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What is the canonical origin of the blue rift expanse?

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I made the rift (not Exhack) when I expanded the map, because I wanted some cool features on it. Since then various RPs have used it which is exactly what I hoped for when I put it there. SARPers have long speculated about its origins, which are not canonically explained.

What do you think, people?
Moved to Setting Discussion.

I'm not sure we ever had a solid explanation for the Rift. It's been used by the Freespacers and Iroma, and a couple YSE vessels have explored it, but that's it.

It might be something we don't get to know.
 
I have the answer.

Exhack made it. It's as far as the Iroma who mine it know, a natural special formation related to their FTL capabilities. Essentially a hyperspace rip in our space.

The blue rift is much like the bad lands in trek, dangerous and difficult to navigate save for the most skilled helmsmen.

The expanse also produces a mineral that the Iromakuane base their technology off of.
 
Seems like a nice gap in spacetime. Y'know, like, a really nice hole. A pleasing opening. It would be a real shame if something were to happen to it.

No, just kidding, what I'm doing has very little in common with that, I'm just making you guys do the whole "well what are you writing your paper on?" thing because I'm an asshole like that.

@Exhack Yeah, I'm gonna need you to tell me, if you had to pick any made up pretend reason that its blue, what's your favourite and why is that also your favourite flavor of slushpuppy or other iced sweetened fruit drink confection? Also how do you feel about blue tongues and blue eyes. That's really important.
 
I certainly like to think it has something to do with the naturally forming life in the spacial region. They likely can after all see it in their night sky. Some may even venerate it.

The color blue(I know I wasn't asked) symbolically represents compassion and life. That's why people with blue eyes some times get told they have kind eyes, or why it's a common color of medicine. Blue Cross Blue Shield.

But I'm betting blue was randomly selected here.
 
The wiki says:
The exact cause and effect of the Blue Rift are not understood.
So it doesn't have a canonical origin. The origin is canonically unknown and mysterious.
 
Exhack hasn't been here for two years, @OsakanOne.

We've defined the Rift to the point of necessity. That's not a high bar, but so far, players, GMs and staff haven't complained.

If you're going to do something with it through yours, Doc's or other such threads, can Doc please explain what it will be in the GM forum?
 
I made the rift (not Exhack) when I expanded the map, because I wanted some cool features on it. Since then various RPs have used it which is exactly what I hoped for when I put it there. SARPers have long speculated about its origins, which are not canonically explained.

What do you think, people?
 
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On the contrary.

The Blue Rift expanse is a region of significant inter-dimensional fatigue to the point where it is not a reliable FTL zone. The vessels staging forays in the Blue Rift expanse had to undergo significant modifications to their FTL and Aetheric tech to have them function 'correctly' in the Blue Rift; properly outfitted, they were able to get about 60% potency out of them (which is why Daisy power armors were able to survive direct strikes from aether saber-rifles during the few conflicts waged in that region of space). Those same modifications, once done, make a ship function much less efficiently in normal space - so it isn't some procedure you can just outfit ships and then prevent being hindered.

The actual origin of the event is unknown in-character. Conjecture from players have lead them to believe it is one of the signs confirming Melisson's 'boogeyman' story of prolific aether useage is tearing our universe at the seams. The version I fancy OoCly is that it's a temporal inversion: a temporal event that happened in the future and has growing repercusions in the past.

I find it is the most credible excuse for the event and its limiting factors on realspace, subspace, hyperspace and aetherspace. Especially aetherspace: Wes made it obvious he was fed up with anything dampening aetheric tech, and the one thing that exceeds that concern is time: aether tech is all pretty much a zero-point energy tap where you have a certain bandwidth per time to obtain aether. Mess with time beyond merely the relativistic (what our tech is meant to cope against), and you can perhaps handwave in sci-fi fashion why aether doesn't work very well in that region.
 
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