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Has anyone had any luck closing the Liminal portals? I don't have anything to go off of, other than guesswork, but it seems like cutting that off might be the best way to keep all of us from ending up dead in space. Although I suppose that would be one solution. But probably not the one we want.

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Does anyone even know how to close them once they've been opened? For all the people who have learned how to create them, I have never heard of anyone reversing the process.

The ones I've made have always closed on their own shortly after I make them. I've never had one stay open all on its own, so I've never tried to close one before.

As have mine.

I don't think these are deliberate, though it's possible they're the side effect of some deliberate act. Their manifestation appears to be entirely random.

It could be possible that opening them is deliberate, but whatever's doing it doesn't have the control to do it in anything other than a random nature. A side-effect does seem like a reasonable explanation, though. But if it is, what is it a side-effect of? The storm?

Perhaps. Although - the potential connection between superluminal travel and interdimensional travel has long been the basis for thought exercises in my own universe. It's possible that it's not the effect of one single force, but rather the combination of multiple factors: our speed, the storm, perhaps even our presence, as entities with a connection to alternate planes of existence.

Oh, I see. We don't have technology like this where I'm from. No one's made it off the planet in a very long time, and even when it was possible, I don't think they could get very far. Given how little anyone knows about these ships, or what we're actually running from, I guess that's something we can't dismiss as a possibility.

Unfortunately, there aren't many possibilities we can dismiss.

I would give a great deal to have access to an academic library at this point - or an extranet connection.

That would certainly help a lot, wouldn't it? I guess it's a bit much to ask for from a couple of salvaged spaceships, though.

Bound from a prison world, no less.

[There's the impression of a sigh.]

Even the shape of Liminal Space doesn't seem to reveal anything - at least, not to my eyes.

I didn't spend long looking at it, myself, but I couldn''t make any sense of it. The clues are usually subtle... but these might be too subtle, if it even means anything at all. The fact that anyone could see it... I'm not sure what influence that might have had.

Too subtle, or tuned to a specific frame of reference. I suppose we are both outliers - if there is a message, we may not be the ones intended to catch it.

That's a possibility... Well, hopefully someone else can catch it, if that's the case.

Yes, hopefully so. And hopefully the presence of so many natives and Infiltrators will not have skewed the - language, for lack of a better word - toward their cultural context.

I've been trying to figure it out, but I haven't really been having any luck. I wish I knew why they're not closing on their own like ours do. And why they're a different color too...

It's possible they're operating on a different...wavelength, for lack of a better word than our own portals do. That might also explain why Infiltrators can pass through them, but not through ours.

That, or perhaps the portals we generate are still in part under the control of the Trumps, and so are subject to their security measures.

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