Oblivion Weaver
| Imperial Prototype Quantum Tunnelling Device | |
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| General Information | |
| Type | Quantum tunnelling device |
| Uses | Teleportation |
| Purpose | Unknown |
| Organizational Information | |
| Manufacturer | Tsadenia Shipyards |
| Used By | Imperial Authority |
The Imperial Prototype Quantum Tunnelling Device, also known as the Oblivion Weaver, is an experimental satellite device commissioned by the Imperial Authority of the Empyrium and constructed in secret near the planet Tsadenia. It consists of two primary components - a dark energy funnel that harvests stellar material for energy, and a prototype quantum tunnelling device that has the potential to thread gargantuan amounts of dense energy through other dimensions such as Voidspace (hence the name "oblivion weaver".) In other words, it is a portal device on a massive scale, stretching over 150 kilometres from top to tail.
Inspired by the quantum tunnelling device in place within the Flavros Project superweapon, the Oblivion Weaver permeates energy into Voidspace or similar dimensions to create portals. This means that, unlike conventional voidspace travel, there is no limit for how far one can travel, given that the maximum energy possible under sub-lightspeed conditions (accounting for degeneracy pressure) can only attain a jump of 50,000 light years.
In 516 CE, the Oblivion Weaver was used to transport the crew of the Citrine to the Corundum Galaxy.
Theoretical limit
One of its first documented uses was to transport Isla from the Empyrium system to the Alpha Sol system, some 42,500 light years away. Those who observed noted that opening the portal (and sustaining it for twenty seconds) was not even close to one percent of the devices theoretical maximum capacity. Assuming a degeneracy pressure of 1.8983 kJ per metre, roughly 7.63 x 10^23 J of energy would have been used to transport Isla this distance - roughly 500x less energy than Alpha Sol releases in one second. Its theoretical limit is still unknown, but scientists suggest that with modifications to improve efficiency, the Oblivion Weaver could funnel 5.6 x 10^43 J of energy, 22 orders of magnitude higher than that used during conventional upper-limit voidspace jumps. This theoretical energy yield could open a portal 280 trillion light years away, roughly 3,000 times the width of the observable universe (with respect to the voidspace equation - E = (3.596*10^14)*d^2.)
