Eternity Gate

"My family was entrusted with the knowledge of how to use the Eternity Gates, so that no-one would ever use them again. Nobody in their right mind would want to."

- Arius Valdayn shortly before the activation of the Eternity Gates

The Eternity Gates are a series of space stations constructed by the Eternal species prior to the cataclysm which caused the destruction of their homeworld and, as a result, their extinction. Their construction was a result of the Eternals' inability to reliably use standard faster-than-light space travel due to naturally-occurring anomalies surrounding their region of space causing such means of travel to become effectively inoperable and unusable. The Gates were built in a ring around the Eternals' star so as to use the star's gravity and natural processes to bolster the Gates' range and power. The Gates hypothetically allowed their user(s) to travel to any coordinates in space, time and dimension, however due to the complex and therefore risky nature of their operation and the inherent dangers of their use, they were rapidly hidden by the Ethereal Empire upon that government's discovery of them, and the knowledge of their location and operation was confined only to the House of Valdayn.