Crossings Intercontinual Worldgating Facility
The best-known and most senior worldgating facility in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
The Crossings is a massive facility originally built on the site of a naturally occurring worldgate on Rirhath B. Over some thousands of years it has been rebuilt and augmented many times, until it now spans an acreage which (in Nita's estimation) is probably equivalent to that of a very large city, or a very small state.
Some of its technology is native: some is imported from other gate capable cultures on this side of the Galaxy, and it has an ancient affiliation with the Interconnect Project based out of the Alterf system before that star went nova. (Many Interconnect Project facilities were relocated to the Crossings after the rafting out of the populations of Alterf IVa and the system's other inhabited bodies.)
The Crossings is famous not only for the size and range of its worldgates, but for its beautiful Lilene architecture -- in particular its implementation, on a massive scale, of the Lilene "elective ceiling" concept, which both protects daytime travellers from the system's ferocious Class O sunlight, and also allows nighttime travellers an unparallelled view of the planet's extraordinary night sky. (Rirhath B is sited in the middle of a particularly tight cluster of short-term variables.)
See also: Crossings Hypergate Facility, Rirhath B, Stationmaster.
