trans_9 | Of malfunctioning portals, parks and dragons [Open]

Taking some time from other projects, Celena had once more brought down her Paired Gate device down to the park in an attempt to work on a number of issues of the operation of the device while in the Bleed. After all if a stable gate could be established, even for short periods of time, it could make for quick travel about the city and about the ship in general.

Thus in her usual draconic form she had set herself before the primary end of the gate device in the middle of a large clearing in the park, with the secondary portion of the device not a hundred feet away. After some time in pondering the problem she had decided to take a break from her work. Locking the device down she stretched herself out and padded away to wander the park for a short while before taking off to stretch her wings. Keeping her general flight path around the vicinity of the park itself.

[OOC: Feel free to run into her at any point, whether while she's working on the device, wandering the park or even flying around overhead!]

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Celena dipped her head with a smile in thanks at Rhiow's compliment, pondering thoughtfully as Rhiow paced around her device and spoke on the issue.

"Indeed, the odd temporal flux of the Bleed would certainly contribute to the stability and connection issues, even if it was to connect it could connect at a different time entirely, be it before, or after the initial portal is opened," She ponders allowed before thinking on Rhiow's suggestion, "You have a point there, if an open connection between gates was able to be defined as a constant regardless of time the effects of the Bleed could be minimized, though the question is, how to build in such a temporal clause in a space where time is a variable between locations, while allowing for potentially different connections,"

"How does it actually forge the connection with its counterpart? I can't see any catenary connections," Rhiow said. She squinted at the hyperstrings around the device. Several of them looked like they stretched off into the distance somewhere, and the crystals in the device had the hyperstrings coiled tightly around them like an electromagnet. "Something to do with the crystal structure?"

Rhiow was deeply in her element. Gates were her expertise, her specialty as a wizard. Finally, she had a project on board that excited her.

"Indeed, the link is formed primarily through the crystals within the ring of the device, the energy within each crystal is synchronised and linked with the crystal in the opposing side of the device," Celena explained as she motioned to the crystals in the gate then to the secondary half set not far away, with a small flick of a claw she set the ring of crystals spinning slowly to show how the secondary gate replicated the motion perfectly.

"It could be possible to utilize the link to a greater extent while in the bleed, however I've yet to meet much success,"

(OOC:Sorry for the lateness!)

Rhiow's ear flicked a few times, rapidly. Anyone who knew her would know she was deep in thought, otherwise perfectly still with just her ear moving. She focused on the hyperstrings leading away from the device.

Then she reached out mentally to the Whisperer for some specifics on those crystals and how they resonated in subspace. The material was perfect for something like a Gate, it just wouldn't establish a connection here in the Bleed.

"How much power would it take to maintain the connection? Not open constantly, obviously, but I assume they only pair when powered. If they're always paired, just not always active, it would still require some power."

Celena watched on with interest as Rhiow examined the device, using the moment to ponder the questions and ideas Rhiow had raised.

"At the current moment they remain paired to a degree even while inactive, the power required for that link is provided by the crystal power cells in the base of the device, they provide adequate power to maintain the link however do not contain enough power to sustain an open connection, thus the requirement for the external power source," She explained indicating the portions of the device in question each time.

"The current design has the crystals paired constantly to ensure rapid connection, especially for its use in the field,"

"Perhaps that's the problem," Rhiow said. "If the connection is closed in the Bleed, the temporal exceptions might keep it from opening. It would function fine in realspace, of course." Rhiow laid her ears back and began kneading her claws into the ground below her feet. "The Gates I'm used to working with are constantly powered by their central catenary, but the locus itself is offline until we program its destinational matrix. Having a constant power flow to maintain the connection would exclude the temporal... issues."

Temporal issues was Stacy in a nutshell. Rhiow thought she would get used to it, but it still surprised her.

Celena dipped her head thoughtfully once more as Rhiow spoke, "That could well cause the problem at hand, such a power flow between gates could perhaps prove effective to maintain a low level connection while idle, it would require some work to manage such a connection in such space and time without the connection warping," Celena pondered with a nod.

Temporal issues indeed, "It would require something of a centralized power source to be able to maintain each of the gates, or a larger power source with each individual gate,"

(OOC: Sorry again for the delay, Busy last few weeks with Uni)

"Like a catenary," Rhiow agreed. "You see, Gating on my world works like this."

Rhiow reached out to the nearest set of hyperstrings and pulled. A diagram of graceful Speech-characters began to spread out across the ground between her and Celena. It looked like a tree, with several branches stretching away from the central trunk. On the end of each branch was a circular diagram. "These are the gates," she said, pointing out the circles on the end of the branches. "They gain power from the catenary in the center - they're always connected to that. When we open a destination-" here she hooked her claws into a thick braid of gold and pulled it off the trunk. Its ends were anchored to two of the gate-structures in the tree, and as she pulled the strand unraveled from the rest of the tree until it stretched taught between the gates. "-we pull a connection from the catenary to bridge the gap. Do you think something similar might work with your device?"

(OOC: Delay? I'm slower than molasses these days. Sorry!)

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