W'toyar Ouwerai: Three Variants of Portals

The man who discovered the material released the information publicly, where it spread to all corners of the globe. Busybodies who tried to limit and regulate its usage were overwhelmed with homemade models and public domain design. Because the materials could be bought at the local store, anyone could create a portal with a day's wages. Ultimately, corporations simplified the process to make the models even cheaper and more accessible.

There were three primary variants of the technology. In each variation, a portal for Point A and a portal for Point B were required.   First, there was the original technology, one that worked exactly to the physicist's more elaborate specifications and opened a door from point A to point B. Engineers could tell the first variant from the other two by the clear image of the other side on each portal's face. The version could not be mass-produced and so was only used by the wealthy or by governments who were looking to solve mass transportation issues.   Variant two, the most popular variant, took an individual from Point A to Point B. However, the transporter would arrive at Point B after a certain time had passed, calculated linearly on the distance between Point A and Point B. The speed varied between different devices, but models from the same corporation always had the same speed.   Variant three, for the more patient yet ambitious, took an individual from Point A to Point B in the same time frame, but the individual must have first waited for a certain amount of time (the same as in Variant Two) in limbo. The transporter would walk through the portal into a small room, generated by the act of transportation. The walls, floor, and ceiling of the room were noted to be of a purple, luminous, rubbery material that could be harvested. After a time, the portal from Point B would open up, and the transporter would arrive at Point B at the same time at which he entered.

This was the result of a physicist who was able to isolate and eliminate the change in time factor from velocity while working with physics equations. The most efficient portals required complex mathematics and fine-tuning that could never be mass-produced. As a result, he simplified his findings in a way that common folk with a basic understanding of physics could interpret. The simplified version would still move people from Point A to Point B, but there were complications.