Portal network initiations [Open]

[curiousredsoul]

Celena had been moving at a near non-stop pace for the last few weeks, when the shore leave had rocked around she had increased the pace again, dividing some of her time away from the reconstruction to collect a significant amount of supplies from the planet below as well as to monitor the situation with the potential rebellion.

Now however she was focused on the opportunity that she had been waiting for, the initiation of the Gateway network that would aid with transportation throughout the ship. At that current moment she looked over each of the ten gates that would form the initial network, checking over each gateway device in turn. Each device looking near identical to her initial Gateway pair, the smooth grey base plates inlaid with the crystals that would power them. The gate crystals of each spinning idly in a tight vertical circle above an indentation in the base plate below. To the right of each a holographic display panel projected from a raised pillar off to the side of the base showed the status of each of gate in question, and once connected would allow crew members to select the gate to which they wished to travel.

With checks underway she waited for others to show up and to wait for Rhiow, ready to assist with the construction of the Catenary should she be required.

(OOC: Feel free to come and have your character help out, or even watch or chat with Celena)

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[monster_san]

When Fuu read Celena's announcement on the omnicomm, she decided that it was just the sort of thing she would like to see. Thoughts of rebellion, Cephiro, and muddled purpose had been heavy on her mind lately; it would be nice to indulge pure curiosity and technical discussion.

She waved when she spotted the red dragon, looking over the Gateway devices with keen interest. The setup looked mostly like one would expect from a transporter gate, but the crystals gave it a magical sort of appearance. "Hello, Vantari-san! My goodness, this looks very sophisticated."

[curiousredsoul]

Celena at that point in time had been looking over one of the gates in particular and over its display interface, checking power levels and crystal tuning so that when the time came there would hopefully be little problem in connecting them.

Looking up though as Fuu approached she lifted a wing in a returned wave of sorts, "Greetings, indeed, the gateway network all ready to be connected," she replied as she cast a glance over all the gates present.

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[on_errantry]

"Hunt's Luck," Rhiow said cheerfully, trotting in with her tail high. It was difficult to hide how excited this project made her - finally, her area of expertise from home was going to come in handy. "I didn't expect Stacy to drop back into realspace so soon - seems like we're getting missions and shore leave more often than we used to."

She sniffed at the gateways, circling around them and examining the hyperstring structure - visible to Rhiow's eyes as a feline wizard, but difficult to perceive for anyone else. She had a spell tucked away in the corner of her mind to solve that particular problem.

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[curiousredsoul]

"Rhiow, greetings," Celena replied cheerfully in turn as she turned her head to look to her partner in the endeavor of allowing the network to operate within the bleed, "Indeed, I have fortunately completed all the gates here, and with the chance to procure a considerable amount of supply in order to construct more when needed,"

She watched the feline wizard with interest as she sniffed about the gates knowing that she was observing the greater detail invisible to what others could observe.

[on_errantry]

"So this is it," Rhiow said. Now that they were in realspace and the hyperstrings were behaving themselves as Rhiow had always observed them, she could see the potential. Even without being connected and activated, the strings from the crystal structures of each gate reached out as if they were 'seeking' a pair.

Which probably meant that before this was over, Rhiow would have to correct a few that had paired off and didn't want to be braided into the wider network. "Brilliant work. On my world Gates are a naturally occurring phenomenon - to my knowledge nobody's ever created a synthetic substitute before."

[curiousredsoul]

"One that will hopefully last long enough for us to properly complete the linking and to test the connections," Celena commented with a dip of her head and a soft chuckle, seeming rather confident that they could get it done.

"Thank you, it did take a considerable time to develop and construct the initial pair, the basis though is derived from similar gates that my own people make use of," She explained with a nod as she peered between each of the gates both with true sight to observe the waiting energies of each gate.

"Whenever you're ready, we can get to work,"

[on_errantry]

"I brought something that will help with that - I've been thinking over the problem of visibility, specifically that submatter is usually only visible to feline wizards."

