noaesuruska Preon Hypercrystal Stabilization Engine*. Created 925DE, after it was discovered that the Courdeel had been able to bypass more conventional interdiction during the 78th Courdeel war, 13 years prior in 912DE.

### 1st Generation (925DE-952DE)

The first generation of generators were simply prototypes used for testing. Due to the incredibly esoteric nature of the technology development was extremely difficult and required the discovery of entirely new physics yet unknown to even the Mediocines. When the first generation of test generators were built they were simply to confirm that the hyper crystal could be generated and maintain stability for any length of time, but due to the spacing and precise layout of the crystal the generators did not actually prohibit FTL.

### 2nd Generation (954-977DE)

The second generation were also prototypes. They exploded when any type of FTL was activated within the field, due to having no hardening to account for the influx of energy when an FTL drive was activated in their midst, be it a Hoytachian warp drive, Farrian Womrhole drive or Subspace Drive.

### 3rd Generation (977DE-987DE)

The third generation resolved the issue of energy overload. However the crystal structure chosen for third generation generators had vulnerabilities. Specific angles if approached along a higher dimensional vector provided a clear shot for subspace catapults or various FTL weapons. The device could also destabilize randomly fail leading it to suffer non-destructive "bricking" in where the lattice was de-entangled and detached from the source generator.

### 4th Generation (988DE)

Fourth generation fields were the next wave of prototypes. These had resolved the issues of energy feedback and hyper-crystal collapse and had increased energy efficiency and compactness, but had no safeguards against capture or reverse engineering.

### 5th Generation (989DE)

Fifth generation field generators were internally identical to 4th generation ones with only minor incremental improvements. The major difference being the addition of a volatile and very advanced tamper-proof system and Lead-Tungsten alloy refraction guards around the device to prevent penetrating scans from parsing the internal layout of the engine. This could be automatically locked by a shipmaster AI or manually locked by a lead engineer at a moment's notice. Once engaged the system could not be disengaged or hacked without a one-time code. Failure to disengage this system properly or attempts to tamper or bypass it would lead to the device imploding on itself with moderate strength shaped charges designed to atomize the internals. These were deployed with the Millenium Modernization Program on many Lucidity-Class cruisers.

### 6th Generation (1079DE)

Sixth Generation field generators became compartmentalized. Where before the field was constrained to a roughly hypersphere shaped area around the ship, the field could be modulated. This would be accomplished by compartmentalizing the generator and rather than generating a singular hyper crystal it produced multiple smaller ones. This increased the cost, complexity and power usage of the generator and reduced range but allowed for much more versatility and battle-space control. Most modern GDAN interdictors still use 6th generation FSLI. This reduced the likelihood of complete atomization by attempting to overwhelm the crystal, though overpowering the device would still destroy it.

### 7th Generation (1115DE)

The Seventh generation field were are developed for the Paragon Class Dreadnought. These generators drastically resolved one of the devices' biggest shortcomings; its laughably short range. (Most interdictors constrained to around 10 million kilometers at most.) Whereas the 7th generation devices have a range of around 1.5 trillion kilometers, or about 1 light week. They also had the segmented quality of 6th generation generators and would, in theory, require the energy output of multiple large stars to overpower and destroy.

### 8th Generation (Proposed; 1234DE)

The Device is able to project a hyperspherical shell around the galaxy which in realspace is 300,000 lightyears in diameter and approximately 100 astronomical units thick. It is coupled with a large power system and sensor array which can see via MK-11011 induction sensor systems. In the Cyperian timeline the project was aided Aunariez Blackwing and carried out by the advanced systems division. It was designed to replace the need to construct untold billions of FEWIS stations around the newly colonized Samaskura. The project began in 1215DE and was slated to be completed in 1234DE.