Allanean Arms Offers Instantaneous Interstellar Travel
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:37 am
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As you know, of course, there are many ways to travel among the galaxies and stars, to reach remote worlds with your cargo and crew. We at Allanean Arms believe, of course, that the one and only truly advantageous way to travel is instantaneous interstellar travel. Many other companies worldwide already provide solutions for this purpose, and we at Allanean Arms would be amiss if we did not ourselves provide our own instantaneous travel solution.
And so here it is: The ITS Mark I Interstellar Gate. A full ten miles [that's 16,000 meters for our more imperial-challenged clients] in internal diameter, the Gate can fit pretty much any ship.
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The Mark I ITSG[/center]
How does it work? Well, the instantaneous travel system itself is, naturally, classified. But what you can know is as follows:
We will plant an ITS gate in orbit of a planet, or other location of your choice. It will be operated by an onboard subsapient AI, linked by quantum-entanglement broadband connection to our central database. When a ship approaches, it will signal the AI, and the AI will enter the coordinates of the gate to which you might want to go. And presto! Instantaneous interstellar travel!
Unlike our competitor ITH system, we allow the passage of armed ships and warships of all types through our gates, provided they can make it through. And frankly, you shouldn't be messing around with warships bigger then 10 miles in diameter, there's no purpose to it. [Yes, Central Facehuggeria, we ARE looking at you.] The client nation can program the AI to block incoming ships from given nations or polities, wit the exception of Allanean Arms vessels.
While using the gates to wage wars is perfectly okay with us, be aware that attacking the gate system in any way will lead to termination of your warranty service and possibly your exclusion from the gate system.
What warranty service? Well, space has its own hazards. Asteroids, micrometeoroids, solar flares, freak anomalies. Allanean Arms technicians will inspect the gate every two years to replace all wear-and-tear damage on your gate. This is a lifetime warranty, by the way.
The gate's power accumulators will run out after about ten years of use. We would prefer you recharge them yourself, but if you do not, Allanean Arms' technicians will do that during their bi-annual inspections.
And how much does this cost? Well, we charge a mere 500 billion dollars for this gate, or 55 billion per year for ten years on the installment plan.
But there's more.
Smaller gates, designed for pedestrian or cargo travel, are available for only $500,000 a pop from our company. For safety reasons it is not possible to use them to get to the coordinates of the orbital gates or vice versa.
Some of those gates have already been installed in various locations, and here's a short and incomplete list:
Orbital Gates:
Earth
Allanean Worlds:
Zarahemla
Neo-Dallas
Egeruo
Mistake
Carmel
Laumer
New Numenor:
Lucas:
Neo-Dallas
Serena.
Stalinvast
New Clondike
Roddenberry
New Nashua
Laura
Beatrice
Libertas [all systems of the Libertas series]
Greenleaf
Elhe Niennah
Constanza
Torvalds
Gates
New Nmweni
Weaver
Giger
Birch
New Maine
Severus
Traileric Worlds:
Octavian's Reach
Strategos
Volantia
Passenger/Cargo Gates:
In Allanean Territory:
An Allanean Passport, visa, or passport of a nation with which Allanea has visa-free travel is necessary to enter Allanean territory from gates outside the United States of Allanea. Sniffer technology will not permit WMD passage.
Liberty-City Space Port, Earth
University of Concord, Liberty-City, Earth
Gene Roddenbery Space Station, Earth Orbit
Neo-Dallas, Neo-Dallas
Sqeeerk'nak, Egeruo
As you know, of course, there are many ways to travel among the galaxies and stars, to reach remote worlds with your cargo and crew. We at Allanean Arms believe, of course, that the one and only truly advantageous way to travel is instantaneous interstellar travel. Many other companies worldwide already provide solutions for this purpose, and we at Allanean Arms would be amiss if we did not ourselves provide our own instantaneous travel solution.
And so here it is: The ITS Mark I Interstellar Gate. A full ten miles [that's 16,000 meters for our more imperial-challenged clients] in internal diameter, the Gate can fit pretty much any ship.
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The Mark I ITSG[/center]
How does it work? Well, the instantaneous travel system itself is, naturally, classified. But what you can know is as follows:
We will plant an ITS gate in orbit of a planet, or other location of your choice. It will be operated by an onboard subsapient AI, linked by quantum-entanglement broadband connection to our central database. When a ship approaches, it will signal the AI, and the AI will enter the coordinates of the gate to which you might want to go. And presto! Instantaneous interstellar travel!
Unlike our competitor ITH system, we allow the passage of armed ships and warships of all types through our gates, provided they can make it through. And frankly, you shouldn't be messing around with warships bigger then 10 miles in diameter, there's no purpose to it. [Yes, Central Facehuggeria, we ARE looking at you.] The client nation can program the AI to block incoming ships from given nations or polities, wit the exception of Allanean Arms vessels.
While using the gates to wage wars is perfectly okay with us, be aware that attacking the gate system in any way will lead to termination of your warranty service and possibly your exclusion from the gate system.
What warranty service? Well, space has its own hazards. Asteroids, micrometeoroids, solar flares, freak anomalies. Allanean Arms technicians will inspect the gate every two years to replace all wear-and-tear damage on your gate. This is a lifetime warranty, by the way.
The gate's power accumulators will run out after about ten years of use. We would prefer you recharge them yourself, but if you do not, Allanean Arms' technicians will do that during their bi-annual inspections.
And how much does this cost? Well, we charge a mere 500 billion dollars for this gate, or 55 billion per year for ten years on the installment plan.
But there's more.
Smaller gates, designed for pedestrian or cargo travel, are available for only $500,000 a pop from our company. For safety reasons it is not possible to use them to get to the coordinates of the orbital gates or vice versa.
Some of those gates have already been installed in various locations, and here's a short and incomplete list:
Orbital Gates:
Earth
Allanean Worlds:
Zarahemla
Neo-Dallas
Egeruo
Mistake
Carmel
Laumer
New Numenor:
Lucas:
Neo-Dallas
Serena.
Stalinvast
New Clondike
Roddenberry
New Nashua
Laura
Beatrice
Libertas [all systems of the Libertas series]
Greenleaf
Elhe Niennah
Constanza
Torvalds
Gates
New Nmweni
Weaver
Giger
Birch
New Maine
Severus
Traileric Worlds:
Octavian's Reach
Strategos
Volantia
Passenger/Cargo Gates:
In Allanean Territory:
An Allanean Passport, visa, or passport of a nation with which Allanea has visa-free travel is necessary to enter Allanean territory from gates outside the United States of Allanea. Sniffer technology will not permit WMD passage.
Liberty-City Space Port, Earth
University of Concord, Liberty-City, Earth
Gene Roddenbery Space Station, Earth Orbit
Neo-Dallas, Neo-Dallas
Sqeeerk'nak, Egeruo