Closed! Dull concept, so re-launching!
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ePyrk Orbit, aPhilos System, The Western Expanse...
"Well, there she is," Admiral Kofe took a sip of his tea, gazing over the top of the rim to the distant station that was just drifting into place. "The last module. Time to fire it up and get things moving."
The new station was not actually a station but rather a circle of them; The old Aurora-Class Transit Gate had been a single titanic circle that was capable of creating and sustaining an artificial wormhole that linked one gate to another. There weren't very many of them because their size and complexity made them very expensive, both for construction and for maintenance. Upgrading them was an even greater expense and so it was that only the Core Worlds had one and ePyrk was not a Core World. All of that was changing now with the introduction and deployment of the Aurora-II. Instead of a single station, these gates would be built up from a series of modules that could benefit from mass production, thus lower maintenance costs, thus lower initial costs, and on down the line until a Major World like ePyrk was a reasonable candidate. Depending on the economy of the world in question, they might only need six of the modules in order to accommodate the traffic and this made the baseline cost much, much lower.
With the last module in place, lights began to flicker on around the outside and inside edges. There were electronic monitoring and control systems, of course, but not every ship had access to them and of course there were emergencies. One by one the stations switched their external indicators from red to yellow to green and then there it was - a spiraling wormhole that quickly evened out to a flat plane that showed nothing but the stars of a distant world on the other side. There was even a ship already waiting; An unmanned cargo hauler, it was a titanic conglomeration of cargo pods attached to a central stalk and pushed forward by a cheap-and-efficient drive that would just suffice to get it from one orbit to another.
"All systems check out?" The Admiral called over his shoulder. This wasn't even a test. The system was so well-know that it might have been referred to as turn-key during an earlier era. "Then off she goes..."
The cheap-and-efficient engines lit up and the cargo ship pushed forward until her nose was just about to breach the event horizon and then she was gone. Any moment she'd appear in the looking glass and it would be time for the next ship to make its way through the pipeline of interstellar commerce. Except she didn't.
"Huh."