She reached down into her claudication, a pocket of space just to left of reality. To Celena, her foreleg would disappear into nothing and then come out with a bundle of shining gold. Rhiow tugged at it with her paws and teeth, spreading it out across the open space in the middle of the gates. When she was finished laying it out, the diagram looked something like a figure eight with one circle inscribed in the center and another circle bounding the whole thing in. "It's been a while since I've worked with you in a spell, so I'll need you to check over your Name. Even though you don't really know Speech, it should instinctively feel right, or feel like you." She pointed her tail at the top section of the figure-eight, at the long trail of Speech characters there.

"This spell will let you see and manipulate the strings the way I see them. For now it's temporary, but I'm going to work on embedding a permanent version here."

[curiousredsoul]

Celena tilted her head with interest as Rhiow spoke of the spell she wished to work. Watching with curiosity in particular as she pulled out what appeared to be a bundle of gold, examining it as it was laid out before her.

"Indeed, I gather your spells must be quite precise in the naming of objects and people?" she asked as she looked over the characters in question the name in question feeling somehow right despite not being able to read it properly, dipping her head, "Interesting, but it does indeed,"

"That would be quite useful indeed, though my own true sight allows me to observe and better manipulate the flows of energy in the world it does not allow me to see the strings as you do in this particular matter,"

[wizardsaregodtier]

Aibghalien had never before dealt with anyone whose pace and dedication came anywhere near his own; now that he had, he began to understand the viewpoints of humans somewhat more. After all, if he were one, he might have been downright annoyed at the pace Celena had set.

Luckily for them both, he was elven, immortal and ageless, and so a few days or even a couple of weeks of his partner devoting her attention elsewhere weren't enough to bother him. But it was an interesting state of affairs, which brought an interesting perspective.

He dropped out of the sky, draconically, to land nearby, but spared only a moment of time for a fond touch of his head against hers before he assumed his natural form once again. He needed his full magical faculties at his fingertips for this experiment.

"So much external support," he mused. "I have yet to accustom myself to that aspect of technology, even now."

[curiousredsoul]

Celena was not one to take things slow when it came to a project, working away long hours between it and other projects, such had been the case recently. Though as the familiar sound of wings reached her ears she took her gaze away from the gate she had been checking.

Her smile brightened only greater when she returned that found touch of her head back against his own, though their projects at times took up much of their individual times Celena always enjoyed the moments they could take that much more.

Celena chuckled at his comment, "Indeed, it does allow for greater understanding and ease of use though, especially for those who have little understanding of the inner workings of the devices,"

[wizardsaregodtier]

In many ways he liked having a similarly intense worker-slash-researcher for a lover; she understood his own bursts of such and allowed for them in a way a more relaxed person wouldn't. He had no complaints.

"The advantage of technology is interoperability," he said. "I don't think I have three total people in the Magic Department who have compatible methods of casting, so I freely admit you have the advantage of me here."

[curiousredsoul]

It was something that they very much had in common in that regard, something that they shared a mutual understanding for such times when projects and developments devoured attention. Indeed, his intense interest in his studies were an aspect that had drawn her to him.

"Very much so, to be able to allow even the most inexperienced operator to utilize without too much difficulty is a particularly useful aspect to technology and yet some devices can be as complex and intricate as the workings of magic," she replied with obvious interest in the subject, "The variety of magic and its manipulation on board does give us many different possible approaches however to a solution,"

[wizardsaregodtier]

"Your approach is superior to mine in this case." Celena was absolutely the only person who would ever earn that statement, without qualification or explanation. "But that being said, do you need me for anything, or shall I simply watch the show?"

[curiousredsoul]

"In this case perhaps," She replied with a chuckle, she knew well that very few others would get such an admission from Aibghalien, "You are welcome to help in any way that you wish, whether watch the controls, watch the energies in any way that your magic allows or perhaps determine what protections you might be able to place upon the gates once they're connected successfully," she listed off cheerfully as she glanced across to him.

