THE THRESHOLD

Quantum physicist Dr. Hina Tenkai was enamoured with the prospect of travelling to far-off alien planets. As such she dedicated much of her professional career toward the study of faster than light travel. Shortly after receiving funding, Tenkai successfully engineered the world's first collision of an entangled pair of photons. While the resulting explosion utterly annihilated the collision array facility and claimed dozens of lives, Tenkai had achieved her goal; a brief but measurable synthetic perforation in space-time.

Through proceeding experimentation, Tenkai was able to recreate similar results with minimised collateral and prolonged duration. The first images from beyond the Tenkain portal revealed a violet-hued void that seemed to span infinitely. Eventually, her team was able to form stable portals, sustainable long enough to launch manned missions into the super-dimensional space.

Since those early experiments, the demystification of The Threshold has become a whole branch of scientific study unto itself. Tenkai's theory for faster than light travel was realised when her team constructed another collision array inside The Threshold itself, creating an exit portal that opened at a point in space million thousand kilometres away from the originating Tenkai'n portal. Through rigorous mapping and an entirety new mathematical system to reason with the contradicting physics of The Threshold, scientists could calculate where a new portal should be created in the super-dimension, in order to reach a given point in our known universe, thus allowing travel across lightyears of space by only manoeuvring a short distance.

Though almost everything surrounding The Threshold is strictly classified, some rumours have escaped out into the streets. Some claim that various companies have been experimenting with drawing power from The Threshold or that Aspect technologies rely on linking the user's brain to it. Wild ghost stories have sprung up about incomprehensible creatures tearing their way into our world after being disturbed in their home.