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==Overview== | ==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 flights were commonplace, and space colonies had been established at various points | 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 flights were commonplace, and space colonies had been established at various points around and between the inner planets. 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 create a quantum computer: a device that could project tunnels through spacetime, allowing for long distance travel to distant planets through intra-dimensional vortexes. A ship could hypothetically enter such a vortex and emerge at the opposite end nigh-instantaneously, greatly shortening the travel time for long range space voyages. Being still in the prototype stage, the device had serious limitations, such as only being able to send objects one way, and requiring a projector to keep the vortex open. The Bureau also had concerns about the device's potential misuse. For example, a nuke could be launched through a vortex to instantly teleport it to its target, circumventing anti-missile defenses. | The goal of the Dimensional Travel Development Bureau was to create a quantum computer: a device that could project tunnels through spacetime, allowing for long distance travel to distant planets through intra-dimensional vortexes. A ship could hypothetically enter such a vortex and emerge at the opposite end nigh-instantaneously, greatly shortening the travel time for long range space voyages. Being still in the prototype stage, the device had serious limitations, such as only being able to send objects one way, and requiring a projector to keep the vortex open. The Bureau also had concerns about the device's potential misuse. For example, a nuke could be launched through a vortex to instantly teleport it to its target, circumventing anti-missile defenses. | ||
A possible secondary application for the technology was 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 | A possible secondary application for the technology was 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 the quantum computer's dimensional scope to peer into countless alternate realities and by sheer chance found only a single [[Dimentiara|alternate version of earth that was habitable]] before Terra's annihilation. It could potentially take eons to find another one. | ||
When [[Dimentiara Exodus|inter-dimensional travel was deemed the only solution to humankind's survival]], the prototype quantum computer had to be left behind, in order to continue projecting the tunnel so everybody could 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. | When [[Dimentiara Exodus|inter-dimensional travel was deemed the only solution to humankind's survival]], the prototype quantum computer had to be left behind, in order to continue projecting the tunnel so everybody could 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. | ||
Latest revision as of 22:38, 19 July 2025
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 flights were commonplace, and space colonies had been established at various points around and between the inner planets. 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 create a quantum computer: a device that could project tunnels through spacetime, allowing for long distance travel to distant planets through intra-dimensional vortexes. A ship could hypothetically enter such a vortex and emerge at the opposite end nigh-instantaneously, greatly shortening the travel time for long range space voyages. Being still in the prototype stage, the device had serious limitations, such as only being able to send objects one way, and requiring a projector to keep the vortex open. The Bureau also had concerns about the device's potential misuse. For example, a nuke could be launched through a vortex to instantly teleport it to its target, circumventing anti-missile defenses.
A possible secondary application for the technology was 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 the quantum computer's 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. It could potentially take eons to find another one.
When inter-dimensional travel was deemed the only solution to humankind's survival, the prototype quantum computer had to be left behind, in order to continue projecting the tunnel so everybody could 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.