Gate Alignment | Official Lore Short | The Sojourn
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Even the slightest misalignment between two drift gates can spell disaster. Learn about the complicated and vital process of gate alignment in our latest lore short.
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The second I heard ammunition ship I knew exactly what was about to happen.
I assume gate transit is like airplane travel thousands of safe voyages every day but when something goes wrong it’s front page news
I was checking to see if someone made this comment. As soon as I heard "ammunition ship" I was like "welp there's Chekhov's gun"
"Regulations are written in blood"
Working as a gate controller seems like a very chill job. You're just on a drift gate in the control room sipping coffee while waiting for a courier to arrive with new data
Until that coffee spills
@@WolfeSaber9933 It's joever if that happens
@@AgreeableSmile I would come back with a beverage joke, but I don't have one
Until someone tries to take control of the gate
@@nathanielpratt7413that would be a black day, like my coffee
yeah, great concept, in some ways a miniscule missalignment is worse than a large one, it's better to end up in interplanetary space, than ram the recieving gate at relativistic speed
Or end up in the classic “fly right through a star or bounce too close to a super nova” type situation
So this is the Sojourn equivalent of ‘Big boat got stuck’?
Or the Halifax Explosion of 1917.
Big boat got stuck would be where a very large ship crashed into the Gate without proper guidance. Though I can't think of how to get a ship in the Sojourn to get stuck in the Gate and not get launched.
@@WolfeSaber9933 I wonder what would actually happen. You might (I stress, *MIGHT*) actually be able to use the gate itself to clear the jam, like a giant gravitic plunger. Get everyone off the jammed ship, rotate the gate slightly out of alignment, then just crank the catapults up to eleven until gravitic stresses push the ship free or tear it apart. Then conduct realignment protocol before reopening the lane.
If you know the chaos that air traffic controllers deal with daily, you can imagine the added chaos of not just three dimensional travel, but also relative *and relativistic* velocities and time delay. Your playing hexa-dimensional chess just trying to keep things running smoothly so that no one sees how ragged everyone behind the scenes is getting. There is a reason that ATC is not a lifetime career
I always wondered how they managed to keep these things lined up with the chaos of the universe happening around them
Assuming that the gates move in their orbits, this means you’d have to account for when solar bodies eclipse the gates. I imagine this would be a problem and would temporarily remove the gate from service, and in a similar vein, you’d have to account for changing distances between two gates as they move through their orbits, so gate alignment might be even more complex.
I imagine that’s compensated for in the alinement process, something we have to remember is the map we see is a 2d version and the stars on not on the same axis.
@@BlandSpagetti yeah but they are still orbiting the star, no matter if they wind up above, below, to the left or right, so having stars eclipse the gates is pretty much unavoidable
@@thenightlyguy7621 i asked the same question a year or so ago. That exlipse problem would be exacerbated with gates inside of a system. Didn't get an answer yet but really hope we get an explanation
Isn't there a Nadir? Point somewhere near either of the stars poles?
@@thenightlyguy7621 Not necessarily. Even assuming the target system's ecliptic is edge-on to the origin system - which most won't be - you could still place the gate in a slightly oblique orbit relative to the origin so there's never actually an eclipse. Even the planets of a star system will have slightly varying orbital planes relative to each other (for an extreme example, consider Pluto).
The ammo ship story is pretty grim but I couldn’t help but chuckle despite myself. “Oh no! The bridge collapsed and there’s Old Man Jenkins in his truck full of dynamite and fireworks heading right for it!”
I just love all these supplemental videos for the Sojourn audio drama. I actually built a similar system in Space Engineers.
Milli-arc seconds; amiright?!
Good lord. How was the gate not completely destroyed? It got rammed by an explosive carrier at relativistic speeds! Now I realize just how disastrous failed gate transits can be, I really understand the respect the world seems to have for keeping Drift Gates operational and safe (I had previously wondered, especially in the Wanderer Incident, why anti-Assembly elements didn't simply misalign gates as acts of protest).
