Contributor's Guide

The purpose of this guide is to provide a basic overview of the universe within Project Gravitas.

=Style Guide=
 * Past Tense is to be used.
 * This wiki should be written using British English spellings.
 * For date formats, see Galactic Calendar.

=Technology=

Faster Than Light
Tachyon gates allowed travel across vast interstellar distances by converting a ship into tachyonic matter and accelerating it many times the speed of light. Travel via T-Gates requires both a sending and receiving gate, without a receiving gate to "catch" the ship and convert it back into baryonic matter, the ship will remain a cloud of tachyons forever. Tachyon gates have two forms, inter-system and inter-sector.

Distortion Drive is the method of superluminal travel used to get between Tachyon gates. It works by expanding space behind the ship and contracting space in front of it, moving space around the ship instead of moving the ship directly. This allows the laws of relativity to be ignored.

Shipboard
Railguns were primarily used on large ships as their main guns. They worked by accelerating a projectile along conductive rails at a high velocity; which was incredibly effective in space as there was no friction to worry about and the projectile could accelerate indefinitely.

Blasters fired a pulse of coherent plasma. They were typically only used at short range.

Lasers used a beam of excited atoms to burn through various materials.

Personal
Coilguns worked on similar principle to railguns, but instead of a rail, they used multiple coils.

Screens
Kinetic screens utilized the manipulation of gravity fields to prevent solid objects from passing through them. Kinetic screens were also useful in deflecting incoming blaster fire.

Energy screens were forcefields designed to dissipate incoming radiation. Energy screens were the primary defense against laser fire, as well as blasters in conjunction with kinetic screens.

=Great Eras= There are six great eras in Project Gravitas


 * The Foundation Era GSY 8147 - GSY 10381
 * The Discord Era GSY 10381 - GSY 10512
 * The Tranquility Era GSY 10512 - GSY 11730
 * The Era of Sorrow GSY 11730 - GSY 12143
 * The Era of Hope GSY 12143 - GSY 12157
 * The Pathfinder Incursion GSY 12157 - GSY 12189
 * The Tal Rising Era GSY 12189 - Ongoing