Hyperia or Just Plain Hype? Some call it the most startling advance in Gate technology since the Ancients left us Akeron. Others say it's a bunch of hooey that defies everything we know about the natural world and may lead to the apocalypse.Right or wrong, in an exclusive interview with Net-7 News, Terran explorer Loric announced GETCo and Sabine backing for a new Gate in the Lagarto sector of Gallina. A former InfinitiCorp employee, Loric admitted his plans for the gate include intergalactic travel over distances barely imagined by the Terran mega-corporation.
"DeWinter spends big but she thinks small," Loric explained. "And she thinks the Ancients were the only ones who understood transportation. Hogwash. If what you want is a portal to the New World, my Hyperia Gate will get you there in style."
Still in search of the magic ingredient that will push his theory into reality, Loric claims the new gate will exploit a phenomenon that has eluded InfinitiCorp researchers for decades. Speaking rapidly, he described the process as a type of special polarization of information through a periodic lattice.
"All I need is a crystal," Loric declared. "One that which when when properly treated, say given the appropriate horizontal polarization, will allow a corresponding 'collapse' into a
complementary state of vertical polarization."
In other words, once Loric finds the right rock, the Hyperia Gate will exploit entangled information of some A at the exact time of arrival as a second wave of information B.
"Then," Loric went on, "through a polarization state the ensuing information will be sent on intact to something else called C."
Huh?
Despite a heady theory and the explorer's indominitable confidence, the Hyperia plan has its critics -- most notably among the Mordana of Capella who see the new faction as a dangerous provocation of forces unknown.
"This Terran is obviously suffering from a general sense of unreality," warned Mordana historian Ashono Malhause, a Mordane scholar and the author of the Mordana classic: A Concise and Ubiquitous History of Arrogance. Malhouse went on as follows:
"Even the smallest child of the sect recognizes a search for the Gate as a precept of the Ancients. Does one presume one can accost history and escape the concurrent reckoning? Hardly. Humans are not meant to know such things. No wonder the galaxy is crawling with aliens."
But attacks like these only strengthen Loric's resolve. Calling the Mordana a bunch of "mordanite mongers," the explorer said plans for Hyperia will proceed full speed ahead.
