Greetings esteemed colleagues,
During your time in the Facility, you may find yourself needing to venture out for crafting resources, ingredients and items you won’t find just anywhere. In fact, you’ll only find them outwards of anywhere. In this Status Report, we introduce Vignettes!
“We’ve gathered so much data since our first expedition to Anteverse II. It has become clear that there is a large entropy differential between our universe and theirs. This explains why their biota grows so fast here: the available energy is so much higher. It’s like a feeding frenzy.”
Suan Tengku - Report to Keystone, Sept 1991
Through the Portal
A central, if secretive pillar of GATE activity is the study of universes far beyond our own. In pursuit of this research, the GATE Cascade Research Facility has created what may best be described as a ‘massive multi-perforation’, leading to a host of alternate dimensions and strange destinations, both on earth (we think) and worlds beyond.
A Renewable Resource
While immensely diverse, these vignettes all have one thing in common. They experience strange fluctuations in time, a temporal tethering of sorts. While resources in an office – especially a secret, underground one – may be finite, resources in this myriad of destinations are abundant, and periodically undergo "resets" that replenish their supplies. So while it may be dangerous, perhaps even lethal, exploring through a portal will always yield reward.
Archive Interviews
Want to learn more about the GATE Cascade Research Facility? Follow our video series - the Archives - where GATE details the many strange things they store and study in their facilities. This status report, we'd like to highlight The Time Bomb, the first in a new series of interviews with your favorite GATE staff members - Abe and Janet.
https://youtu.be/3WX8YzIbuQc
Stay Tuned
When you descend into the GATE Cascade Research Facility you’re going to be facing challenges you won’t expect. Follow these Status Reports for tips, insights and strategies to keep you safe.
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