Subspace gate

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The Balun-Large Magellanic Cloud gate

A subspace gate or Hyperspace Gate, also spelled HyperSpace Gate and known to the Garmillas as geshtam gate, is an Archelian technology that allows fast travel between two points in space. Archelias built a network of subspace gates linking the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds with the Milky Way Galaxy. Following their disappearance, the network was discovered by the Garmillas, and it became essential for space travel within the Greater Garmillan Empire's territory.

The subspace gate network was centered around the rogue planet Balun, located in the intergalactic void halfway between the MIlky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud. The planet was orbited by two gates linking it with the two galaxies, this allowed for Balun to become an important hub for the Great Garmillas Empire's military during the Great Garmillas War.

Technical specifications

Subspace gates are enormous structures comprised of a circular portal section surrounded by an intricate web of spikes, cables, circles, and concentric circumferences. Each gate is slightly different in design and color.

A Czvarke fighter flying through the subspace corridors inside of the gates

Gates are linked together by subspace corridors, a web way of lanes passing through a dimension seemingly in a constant storm. The exit of each gate is represented inside the corridors by a swirling pillar of energy. Passage through subspace corridors, while not instantaneous like warp travel, allows one to skip over much greater distances. While crafts capable of dimensional diving only ventured in the upper levels of subspace, the corridors pass deeper. This means that a slight mistake in trajectory could lead a craft to be crushed by dimensional pressure, this allows vessels to traverse vaster distances in shorter ammounts of time. The subspace corridors divide shallow subspace from the depths.

Each subspace gate has a control satellite powering it, with the power deriving from a neutron star or a condensed white dwarf. The gates at Balun were powered directly by the planet's artificial core, but a similar structure was also present at the planet's core.

History

The subspace gates were built by the Archelias civilization eons before the present. Thousands of years after the disappearance of the Archelians, the gates were discovered by the Garmillas, who turned them into an integral part of their infrastructure, allowing their military to move throughout their expanding territory.

The map of the subspace corridors found on Beemela 4

The Iscandarians also knew of the gates, and by the 20th century, they had sent a starship carrying a wave-motion core with a map of the gates' pathways to the Beemela system, located in the vicinity of one of the gates. By the 2190s, the Greater Garmillan Empire had built a naval base over the Archelian ruins at Balun, and they used the gates orbiting the rogue world to expand their territory in the Milky Way Galaxy. They also had control of the Beemela gate and had established a base on its control satellite. However, the gate was deactivated and abandoned. Garmillas-controlled gates were, even inactive ones, were patrolled by Null VI-type Police Robots.

The gate linking Balun to the Large Magellanic Cloud is destroyed

In May of 2199, the Earthling battleship Yamato found the Iscandarian data regarding the subspace gates on Beemela 4 and used it to reactivate the Beemela gate. They used the gate to reach Balun and carry out a surprise attack against the garmillan fleet stationed there. The attack destroyed Balun's artificial core and overcharged and destroyed the subspace gate that linked the planet with the Large Magellanic Cloud. Months later, in September, Yamato traveled back to Balun, where they hoped to reactivate the gate toward the Milky Way. To ambush them inside the subspace corridor beyond the gate, a Garmillan fleet powered it by carrying another control satellite. The Earthlings were ambushed inside the subspace gate by another Garmillas warship but came out relatively unscathed.

Following the end of the Gatlantis Campaign, the network underwent a period of reconstruction. A subspace gate previously located 30,000 light years from Balun was moved to the edge of the Milky Way in a joint effort between Garmillas and Earth, and was linked directly with the one stationed in the Magellanic Cloud. The reorganized gate network became a pivotal part in the Garmillas Migration Plan.

Following the destruction of planet Garmillas in 2205, the gate linking the Large Magellanic Cloud to the edge of the Milky Way was moved inside of the Galman-Garmillas territory. The Milky Way Galaxy subspace gate was moved inside of the Milky Way, at approximately 20,000 light years from planet Earth, and was renamed to "intergalactic subspace gate."

List of subspace gates

The Magellanic Cloud subspace gate, later Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy subspace gate.

The Milky Way Galaxy subspace gate, later intergalactic subspace gate in 2205.

The Galactic Theater gate.

The subspace gate linking Beemela 4 with Balun.

The subspace gate linking Balun with the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Japanese language information

亜空間ゲートA kūkan gēto