Portal rift

Portal rifts (Also called space rifts) are dangerous but useful gateways created from void energy that appear between galaxies in the universe, functioning as shortcuts between worlds through the galactic void, teleporting the rider to a target point if successful. However, it takes plenty of skill and concentration from anyone who wants to ride their space ship through, and if one does not make it all the way through, the rider risks getting pulled into the galactic void and being stuck there for all eternity.

Portal rifts appear as long circular tunnels, with the barriers having a pulling gravitational effect to the ship. These barriers appear as stripes, rays and orbs of void energy in colors varrying from deep purple, to bright blue, to ghostly white, to shiny red. The end of the rift connects these stripes and rays in one spot, which is where the rider needs to hit exactly, in order to successfully get through. When closing in on the rift's end, the tunnel will slowly get tighter and tighter, thus being the most dangerous and difficult part of the journey through. If this exact spot is not hit spot on in time before the portal rift collapses, the result will also be an eternity of being stuck alone in the galactic void. On rare occasions, a strange nature phenonemon reveals what appears as a long snake-like body of undying black flames spinning around the barrier all the way through the portal rift's tunnel.

Another danger about portal rift travelling is the risk of being critically hit by one of the many large chunks of former planetary ground and meteorittes that have previously been caught in the rift and flies through it, just like the space ship. However, in addition to the many dangers already mentioned, the void energy can also interact with bypassing space vessels' control systems, and even tear them down. All these many dangers have made this kind of space travel an unpopular rare sollution, despite probably being the fastest way through the universe.

Am'ar Kardos rode through a portal rift, that teleported him to the atmosphere of planet Arkadia in Year 1753 Day 246.