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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonesy" data-source="post: 6038974" data-attributes="member: 10324">More thoughts:Somewhere inside the barrier generator there is a supervision room. The room is a hollow sphere a thousand kilometers across with a miniature version of local space. Local space being everything within range of the real barrier field. Everything in the room is a miniature (slightly out of scale) version of the real space it depicts. There will be small stars and planets, asteroid fields, a pair of black holes, comets..(and anything else you want the local space to contain).What the characters are meant to realize is that the miniature barrier generator planet at the center of the miniature map has a moon rotating around it. They never noticed a moon outside. The moon rotates the planet exactly above the rift between the two halves, a hundred thousand kilometers away from it.The real moon still has an active cloaking field. The characters need to shut it down somehow (the controls for this could be somewhere in the supervision room).Looking up from the planet the moon looks like a dark red rock, with oddly stumped western and eastern sides. Getting to the moon will reveal that those sides are flat and a little reflective. Getting to the 'dark' side they will find that it is one huge circular hole all the way in.The moon is basically a railgun system for travelling out of the barrier field, always pointing away from the planet. At the bottom of the huge moon chamber there is a room with a holographic map. This one shows a much larger area of space. There are several locations marked with symbols. Each symbol is a Celestial location. The location markers inside Known Space (known by the characters and most of the Star Wars universe) are not lighted up, as if they were no longer there (Taken over by the Rakata, or others, somewhere in the past. The characters might be able to recognize a couple of them, like maybe Tatooine?). Some location markers are very bright (the gun station is still in contact with them).Firing the gun sends whatever is inside the huge chamber to another similar gun a looooooooooooong way away. The gun is basically safe, by which I mean: if the characters left their ship/s outside, and walked here, and one of them is inside the chamber when they manage to fire it, that character will be fired to the other gun in the most hair raising experience of his or her life, and arrive safely. Whether the gun creates a forcefield around its cargo to protect it, or creates a tunnel through space, I don't know. The gun also doesn't appear to utilize kinetic energy. If the characters leave their ship just outside the chamber entrance and then accidentally fire their own people at the ship, they will hit it, stop at the surface of the ship, and find that they haven't even bruised themselves. The gun is, basically, not a weapon. Just the wildest kind of transport device.</blockquote>

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