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Weylforge exotic matter creation and wormhole generation |
A Weylforge actually consists of an entire array of devices all handling different aspects of wormhole construction.
Power: Wormhole capture from the quantum foam and initial expansion currently requires energy equivalent to approximately 10% of the daily power output of a Sol-type star (although in the early days of wormhole creation energy requirements were vastly larger). This energy is generated by a large array of solar collectors in extreme close orbit to the star. Energy from the collectors is beamed to a number of energy storage units in higher orbit. Standard 1000km diameter collector satellites are generally used. In a basic weylforge, approximately 1% of the energy production of the star is intercepted for wormhole production. This allows for, at most, the generation of one wormhole pair per ten standard days. Larger weylforges may employ a dyson collector to tap the entire power output of the local star for energy, permitting a correspondingly greater number of gateways to be constructed at any one time. At the largest scale, entire neutron stars or pulsar/sun binary pairs may be tapped. The enormous energy and matter resources available in such systems are the key to the simultaneous creation of thousands of wormhole gateways.
Energy Storage: Energy from the power collection system is beamed to storage units in higher orbit around the star. Energy is stored as matter/antimatter pairs, one of the most compact forms of energy possible for normal matter. Modern Weylforges employ femtotech arrays to convert the beamed energy from the power system directly into matter and antimatter without bulky particle accelerator systems. Each converter unit consists of a laser receiver disk, energy to matter converter and a pair of matter/antimatter packaging, storage and transport modules. Energy to matter conversion is typically 95% efficient, necessitating the use of neutrino cooling systems to remove waste heat. A typical energy storage module is a cylindrical structure 10km in length and 100m in diameter. The laser receiver disk is approx. 100 km in diameter. Each unit can produce and store approx. 370,000 tonnes of matter/antimatter. A typical weylforge employs 1000 energy storage units in the production of a wormhole. Stabilization frame manufacturing modules: Self-replicating pico- femtotech devices that manage the creation of the wormhole stabilization frames. Production modules typically operate at worksites at some distance from the main Weylforge components due to the generally more distant location of stabilization frame materials. The modules generate and regulate a series of sub-quantum reactions mediated through the Zero Point Field to convert normal matter to exotic matter, implode it down to virtually cosmic string densities, and then 'tune' it into the ultra-high frequency stabilization and control patterns that make up the structure of the frames. Once a basic nanometer gauge wormhole stabilization frame pair has been constructed, it is transported to the Wormhole Production Module of the weylforge.
Wormhole production module: Primary structural component of a weylforge. Consists of the central production sphere, typically 10,000 km in diameter. The outer surface of the sphere is covered with docking stations for energy storage modules, while the inner surface is layered with the accelerator and tuning machinery necessary to convert the power from the energy storage units into the converging particle streams that result in the creation of a local vacuum fluctuation in the central wormhole production resonance cavity.
Wormhole production:
Wormhole production consists of two phases: The accumulation of sufficient energy to power the process and the production of the wormhole itself.
To produce a wormhole, a weylforge first accumulates energy in the form of matter/antimatter in its energy storage modules. When the 1000 modules necessary for wormhole manufacture have accumulated enough energy, they combine the matter and anti-matter together and beam the resulting energy to the production module, usually in the form of high energy gamma ray lasers.
The storage modules beam their energy to the production module in a single coordinated burst. While this occurs, the new stabilization frame pair is precisely positioned within the center of the production resonance cavity. The energy from the matter/antimatter reaction is used to power a sequence of converging ultra-high energy particle streams. At the focus of the production unit, the particle beams impact with each other and produce a fluctuation in the zero point field that is tuned to capture and inflate a quantum wormhole to nanometer dimensions. As the wormhole expands, it `borrows' energy from the vacuum to power its growth, becoming ever more unstable in the process. Left to itself, the wormhole will rapidly destabilize and implode back into the quantum foam, `repaying' the energy it has taken from the vacuum in the process. However, before this occurs the two mouths of the inflating wormhole encounter the stabilization frames and are prevented from recollapsing back into the quantum foam. The stabilization frames act to maintain the wormhole and replace the initial energy `repaid' to the vacuum. Once the stabilization frames and associated deployment systems have damped any quantum instabilities, the wormhole is transported to whatever location is required and the process of production begins again.
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