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Approaching Transit Gate.
AIC Designation: No Value Found
Local Designation: SF/NSO-274
Alert: Gravimetric Sensors Offline, Local Disturbance
Searching Topic: NSO Gate...
Throughout the galaxy, a vast but regulated network of Transit Gates interconnect every inhabited star system. Often in geostationary orbit with an agricultural or business hub planet, a Transit Gate is usually the first and last stop in a space traveler's visit to a system. However, there are regions of space not meant to be accessed or even known about by the general population. Even in a civilization of near-instantaneous travel, the Transit Web contains large gaps of wild and untamed space, thousands of lightyears across, where criminal organizations, illegal-research teams, and private military contractors seek to perform illicit activities in secrecy. Enter the NSO Gate.
When a typical Transit Gate is decommissioned, either from falling into disrepair or trade embargoes, the superstructure is often auctioned off and dismantled for its valuable materials. Under normal protocol, the hull is stripped of its functional parts by special technicians before changing hands, to protect the intellectual property of the Aglidica Innovation Corporation, the sole manufacturer of the Transit Gate. Of course, where there are middlemen, there are potential fences. A party interested in securing a private and fully-functional Transit Gate will offer a tremendous sum to acquire one. Once having done so, the gate will be recommissioned as an NSO (Near Stellar Object) Gate. A Transit Gate's proximity to a large star offers it several unique characteristics: Primarily, gravitational and magnetic disturbance from a star makes an NSO Gate nearly impossible to detect without knowing its exact coordinates. In addition, a star amplifies a gate's blind-jump capability, making it possible to access deep regions of previously-unexplored space. However, an NSO Gate is a double edged sword; without being near a Transit Gate that reconnects to the main Web, a miscalculated blind-jump can leave a traveler stranded in untamed space with limited resources. While typical Gates have an emergency "rubberband" capability that allows a blind-jumper to instantly return to the originating Gate, this is not possible with an NSO Gate; the volatile flux of its parent star's gravitational field would cause a returning blind-jumper to slam into the fiery sea at faster-than-light speeds. For this reason, illegal bootleg Gates (which can operate freely in uncivilized space) are usually constructed to reconnect to the legitimate Transit Web.
End Topic.
Preparing to Jump.
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Just experimenting with layer masks, vectors, etc.
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Transit Gate:
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