Portals

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## Description

Major means of transportation for people and many supplies.

## History

Portals to travel around a single planet were invented in 2206 by Thaddeus Alexander Wallam-Crane, which started the Wallam-Crane dynasty and changed the way everything was done on Earth.

In 2290 Thaddeus Ignatius Wallam-Crane Invented the 5 sec. drop portal, making it possible to travel interstellar in seconds. Man was no longer confined to a single Planet. When the first maned flight portalled to a new star system where there was a planet that human's could live on in 2306, it was the start of Exodus Century and the flight of humans leaving Earth behind. So many people fled earth that Earth government and manufacturing collapsed and the parts for new portals were no longer being made anywhere.

A hundred years later and portals are failing faster and faster. Interstellar and cross sector travel has all but halted, the only ones getting anywhere are the military using their planes with drop portal technology.

***Children's Chant - End of Exodus Century***

Dial it! Dial it! Portal, dial it!

We’re ordering you by Newton.

We’re commanding you by Einstein.

We’re conjuring you by

Thaddeus Wallam-Crane!

By the 28th century portals are in common use and are more advanced then the ones before and during Exodus Century.

## Overview

Portals work on the principle of "folding space" between the sending and receiving portals, so it only takes a step to travel hundreds or thousands light years.

Portals appear differently depending on whether they are in a vacuum or atmosphere. In an atmosphere, they are described as having a flaring effect when activated. In a vacuum it is described as a "strangely flat fuzziness."

The maximum size a portal can be is 4.4 meters (abt. 14.5 feet) and by 2789 they have only successfully been able to create them up to 4 meters (abt. 13 feet) in diameter, determined by Jorgen Eklund who wrote *Physical Constraints on Portal Development*. More recently (to year 2789) Gaius Devon theorizes that portal dimensions can reach in excess of 16 meters (52.5 feet), which Fian denies as a possibility due to Gaius Devon's lack of proof and poor reputation.

Traveling by portal is the primary means of transportation on all worlds. Frontier worlds often have only basic local portals for use, except in one location for off world travel.

### Medical

There are some people that have a "Portal Intolerance" condition, but even the most serve case is treatable.

### Bio Filters

During the Thetis chaos year, the chimera from Thetis infested other planets via portals and brought humanity to the brink of annihilation. After the crisis, all portals had bio filters installed to ensure that only humans, approved creatures, and other approved organic material can travel through a portal.

## Portal Types and Usages

### Emergency Evac Portals

These are used primarily on Earth dig sites, though others may use them for various reasons. They are small, cheap, must be activated remotely, and lack the capability to change their settings. When activated they are locked open to a set destination. On dig sites, Dig Site Command activates and sets the destination of evac portals.

### Standard Portals

Used for local travel around the same continent. These are the type of portal that were initially created and set up on nearly every street corner. By the 28th century, many of the wealthy have their own standard portals in their homes. These private portals are set up with security only allowing certain people to portal in, usually controlled by a DNA check.

**Half-Size portals** are used on Solar Arrays to portal from the command center out to various locations on the "sails" or "wings", this facilitates repair work. They are used on the Arrays because the power emitted by a portal damages the solar panels, and the area affects varies as the cube of the portal radius, so using small portals minimizes the effect.
**Freight portals** are just standard portals but a larger size.
### Intercontinental Portals

These are predominantly used only on Earth as it is the only planet that has people on all five continents. All other planets of humanity only settle one continent.

### Interstellar Portals

Are used for cross-sector and off-world travel. Establishing an interstellar portal connection is expensive, so most travelers take advantage of the block portal schedule system to lower the cost of their journey.

### Interplanetary Portal

Interplanetary portals are used on Earth as a way for the solar array personnel to go from their accommodations to any of the solar arrays. They are limited destination portals so are set to only go to certain destinations that are located within the same solar system.

### Atmosphere Jump Portals

Atmosphere jump portals are a linked pair, allowing planes to go through a portal on land, to a specific point in/above the atmosphere where the linked portal is located.

They are also used for all of the colony worlds to link the solar array personal's location to their solar array.

## Drop Portals

Drop portals are the Military's most famous technology and the way they travel to unknown stellar systems. Drop portals look like rings of dust. They only last for five seconds and have a limited size and range. A drop portal is generated by a ship and exists simultaneously at the origin and the destination coordinates.

## Communications

Interstellar communications is via portal. There is usually a significant time lag when sending and receiving cross-sector conversations.

## Transit Centers

Portal transit centers, or interchanges, are very busy as any transportation hub / station would be. They typically lock open portals to more common destination at set dates and times to maximise the number of travelers per portal connection. Travelling cross-sector may take hours to days depending on how well block portal schedules synchronise.

A few portals remain available for those with plenty of credits to select their own destinations and for pre-empt portal signals to bounce through.

There are three types of transit portals:

* Local portals, travel within the same continent.
* Special longer distance inter-continental portals (Earth only)
* Off-world and / or cross-sector (Interstellar) portals.

## Orbital Ship Portal Network

Run by the Military. Only a few planets have enough air traffic flying cross-sector to have their own Orbital Ship Network or even one interstellar orbital portal.

Adonis, a major air traffic interchange, has two Orbital Portal transit areas with six interstellar orbital portals each.

## See also

* Wallam-Crane Portal Company
* Wallam-Crane Charitable Foundation
* Communications
* Military Drop Portal
* Portal Intolerance
* Portal Network

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Scavenger Blood (Scavenger Exodus Book 2) (p. 381). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Array 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis Book 3) (p. 173). Wallam-Crane Press. Print Edition)
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Star (Earth Girl series Book 2) (p. 67). Prometheus Books. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Hestia 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis) (p. 221). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Edwards, Janet. Hestia 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis) (p. 124). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
6. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth and Fire: An Earth Girl Novella (EGN Book 1) (p. 2). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
7. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Hera 2781: A Military Short Story . Kindle Edition.

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