Hyperspace Gates

Hyperspace Gates are large devices that help space fairing ships travel faster than light speeds without actually travelling at light speed by utilizing four dimensional space.

The amount of power to generate a Hyperspace Portal is so immense that it has yet to be found on a ship, only large gates at end of solar systems.

It is not completely known what powers the ancient Hyperspace Gates that have been discovered, except it is exotic matter, the advantage to this matter is that it needs no time to "recharge" unlike S.F. built gates, which after being open for 5 minutes need to be "recharged" for several hours. S.F. based Gates use anti-matter to generate the energy needed to open a portal.

It is believed that the original Hyperspace gates in the milky way were built by an ancient powerful species only known as the Syn'Tar. The ancient gates are believed to be numerous throughout the galaxy, but only a few have been discovered within the Orion-Cygnus arm (where our solar system is located).

Humans first discovered the first Hyperspace Gate in 2077, learning how to operate it actually was simple as it was simple mathematical solution, this is how Humanity first reached out passed the Solar system and beyond, which in effect created the S.F..

Though working out how to use the Hyperspace Gate proved simple, building ships to withstand the turbulent Hyperspace was a different matter, and it wouldn't be for several more generations before they were able to reverse engineer them and begin creating their own. (By 2478 only 2 Human made gates have been built).