Trans-dimensional coupler
The trans-dimensional coupler is technology found on the PUV James Keeling, a ship of the Planetary Union Fleet.
The coupler allows Keeling to transition between realspace, the dimensional membrane we are most familiar with, and Luto Regno B.
On the Keeling, the transdim coupler is also known as "the Heartstone."
Probability Levels
Transdim status is listed as five color-coded stages. The stages are not absolute measurements, but rather an indicator of the probability of making a trans-dimensional hop.
- Green: Fully powered up, 99.9% probability of success
- Blue: Roughly between half-power and full-power, 80% to 90% probability of success
- Yellow: Roughly half-power: 65% to 80% probability of success
- Orange: Between half-power and low-power: 50% to 65% chance of success
- Red: Non-functional (out of power):
Excerpts
From SHAKEDOWN (visual description): So far, everything had been tight, congested, cramped. This room was anything but. A good ten meters wide, the room was as wide as the ship itself. In the center was a cylinder of sorts, like the trunk of a misshapen tree made from molten glass. It glowed from within as if lit by a cosmic fire, golden-orange light thrumming and pulsing in a random, nonrhythmic pattern. The cylinder rested upon thick polyps of bright, copper-colored metal that rose up from the floor like the contorted, gilded ribs of some long-lost dinosaur. Elevated metal-grate catwalks ran along both sides of the cylinder. At the middle and at both ends, three steps connected the catwalks to small, rectangular platforms positioned above the glowing construct. Sigler, Scott. The Crypt: Shakedown: (A Military Sci-Fi Novel) (pp. 112-113). Aethon Books. Kindle Edition.
From SHAKEDOWN (color-code described): The transdim status was reported in five colors: green for fully powered-up and a-okay, red if it was out of power or non-functional for any reason. Blue, yellow, and orange took up the middle statuses. That was all Trav had gleaned from roughly ten minutes of prep. He’d learn more about it as soon as he could.
Sigler, Scott. The Crypt: Shakedown: (A Military Sci-Fi Novel) (p. 152). Aethon Books. Kindle Edition.