[kaya_waterwave]

Whens he saw the message up, she jumped at the chance to see how progress was going. Billy had mentioned that Celena and Ronnae had been working on ways to transport around the ship, but now she had a chance to see it for herself!

Luckily, she had actually been busy cleaning up both the W.I.T.C.H bus and the Outsider's hotel in preparation for their use later, so it wasn't too hard to find Celena.

"How's it looking?"

[curiousredsoul]

Celena smiled across to Kaya when she saw her approach, at that current moment she had been standing in the middle of the ring of devices examining each for irregularities with her true sight. The soft glow visible from her eyes before she let her sight return to normal.

"Everything is ready to go for the initial connections, then will need to test the links but I don't foresee any great issues there," She replied cheerfully, even more so than usual, a project nearly complete did have the dragon somewhat excited after all, despite happenings aboard the ship.

[kaya_waterwave]

"I'm glad to hear it!" Kaya said, looking over the work herself. Sure, she didn't know what half of it all meant, but she could at least imagine the potential behind it. The ability to actually transport across the ship was going to make exchanging information much easier, so long as they were able to do it without the Daligig's interference.

"Who came up with this idea anyway?"

[curiousredsoul]

"The idea for both the paired Gateway device and now the Gateway network were of my own ideas, they were however based originally off similar devices that my own people make use of," Celena cast a gaze out across the gates in question.

"They will, I hope, provide a stable and rapid manner of transport throughout the ship, whether of individuals or the even the transport of supplies,"

[kaya_waterwave]

"I think its a great idea!" Kaya said, smiling. "It would make it much easier for people to get from place to place, and we might even be able to unravel new mysteries about her."

Specifically, she was thinking about a certain ghost phantom who had yet to be found.

"How can I help?"

[curiousredsoul]

"Thank you," Celena dipped her head with a smile, "Quite so, the idea had initially come to me as a way of evacuating those in need on the field of battle and in other situations, from that though I saw that it could be quite useful here as well,"

She pondered a moment, "With a portable gate that could be possible as well, to be able to take it further into unexplored regions while maintaining the ability to return swiftly,"

"If you could watch the three gates there, keep an eye on the readouts for the moment, the power levels of those should rise shortly, let me know if any of them seem to remain unstable,"

[morphitudinous]

"Celena!" Billy was looking somewhat healthier this morning. As it turned out, he'd escaped repodding so far. Everything was backed up and prepared to the best of his ability, so the best he could do was distribute information, work, and wait.

Of those, he was best equipped to work. That brought him here, his usual backpack slung over his shoulder.

"Where can I help?"

[curiousredsoul]

"Billy, good to see you," Celena lifted a wing in greetings as she swung her head around to look to him, relieved to see that he was looking a good deal healthier, she had done her bit with the backing up process as well crystals filled with information only needed to tucked away.

"If you can check the status and monitor the readings of the far gates that would be of great use once the connection is formed, as we'll need to check the connection of each and make sure there are no great abnormalities in power draw,"

[morphitudinous]

Billy flashed her a thumbs up, turning toward the gates. Once he was along the path, he activated the comm ring.

I've got an initial reading at baseline. Everything's normal. When's the connection coming online?

[curiousredsoul]

Celena gave a nod across to Billy, walking past several of the gates before finding the one she was looking for, one that had slightly elevated power readings. A sign that it was one that Rhiow was in the process of connecting to catenary that would provide the stable structure that would allow the gates to link.

With but a thought, without the use of her comm ring Celena replied in turn The connection should come online in a few short moments. There should be a fluctuation then should steady at a higher power rate, that will signify connection to the network.

[morphitudinous]

Got it. Monitoring....now!

Billy watched the screen eagerly, waiting for the telltale signs of connection. He crossed his fingers, hoping for a successful test. This project was too important to fail.