Portal
Portals are a foundational element to the parahumans multiverse.
Examples
- Professor Haywires Portal
- Smugglers Portal in White Rock
- Brockton Bay Portal
Details
Succinctly, portals are holes in reality. They appear in controlled and uncontrolled and allow travel across the multiverse lattice; i.e. they let people travel to other worlds.
Creation
- Doormaker
- Professor Haywire
- Combos
- Dimension manipulators
- All-or-nothings
History
Background
With the fall of Eden several portals were opened throughout the multiverse worlds.
Later Cauldron gained access to a parahuman that was able to close most of these.
The hole between realities that Professor Haywire created led Earth Bet to discover Earth Aleph, this almost sparked a war.<ref name="17.3c2">Explanation isn’t in story, but I’ve given it before. Bet’s and Aleph’s residents almost came to war, over fear of what would happen if one earth tried to prey on the other for resources. Bet had more firepower. Major players in Bet (some who’ve been named already) offered concessions, and taking the name ‘bet’ was one of several symbolic measures. - Comment by Wildbow on Migration 17.3</ref> Thankfully several agreements between the govermental entities of the earths prevented this.<ref name="19.7">“There’s sanctions, treaties, truces. If you open this hole to Earth Aleph, it could mean a war between universes.” - Excerpt from Scourge 19.7</ref>
However the Hole was largely restricted to allowing the transmission of data through radio waves.<ref name="17.3c1">Mostly radio waves, but there’s also an exchange of media and regular transmissions of news and data (mainly but not wholly) for research which is how Alec was able to get his hands on DvDs from the other world. Comment by Wildbow on Migration 17.3</ref> The hole itself has filled in with concrete creating guarded facilities that stopped anyone from going in or out. The only concession was communication devices feed through the concrete which allowed the exchange of knowledge.<ref name="R71">Only information can get through because they set it up that way - massive facilities and a lot of concrete on either side, only cables feeding through, and no apparent way for people to get from one side to the other. - Post by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>Besides research, media was one of the few things that could be traded back and forth through the hole - leading to the trade of books, movies and DVDs of TV shows.<ref name="3.4">Having tired ourselves out, we’d all collapsed on the couches and watched some of Alec’s movies from Earth-Aleph, the alternate Earth that our Earth had been communicating with since Professor Haywire tore a hole between realities. Media was one of the few things that could be traded back and forth through the hole. Long story short, you could get books, movies and DVDs of TV shows from the other world, if you were willing to accept the price tag. The benefit? I got to spend the afternoon seeing how the other universe had handled episodes one and two of the Star Wars films.
Fact: they were still pretty disappointing. - Excerpt from Agitation 3.4</ref>
A portal created by some Smuglers caused a heap of trouble.
In December 2009,<ref name="17.1e1">"We have family over. Your Uncle Felix came all the way from California. I think they might want to spend some time with you this Christmas.”. - Excerpt from Migration 17.1</ref> the Endbringer known as The Simurgh accessed a vault containing Professor Haywire's technology using it to create a functional large-scale version of his inter-dimensional door. The Simurgh used this technology to create two gateways - one between Earth-Aleph and Earth-Bet and one between a part of Cauldron's research facility and Earth-Bet. The portal dumped the buildings, soil, plant life and the residents from both locations into Madison, Wisconsin.<ref name="17.6e1"/>
Story Start
The single portal had become a fact of life for both universes.
Post-Echidna
A new way to create portals was discovered.
Timeskip
The Simurgh accessed Earth Shin and brought several of the Capes there into Paris during the endbringer attack there. to fight the assembled Capes who were intent on fighting the Endbringer.<ref name="25.6">Paris, December 19th, 2012 // Simurgh
Notes: Victory by Scion.
Target/Consequence: see file The Woman in Blue. See file United Capes. - Excerpt from Scarab 25.6</ref>
This may have been thanks to the technologies Professor Haywire.
Post-Timeskip
Two years after the fight with Khonsu portals existed throughout the world.
Gold Morning
Khepri used Doormaker to make thousands upon thousands of portals during the fight with Scion.
Post-Gold Morning
The City regularly opened portals to uninhabited worlds in order to extract resources from them.
Ward
Post-Fallen fall
The Portals in the megalopolis were attacked by various groups. They used tinker devices to expand them outwards, trapping many people in alternate worlds and cutting parts of the city off from each other.
Post-Goddess' Takeover
The parahuman prison had its portals cut off.
References
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