The Gate (Solo)

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Instability Catalyst, usually shortened to Catalyst, is the energy created throughout the Instability Zone, the energy produced by universes overlapping, it is the energy released by the friction of two or more universes dragging along eachother in the Finite
Hunters use Catalyst as fuel and currency, to trade goods with settlements, other Hunters and to keep their bases immune to the Instability.

Reality Stabilization Anchors, more commonly known as RSA's are what keep stability in the chaos of the Gate. They take extracted Unstable Catalyst and use it to power giant bubbles of stability. Within the Instability Zones, the displays on the Anchors allow the users to choose which universe to stabilize and settle in, or create its own space, though the latter option takes a much greater amount of Catalyst to keep active.

Home Station is a special location. It has many terminals that allow people to return to their home universes. They have many sensors to determine the universe's within the Finite and how long they'll stay in it, which allows hunters and refugees to have a way home. The only problem, is that you must pay to use the station, and that price is determined by the individual, not by a flat rate.

Multiple factions are at war for contracts and power within The Gate.
The most known ones are
Fractal: a team made entirely from variants of one person, who identify themselves with the colour they wear as opposed to name, since they all share the same name.
Church of Finite: A religious organization that hires mercenaries to gather Catalyst. They answer to all non-allied hunters with immediate aggression.
Indie: Indie is the term used to refer to individuals who hunt for Catalyst on their own, without the backing of factions.
Cragglers: black market and illegal hunters who are known for hijacking bases and indies to steal their Catalyst, and more often than not, their bases themselves, leaving hunters to die in the instability.
NEO's: NEO's are corporate hunters bearing the Neo-Hominid logo. They wield advanced weaponry and technology, and act as police forces for the Instability and most Sanctuary Cities.
Other Factions: many squads and minor factions fight to make themselves known

The lands within the Instabiltiy Zone are always changing as essence from different universes collide with one another. The landscapes can change in a split second, ruined cities that fly upside down are scattered throughout the Instability Zone. Other factions of Anchor Catalyst Hunters can also be encounteredc which often ends in combat to steal the other’s Anchor Catalyst. It is possible for {{user}} to encounter variants of themselves, a copy of {{user}} from another universe, with their own abilities and backstory.
The Cataclysm is a multiversal disaster. What was once an ordinary world turned to chaos when The Gate, the passage between realms suddenly collapsed, sending universes crashing into one another. Monsters, environments, animals, technologies and people were all scattered through the Instability Zone, the point of merging where all the universe that collide with one another create.
{{user}} may find abandoned bases of myriad designs left behind by other Hunters that ran out of Catalyst to fuel their RSA's, or ransacked by Cragglers and NEO's.

Walking Bases are the standard for Gate travel. They are genius feats of mechanical engineering. They can be as small as a tripod house to a full on spider-like military base.
All walking bases have a cockpit, communication array, Mechanical Room, and Deployment Airlock.
Bigger walking bases will obviously have more features.

each Sanctuary city and some walking bases have one, it is a large machine at the center of the infrastructure that creates a stability bubble which allows for the city to shield itself from the effects of the Instability Zone. they need Anchor Catalyst to keep functioning, which is harvested in especially chaotic parts of the Instability Zone. The more potent Anchor Catalyst can be collected at the impact point of two universes within the Instability Zone.

The main sanctuary Cities are:

• Arcadia, the largest of them all.
  -Lumina, second largest, known for being the centre of operations for the Church of Finite.
  -Aelaria, The sanctuary city in which the Home Station is located.
• Cragg, a moving city home to the Gate's black market and more dubious operations.

The Instability Zone is the merging place of all the universe that crash together. It is an ever changing landscape that can turn from an arid desert to a lush forest, from a volcanic plateau to an arctic ocean within seconds, with no real way of predicting it’s changes.
The area of the multiverse affected by The Gate is known as the Finite, a stagnant area within the multiverse where universes overlap like bubbles merging while they move through the Finite.

The best way to harvest Catalyst is with Condensers. heavy deployable equipment that acts like a syphon. It sucks in the ambiant Catalyst and accumulates in a tank as a glowing prismatic grainy liquid. when a condenser tank is full, it will rapidly cool down and turn the Catalyst into orange crystal for easy processing and carrying.