Orbital Gate

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Due to the straining and costly effects of warp drive on starships, Cornerian scientists created a new means of transportation; a link between two places that allowed a ship to jump instantaneously between the two.

This process was dubbed a "gate' between the two places and the name stuck ever since.

The Gate operates by separating a main and several back-up re-blocks to form a circle approporiately sized to fit even a Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, and expose the circle to energy to allow for the matter entered to turn to energy, and then transmitted to its destination to be converted back into matter.

However, this method of transportation has its dangers, since an anomaly in the energy exposure can cause a ship to jump off course, or have the ship being permanently transformed into energy. Advanced sensor packages have been installed on gates to allow for early detection of anomalies and emergency shutdown procedures.

The orbital Gate above Corneria was renamed the Beltino Orbital Gate after the Aparoid invasion was defeated by the Star Fox Team with the help of the gate's namesake, Beltino Toad.