Such a good lore video, as usual. Keep it up, Sojourn team!
They're gigantic ringy-thingies miles across. Even a catastrophic explosion on one side would probably still leave most of it mostly intact.
@@Sirithil Debris moving at absurd speeds from the impact site, plus the shockwave through the structure, ought to destroy the thing with that sort of detonation.
Well, whatever happened, KDFY was able to repair it. Maybe it did shatter and they recovered all the big pieces?
@@Sirithil My headcanon was that they simply caught the pieces, melted down the Drift, reactivated their old Gateforge, and built a new gate.
This is an interesting take on the Mass Relay network. Since it human made tech made from scratch it doesn't have the billions of years of development the Mass Relay Network does, with its quantum entanglement, onboard super computers, and quantum lock to a position. Drifting, small impacts, how a single 1/10th of a degree can escalate on astronomical units.
Fun fact: Méiguì 玫瑰 means “Rose”, and it’s pronounced “may-gway”.
Excited for the next series!
Is the light made by a ship leaving a gate caused by blue shifting as they leave a system? Is there a red flash or glow at the other end as they slow down?
I can't imagine what Centrum must have felt loosing access to its largest shipyards for an entire year.
So dumb question: Was there no way to more-directly prevent the ammo tender from launching? Like, say, cutting the power to the gate (unless they’re always “on” by design?) or sending a small maintenance ship to block its path while furiously flashing Morse code?
Is there going to be a primer for TTRPG's with this world?
When Oops is Not an Oops!
I love the gate lore so much. Yummy
Sounds a lot like trying to play catch on fast moving trains going in different directions. If each gate is also orbiting their respective Lagrange points, that would be like doing all that while riding a unicycle in circles
Excellent lore video as always
Is the Sojourn a ongoing series in production or is it a finished story that one can just download from one the vendors and listen to it and be done with it?
Nyoom
NYOOM!
"Ammunition Ship"
You said "Chekhov's Gun" wrong.
Loveit.
You know, there is a acceptable cone. A non-acceptabble cone for human transit and disaster no-matter what. Miliarc-seconds makes it sound very shallow, but it must still exist or alighnment would be much harder and over light years it would be significant. If you know that track the other gate is going to take, you can use that to reduce the number of times you re-align a gate as you align things so that the other gate starts at one side of the cone and drifts towards the other. Which sounds like something someone did before something bad happened.
I'm going nowhere with that, it just seems reasonable.
If anything a large misalignment is much less dangerous than a small one. The gates look like they're miles across, but when you're throwing ships light-years... three millionths of a mliliarc-second will do it. Two millionths and ships arrive safely but off-center. And four millionths and ships miss the other gate entirely, arriving safely but out of position. There's a very, very tiny range where a catastrophic shot like this is possible.
Sounds like TCIP but the "packets" are ships.
Are gates active at all times? or only activated when a transit is scheduled?
Second thought: if the Gate controller knew the dangers of misalignment (which he must have considering he suspended all flights), why didn't he try to physically stop the Tawny Yvette? If the gate had weapons systems, he could have fired on it with warning shots to tell it to change course, and if it didn't, he could still have had the Meigui block the Yvette's route (they ought to realize something was up then) or, worst comes to worst, he could have sent a courier through with a warning and deliberately shoved the gate far out of alignment (it must have correctional thrusters for normal alignments).
They may not have realized the actual extent of the danger. The odds of the gate having been misaligned *exactly enough* for the Tawny Yvette to be yeeted directly into the superstructure of the other gate are astronomically small, the gate crew probably figured it'd effectively be like a single-gate transit - like those used as part of the alignment protocol itself - and the ship would just be out of position and have to do its own deceleration burn to compensate for proper motion.
@@Sirithil That may be the case, but were I in there position I would try to misalign the Gate a little more than a few micrometers to ENSURE that the ship didn't come dangerously close to the other gate.
