Dimensional Travel

Dimensional Travel is experimental technology that was developed shortly before humans arrived in Dimentiara.

Overview

Before the destruction of Terra, humans were just starting to expand their reach out into space. Technology had advanced to the point where commercial sub-orbital flight were commonplace, and space colonies had been established at various points within the asteroid belt. Interstellar travel had not yet been invented, but it was on the very cusp of becoming possible.

The goal of the Dimensional Travel Development Bureau was to develop a quantum computer: a device that could project tunnels through spacetime, allowing for long distance travel to distant planets via intra-dimensional vortexes. A ship could hypothetically enter such a vortex and emerge at the opposite end near-instantaneously, greatly shortening the travel time for long range space voyages. Being still in the prototype stage, the technology still had serious limitations, such as only being able to send objects one way, and needing a projector to keep the vortex open. The Bureau also had concerns about the technology's potential misuse. For example, a nuke could be fired through an intra-dimensional vortex to instantly transport it to its target, circumventing anti-missile defenses.

A possible secondary use for the technology lied in the potential for inter-dimensional travel. However, without some kind of multiversal map, travelling to other dimensions was deemed impractical due to the sheer vastness of the multiverse. The Bureau had used their dimensional scope to peer into countless alternate realities and by sheer chance found only a single alternate version of earth that was habitable before Terra's annihilation.

When inter-dimensional travel was deemed the only solution to humankind's survival, the prototype quantum computer had to be left behind so that it could project the tunnel and allow everybody to travel through the vortex. Data backups that could be used to build another one were later destroyed to prevent the Kiisaktos Empire from getting their hands on it. Dimensional Travel is now lost technology, and quantum physicists in Dimentiara have still been unable to recreate it.