What is the real story behind Loric's new gate? The technology that he is basing it on is completely different from the standard InfinitiCorp gate. It is pretty much common knowledge that the InfinitiCorp gates rely on well understood Bell EPR technology, using (among other things) quanta silk and certain birefringent crystals.In direct contravention to this technology, Loric's design appears to make extensive use of Dark Matter. Pilots have reported being asked by Loric to simply gather Dark Matter from Ardus (currently the only known source), and then later to build a Dark Matter Reticulum. What does he know, that Spetsky and the InfinitiCorp team don't?
Is his gate intended to work on a similar principle to the Progen Ensis Bore? Dark matter technology has produced some extremely powerful weapons. The history of the Ensis bore, as recounted by Calliope Gans, notes that the technology is based on a weapon that was used to destroy almost all of Earth's cities. Controlled use of that same power simply punches a hole through space, allowing access to the maelstroms.
Or is his gate to meet the same fate as the abortive attempts by GETCo / Tada-O to enter the gate technology race? Are we fated to have another hole to an unknown part of the galaxy that allows hostile aliens access to our region of space?
Only time will tell.
