Gate

This is an adventure for Cepheus Engine.

Over the centuries of human habitation in the Sonora sector many alien artifacts have been discovered. Artifacts and structures have been located on planets, moons, asteroids, comets and even on rogue worlds traveling through the sector. Rarely, however, has one been discovered in space. Recently a peculiar structure has been located in space in a system known as Xexegailia. This unclaimed world is uninhabited and is located in a sub-sector of the Sonora sector with few occupied systems. This particular world is unstable with a nearly poisonous atmosphere. This explains why it gets so few visitors.

The alien structure is a circular loop in space big enough for a fairly large star ship to pass through it. It is located at the system’s one gas giant which is why it has just been so recently discovered. There are alien runes and markings on the outside of the structure but the meaning of these is unknown at this time.

Rumors about this newly found structure are spreading wildly in the Sonora sector. A number of scientists from competing entities and alien races have visited the structure but no one seems to have discovered it’s meaning or how to get the device to work.

Scientist Olivia Pérez, of the Sonoran institute of Alien Technology, has a theory. She believes that this alien structure is a stargate that will take a star ship to another galaxy far from this one. She has done a preliminary study of the alien runes and feels that she understands their meaning. She has theories on how the gate operates and where the gate travels to. She is seeking brave explorers who are willing to test her theories with the gate.