Portal Network

## Description

In charge of the portal network, adding new portals and aligning them, deleting aged out portals, etc.

## Appearances

### Shorts:

* *Deltan Escape*
* *Earth Prime*

## History

In the early 23rd century Thaddeus Alexander Wallam-Crane discovered how to create Portal technology. His son had recognized the significance of his father's discovery and as a result bought out the company that Thaddeus 'Alexander worked for, creating the Wallam-Crane Portal Company in 2206. From the beginning, the Wallam-Crame Company retained control of all portals and the network that controlled them.

In the 24th century, when the way to build new portals and parts were lost due to the large number of people leaving Earth during Exodus Century the network began to break down. In the Early 25th century, Thaddeus Paul reinvent portal technology, using simpler parts that could be build with the resources that were available. These new interstellar portals were of a much shorter stellar range and the portal network became a makeshift decentralized system.

The Wallam-Crane Portal Company became the Wallam-Crane Charitable Foundation and no longer had control over either the manufacturing of Portals or running them via the Portal network, other then funding research into improving Portal technology.

Early in the 26th century and as a result of discovering the Chimera on Thetis, the portal network was handed to the Wallam-Crane Charitable Foundation to straighten out and instructed to add Bio-filters to all portals. The foundation was able to rapidly instigate a modified version of the original network and connect all of the portals, but it took a few decades before they were able to create all-purpose bio filters.

## Portal Network

Run by the civilian Portal Network Administration, the portal network connects all non-orbital portals. The Portal Network security wear brown uniforms.

The Orbital Ship Portal Network are controlled by the Military. The Military does have a separate network for their passenger and freight portals, too. The military's drop portals do not utilize a network as they only exist for 5 seconds.

### Automated Intercontinental Passenger Traffic Handling

Also known as AIPTH. When traveling to another continent on the same planet, AIPTH randomly selects the Transit destination.

### Pre-empts

A pre-empt is a high priority portal journey that can connect any origin portal to any destination portal. A person using a pre-empt can travel anywhere without needing to plan a route through the portal network as once the pre-empt and destination codes are entered, the network grabs all of the necessary portals and lock them out from other travelers, until the sending portal disconnects.

Pre-empts are used for medical emergencies, Immune Syndrome babies on their way to Earth, and a variety of Military circumstances. Not for any civilian non-emergency reasons.

Traveling on a pre-empt across multiple sectors the first time will usually cause a strong reaction of dizziness and / or nausea, similar to the symptoms of Portal Intolerance 4.

### Military Personnel

All members of the military travel for free, including cadets at the Academy.

## Types of Travel

### Group Travel

Organizations that are traveling as a group use separate gathering zones and security checkpoints to avoid disrupting normal operation. They go through the checkpoints early, then remain in a private room until they are ready to enter the interstellar portal area. They are all given a priority escort to their block portal when the group is ready to leave.

### Block Portal

The majority of travelers use block portals when traveling Intercontinental and Interstellar as the cost is shared over everyone going through the portal during that time frame that it is open. A block portal is opened from one location to another for a set period of time. During peak traveling periods such as Year End and Year Day, reservations are needed other wise a traveler can usually join any of the available block portals.

When going through a block portal, the travelers DNA is registered and when the block portal is closed, the overall charge is divided by the number of people that went through the portal to determine the individual costs. After the individual cost is determined each person is billed for their travel, underage children are billed to their parents.

### Individual Travel

An individual can go through an interstellar or intercontinental portal without utilizing the block portals, but there are only a few individual portals available and they are very expensive.

## See also

* Wallam-Crane Charitable Foundation
* Wallam-Crane Portal Company
* Portals
* Exodus Century

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Deltan Escape* (ch. 8)
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 402). Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Hestia 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis Book 2) (2021)
* Array 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis Book 3) (2021)
* Sol 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis Book 4) (2022)
* Deltan Escape (2021)
* Earth Girl (Earth Girl series Book 1) (2012)
* Earth Star (Earth Girl series Book 2) (2014)
* Earth Flight (Earth Girl) (2015)