@@sylquinn4075 Not actually a bad idea. I'd suspect as well that they'd have instituted a policy where if your comms are down you can't transit at all. The accident could have been prevented entirely if the Tawny Yvette heard the stop order from gate control.
unrealistic, theres no way centrum or keepers dance would stop commerce because of minor issues like “the safety of everybody involved” and “morality”
They might do it on the basis of a slightly less minor issue like 'having to rebuild the entire gate' and 'losing access to their biggest shipyard for a year', though.
Were the crew lost for a year?
A munitions ship colliding with the gate at relativistic speeds wouldn’t have left even a hint of human to be lost.
Sounds incredible bordering on magic that they could shoot a ship an interstellar distance like this, and hit inside the gate with enough safety margins. From a world building view it would make more sense that they would leave deacceleration for ships themselves. Drift drives seem to be quite capable.
Fun idea: send a scout to enemy system that collects enough orbital data from an enemy installation. Lets say a shipyard. Then the spy craft jumps back to you using local gate. Then you use your gate to shoot a couple million tungsten blobs at that shipyard. No need to deaccelerate. Even couple hits with bullets travelling ftll speeds would be a major ouchie. The gate alingment data would clearly be more up to date, there would be some light delay from the shipyard position to the gate in same system, but if you can hit the middle of a gate that cooperates, why would you not hit a station if you have couple million bullets to try?
Seems like the lore here has built an cannon with interstellar ranges. Why is the tech not used like that?
I believe weaponization of Drift gates is a very terrifying line that most people wouldn't cross, even in their nightmares. That makes the one time it was attempted within Tantalus (to my knowledge) one of the most horrifying and most high-stakes encounters of the war (technically a bit after the war, I think). There's an entire lore video about that battle somewhere, but the long and short of it is that some very unhappy Frontier folks got angry enough after losing to try to use a Drift gate to send an RKKV at Centrum itself. So, TL;DR: Drift gates are basically never weaponized at least in part because it's about as abhorrent an idea as gassing prisoners of war is in real life. A war crime at best and on the wrong side of a line that should never be crossed. Even that one time was by people with nothing left except a lot of hatred and resentment. Either way, Drift gates HAVE been used exactly once with the intention to throw RKKVs once to Death Star a planet, but from what I understand, pretty much all people with a soul agree that it's horrible to weaponize Drift-based relativistic weapons.
On the other hand though, seeing as all it would take for Drift gates to become weapons might be for people to stop viewing the practice that way, I believe any spaceborne assets, even space stations, would understand their position has been revealed after they spot the scouts and do a little tiny bit of moving. Just a little bit... but that's enough, because of how vast and empty space is. Space Stations CAN be moved, after all, just not as quickly as ships. At the very least they can be evacuated. Drift gate bombardment is still undoubtedly stupendously effective against targets that cannot run, like planetside installations or, most famously, planets themselves. Scouts also won't have that fun of a time getting in and out unnoticed, since there are only so many Drift gates you have to watch. Even if they don't enter through a Drift gate, they probably have to leave through one if they want any chance of making it back with up-to-date news, so keep your eyes on all the Drift gates and you might just be able to see scouts before they can report back.
For the same reasons real world military’s have nuclear arsenals but go to great lengths not to use them. In universe they have numerous treaties, laws and built in technical safeguards to stop Drift gates from being weaponised. And given that the Frontier War (their equivalent of a recently ended WW2) ended with a failed attempt at destroying a planet using this technique that was only just prevented by a massive battle that killed thousands, no one in universe wants to try it.
@@ananonymousnerd.2179 Hmm... maybe different factions would have the tech as a nuclear weapon equivalent. Having it matters even if you never want to use it.
Well, Drift Gates seem partly inspired by the Mass Relays.
@@Anthallas Exactly, let's say you're the Frontier Union and you try this - probably Centrum wouldn't do it first because they're winning, they don't need to. You've crossed a huge line now, you're now an existential threat rather than just some uppity rebels, so now Centrum just points its gates at your planets and deletes you the same way. It's a lot like MAD deterrence with nukes, with the additional incentive that playing nice with gates is the only way modern civilization can function at all.
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