Name: Framed Portals Description: Framed portals are capable of taking on a variety of appearances, from the dark, jagged frames of a Thaniik Gate or the slim, high-tech appearance of an Apex Stargate, they all still exhibit similar characteristics. Framed portals are always framed in some type of material but can vary in size, color, or other effects depending on how it is created or the linked portal; some can be as small as a fist, while some can be large enough to allow even a ship to pass through. They are typically appearing as entries with a glowing border and a transparent glow, with the destination on the other side of the portal able to be seen as if one were there themselves. Top to bottom: A mysterious portal found in a dungeon, several Miniknog Stargates, and a typical portal found in the Undercrypt, framed from the spine of a Bone Dragon. Abilities: Instantaneous teleportation with conversation of momentum and disregard for connectivity; one could have one half of their body through one side and be fine. Much smaller portals are able to be carried. Can be built in great variety with different sizes, shapes, and aesthetic colors and effects. Limitations: Heavy power draw, a little less than tachyonic teleporters, but with constant power draw while active. Portable portals will be very small (unable to transport people or large objects) and require a power source such as a powerful battery. Warping space is hard. Must have a frame. This is not an app for frameless portals. Requires an initial charge to activate, a 'spark'. Typically a super-capacitor is used for this, unless one wanted a portal to open extremely slowly. Meaning, it takes in more power just to activate a portal. Requires two or more portals to work, obviously, and both must be activated. Typically, activating one also activates the other. Range is linear to power input, meaning a portal will not activate at all if it does not have enough energy to link to another portal further away; portals with higher energy input also have higher range. It is impossible to make a portal leading out of the galaxy, as the power input needed to traverse that distance would destroy the portal. Very expensive; Miniknog Stargates are a massive megaconstruction project costing well near a quadrillion USD, and only few exist. In the current GC lore, wormholes are a very valued strategic point that make FTL travel much faster, and it would be more simple and cheaper to control one of those rather than build a Stargate. Your faction will never have a Stargate, though a smaller portal for people is definitely doable. These stargates are also much smaller compared to wormholes. ((Staff discretion on the use of this aspect of the app, for major factions such as the Miniknog. Go wild.)) When portals are turned off and an object is still inside of it, it will cleanly be cut completely in both sides due to the separation. How does it work: The actual workings of portal technology is not well understood, however conforms with the current model of particle physics and gravitic understanding. Framed portals essentially work as 'wormholes', using a framing constructed with a special metamaterial that condenses gravitons to warp space, funneling it into another portal. This process requires a large power draw exponential to the surface area of the portal, from a small hand mirror-sized portal to a large space station Stargate. Portals also require a 'focus' that acts as both a linker and an energy core that distributes power; typically this is constructed of special, energizing material such as Avos crystals, or for Thaniik portals, a prisilite focus that may be installed within the frame, allowing the portal to be 'tuned' to connect to another portal with a pre-established method (frequency, coordinates, etc.) This also means that multiple portals can be linked to one portal, allowing portals to be created to lead to one location; with this method, the appearance of the receiving portal is typically passed onto the created portal. For example, if one were to create a portal linked to Tartarus under Purgatory City, the portal would be of a menacing red color. Portal Networks: Basically, multiple portals can link together as a teleportation network links point teleporters. The separate portals simply link to a main 'hub' of a type of voidspace created together by the linked portals from the spatial warp, sort of like a tunnel with doors and branches. This means that two portals meant to link to one are also linked to each other, with some "doors" (portals) having additional security like a "lock" that monitors who can pass. Flavor text: Portal technology was original created by the Ancients, and remains misunderstood even today in its deepest workings. The first race to adapt the technology by mimicking the Ancient designs were the Remnants, using focuses of prisilite produced from Thaniik alchemical forges to use it as a well-used form of transportation that allowed them to spread across the galaxy. Other races also adapted this technology with different aesthetic styles, whether it be the portal of a Floran shaman, framed in hard, ancient wood or a high-tech stargate station constructed by the Miniknog. Referenced Technologies: Metamaterials Wormholes Supercapacitors Attainability: Open Tags: [Industrial] (On the basis that it has a lot of uses.)
