The Fabury Gate is located in planetary orbit far inside the planet's shunt limit. Besides the obvious convenience of having the gate just above the planet this location also means that no raiders or other enemies can simply shunt in to attack the gate, though this far inside the Highland such attacks are almost completely unknown.
As Trinity approached the man made interface between real and subspace gate control requested the craft follow a specific vector and set its autopilot on the far-side beacon. Through the gate the swirling photon field of subspace shown like an abstract masterwork. As the schooner penetrated the interface her measured forward velocity seemed to be reduced, as if she had dived into a body of syrup. Darvis reconfigured the drive for subspace service, reducing its output until the vessel sprang forward.
Outside, the tunnel like aspect of the conduit, the hyperdrill stabilized gravity structure which allowed vessels to reach the orbital gate-portal without being torn apart by the gravitational shear plane generated by Faury's planetary plateau, surround the vessel. Darvis could see another vessel ahead. The gravscanner showed two more vessels beyond his vision, hidden in the fog like photon field of subspace.
The VORN showed the conduit end-beacon as the schooner left the conduit behind. The beacons for St. Pilimon up road and Grendmouth down road blinked on the display, as the automatic piloting computer awaited his verification. Darvis acknowledged the Grendmouth beacon icon and the Trinity's pilot computer turned the ship to follow the series of beacons. The counter showed 6 days estimated flight time until Grendmouth.
The gravscanner showed the gravity plateau of Fabury falling behind, and the very much larger plateau of Fabury's primary beyond the curved display of the routing beacons. Below and above the shear planes of subspace waited for anyone unwary enough to leave the well marked Major route.
Darvis made sure the computer was monitoring the DOR storm watch channel, broadcast from the hypercable links on the beacon stations. He then left the bridge computer to its work.
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