Drift Gate

### Effects

Creation of Exotic Gravitomagnetic Topographies, facilitating FTL travel between star systems

### Source

Hadimus Gateforge (formerly)Vidara Gateforge

**Intersolar Gravitomagnetic Accelerators**, colloquially known as **Drift Gates** or simply **Gates**, are torus-shaped space structures with a 3,000-meter diameter used to accelerate spacecraft to transrelativistic velocities, essentially enabling interstellar travel, exploration, and colonization.

## Overview

### Specifications

Drift gates are colossal structures, unparalleled in technological sophistication and architecture, that allow interstellar travel. They require significant quantities of drift for their construction, however, once completed, superluminal travel are nearly perfectly efficient (η -> 100%).

Drift Gates work by exploiting a general loophole in the Theory of Universal Relativity (UR), specifically, the very continuous expansion of space-time itself and the associated gravimetric implications. Encompassing the lesser General Relativity (GR) and Quantum Theory of Gravity (QG) into a perfectly harmonious metric, UR accurately describes the most sensible properties of the universe, and, thus, allow the acceleration of massive particles to transrelativistic velocities (effective superluminal speeds) past lightspeed, circumventing the need of infinite acceleration and energy. UR shed light on the nature of causality and inertial frames of reference in such a way that causality is known to be transrelativistic in itself and, thus, no causal violation is possible.

Despite their sophistication, drift gate travel is highly inaccurate when a single gate is involved in the process. To address this, a second gate is usually present at the destination, shrinking the margin of error; this interstellar "corridor" is called a Drift Lane, and almost all commonly used routes within the Cluster make use of such Lanes.

## Use

Drift gates are at the center of interstellar commerce and trade. They maintain important lines of communications between systems through the use of courier drones (Or Pigeons as dubbed by Croft) . Drones are used regularly to upload positional data and specific gravitational calculations to ensure correctional alignment from 2 gates. Messages are collected and stored, to be sent to the other gate along with the correctional positional data which is then disseminated to recipients via Tight-beam or broadband, ensuring quick communications throughout the cluster.

The destruction of a Drift Gate in interstellar combat is considered a very grievous violation of the accepted rules of warfare, as is using a Drift Gate as a weapon.

## Notable Drift Gates

* Centrum-Pioneer Drift Gate
* Meric's Keep Gate
* Edric's Gate

## Known Drift Gates

**Atamara Crossroads System connections:**

* Atamara Crossroads - Axius Drift Gate
* Atamara Crossroads - Dalstaff Drift Gate
* Atamara Crossroads - Teldrin Drift Gate
* Atamara Crossroads - Seravis Major Drift Gate

**Axius System connections:**

* Axius - Atamara Crossroads Drift Gate
* Axius - Meric's Keep Drift Gate.
* Axius - Pioneer Drift Gate

**Cardeus Brink System connections:**

* Cardeus Brink - Seravis Major Drift Gate
* Cardeus Brink - CDC-41-Gamma Drift Gate (Edric's Gate)

**Centrum System connections:**

* Centrum - Keeper's Dance Drift Gate
* Centrum - Pioneer Drift Gate
* Centrum - Rialtis Drift Gate
* Centrum - Valeria Sibus Drift Gate

**Dalstaff System connections:**

* Dalstaff - Atamara Crossroads Drift Gate
* Dalstaff - Maiala's Rest Drift Gate

**Firewatch System connections:**

* Firewatch - Rialtis Drift gate

**Keeper's Dance System connections:**

* Keeper's Dance - Centrum
* Keeper's Dance - Mericia

**Maiala's Rest System connections:**

* Maiala's Rest - Dalstaff Drift Gate
* Maiala's Rest - Teldrin Drift Gate

**Mericia System connections:**

* Mericia - Keeper's Dance Drift Gate
* Mericia - Meric's Keep Drift Gate

**Meric's Keep System connections:**

* Meric's Keep - Axius Drift Gate
* Meric's Keep - Mericia Drift Gate

**Pioneer System connections:**

* Pioneer - Axius Drift Gate
* Pioneer-Centrum Drift Gate

**Rialtis System connections:**

* Rialtis - Centrum Drift Gate
* Rialtis - Firewatch Drift Gate

**Seravis Major System connections:**

* Seravis Major - Atamara Crossroads Drift Gate
* Seravis Major - Cardeus Brink Drift Gate
* Seravis Major - Valeria Sibus Drift Gate

**Teldrin System connections:**

* Teldrin - Atamara Crossroads Drift Gate
* Teldrin - Maiala's Rest Drift Gate

**Valeria Sibus System Connections:**

* Valeria Sibus - Cardeus Brink Drift Gate
* Valeria Sibus - Centrum Drift Gate
* Valeria Sibus - Vidara Drift Gate

**Vidara System connections:**

* Vidara - Valeria Sibus Drift Gate