How do the Warp Gates work?

[TFMaster]

I started thinking about this recently but just how fast is traveling via Warp Gate? How does the travel speed compare to other ways to travel long distances very quickly as shown in other Science Fiction media? Ways such as Hyperspace (Star Wars), Warp Speed (Star Trek), Slipspace (Halo), and Ludicrous Speed (Space Balls) just to name a few.

Also how exactly do Warp Gates work? Do they work in a similar manner to the Star Gates from the series of the same name?

Where is Anno when you need her? She could answer these questions no problem.

 

[Evil]

Obviously its space magic.

Or its basically opening wormholes.

As to how Warp Gates work, I look to Event Horizon to explain it.

 

[Ch0w]

Spoiler: answers

 

[Xeivous]

I presume it's the shortcut version of teleportation. Rather than the suicide machines that star trek and stargate use to teleport.

 

[Evil]

We've already seen the Star Trek style transporter mishap in Syri.

 

[Savin]

Warp Gates connect two places in space and let you instantly zip between them. Think Event Horizon but with less mutilation.

The actual Warp transit is actually or nearly instantaneous. The travel time depicted in the game clock is the realspace travel to get from the planet to the gate, wait in traffic, navigate between gates, etc.

 

[TFMaster]

Okay thanks for the responses people I think I'm starting to piece together how Warp Gates work now.

But...

We've already seen the Star Trek style transporter mishap in Syri.

What do you mean Evil? What transporter mishap with Syri?

Edit:

Quote by Savin:
Warp Gates connect two places in space and let you instantly zip between them. Think Event Horizon but with less mutilation.

The actual Warp transit is actually or nearly instantaneous. The travel time depicted in the game clock is the realspace travel to get from the planet to the gate, wait in traffic, navigate between gates, etc.

Thanks Anno!

 

[Evil]

What do you mean Evil? What transporter mishap with Syri?

The incident that gave Syri her dick.

Spoiler: Taken from the wiki

After graduating, Anno spent a short time working for the Akkadi Research and Development Group, the ausar company responsible for the original warp gates, and soon was leading a project to create smaller, shorter-range warp devices based on the same technology. The research turned out to be a complete flop, however, when the Joint Ausar Federation military got ahold of the project and attempted to use an unstable early prototype for counter-terrorism operations. The device backfired, killing most of the team sent through it. A second group was sent through a new prototype against Anno's advice, including her sister Syri Dorna, then a military engineer. The ensuing accident forced Syri's retirement, and Anno quit her job to avoid doing further damage. She was soon picked up by Victor Steele after working the convention circuit for a short time.

 

[Karretch]

... No mention of Stargate? Like, the most iconic wormhole device?

 

[Xeivous]

A suicide wormhole device, as I mentioned above.

 

[Karretch]

A suicide wormhole device, as I mentioned above.

Only read Trek, RIP me. However, since souls exist in SG, via ancient ascencion, it's n ot the same asTrek deatomiazation

 

[EmperorG]

... No mention of Stargate? Like, the most iconic wormhole device?

Thank goodness that the warp gates in TiTs don't function like the ones in Stargate, remember all the funky shit that happens whenever you went through a gate to another gate that happened to be located in such a way as to make you travel through a star to get to it? Time travel, time loops, clones, dimension hopping, and all sorts of shenanigans ensued.

 

[TFMaster]

The incident that gave Syri her dick.

Spoiler: Taken from the wiki

After graduating, Anno spent a short time working for the Akkadi Research and Development Group, the ausar company responsible for the original warp gates, and soon was leading a project to create smaller, shorter-range warp devices based on the same technology. The research turned out to be a complete flop, however, when the Joint Ausar Federation military got ahold of the project and attempted to use an unstable early prototype for counter-terrorism operations. The device backfired, killing most of the team sent through it. A second group was sent through a new prototype against Anno's advice, including her sister Syri Dorna, then a military engineer. The ensuing accident forced Syri's retirement, and Anno quit her job to avoid doing further damage. She was soon picked up by Victor Steele after working the convention circuit for a short time.

If I didn't know any better I'd say that you completely made that up but if that's canon, that's canon.

... No mention of Stargate? Like, the most iconic wormhole device?

I did mention Stargate in my OP though.

Also how exactly do Warp Gates work? Do they work in a similar manner to the Star Gates from the series of the same name?

 

[Evil]

Thank goodness that the warp gates in TiTs don't function like the ones in Stargate, remember all the funky shit that happens whenever you went through a gate to another gate that happened to be located in such a way as to make you travel through a star to get to it? Time travel, time loops, clones, dimension hopping, and all sorts of shenanigans ensued.

But at the same time, without those shenanigans, we'd have no Richard Dean Anderson McGyver jokes! And that would be the real crime against nature here.

 

[magikarpfever]

im surpised NO ONE referenced mass effect
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_relays

 

[Xeivous]

because ME's FTL travel is not very good.

 

[Freed85]

because ME's FTL travel is not very good.

Yeah if I remember right the 3 years between ME2 and ME3 story wise is that the majority of the trip was just getting home, blowing up a solar system(ME2 Arrival DLC), and get thrown in jail for said blowing up a solar system.

 

[Evil]

im surpised NO ONE referenced mass effect
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_relays

Probably because Bioware never really explained how the Mass Relays work, just generally sticking to that old chestnut of "A wizard did it." Which is lazy writing.

 

[Karretch]

ME is basically suped up Alcubierre Drives. You make the space behind you expand, the space in front of you contract, but with the addition of "you weigh less" space magic. It's warp speed but not instant transportation like wormholes or dematerializers.

 

[magikarpfever]

yeah i know bioware never really explained it that well i was just surprised no one brought it up

 

[Karretch]

Oh, it was explained pretty damned well, just that it all hinged on the magical space McGuffin. The key distinction is that it's not teleportation/spatial hopping, it's just conventional travel made really, really fast

 

[Klaptrap]

It's okay if there's no deep or technically correct explanation of how a piece of future space tech works, just so long as its use is internally consistent. Since Syri is the only one who even acknowledges the things, I find myself struggling to care.

 

[ScarletteKnight]

It's okay if there's no deep or technically correct explanation of how a piece of future space tech works, just so long as its use is internally consistent. Since Syri is the only one who even acknowledges the things, I find myself struggling to care.

I mean, they're a part of normal everyday life, like roads, it's not really a hot topic. Syri and Anno were trying to work on them, so they're basically the only ones who bring them up.

 

[Savin]

I mean, they're a part of normal everyday life, like roads, it's not really a hot topic. Syri and Anno were trying to work on them, so they're basically the only ones who bring them up.

Very much this.

Warp Gates are enablers for the story, not a focus of the story itself.