Nexus of Gnosi and Dakshinaatl
The Nexus of Gnosi and Dakshinaatl was the first of many planned mongering nexuses in Taisunia. These portals created a powerful bound teleporation that would exchange the goods between the two locations significantly faster than wagon travel. In addition, the portals were free from the dangers of bandits.
The first shipment to be traded took over two hours to complete and five pounds of vitraxine. Gnosi sent ten bushels of jorenfruit, twenty pounds of fire cactus mash, and a copy of the entire collection of works by famed Gnosian poet, Loki. Dakshinaatl sent ten pounds of leaftusk steaks and five bushels of jappa stalks whose gooey, nutty interior is a delicacy in their country that had never made it to Gnosi before due to their short shelf life.
Over the next four years, this nexus increased trade between the two countries, eclipsing the trade alliance between Dakshinaatl and Lochmalan. The influx of new materials led to a renaissance in both countries where new recipes and textiles were developed with the lower cost of what were once rare raw materials. Jappa curry, a Gnosian dish with fried cactus mash, potatoes, in a creamy jappa stalk sauce and served with golden rice from Lochmalan is one such dish. The traditional orkan, a light plate like armor made from interwoven ferns, now uses the extracted mucus of the Gnosian spitting spider to bind the ferns increasing the defensive capabilities without reducing the flexibility.
Unfortunately, after the Taisun mine explosion in 1242, the vitraxine requirements were deemed too excessive to be sustainable, and the nexus was shuttered. A similar fate befell the Nexus between Mourianji and Lochamalan, the only other mongering nexus to be complete before the mine explosion having been open for only a few short months. Many of the innovations developed during this period have slowly been phased out due to their now expensive cost to make, causing many of the dishes developed during the short window to be used as a way to flaunt status.
Power Generation
The nexus is powered by pure vitraxine bars inscribed with a set of runes that interlock with the teleportation spell. These bars are loaded into a repository that slowly lowers the bars through the missing rune of the portal. As each bar passes through the rune circle, it completes the teleportation spell moving 10 cubic feet of material. Both portals must be loaded with vitraxine before the synchronized teleportation can begin.
Once the vitraxine bar passes through to the other side, the bar is inert. Initial concerns that the bars would develop vitraxophy were unfounded, though attempts to recharge them were also unsuccessful.
Armor and defense
The Gnosi and Dakshinaatl portals have dense steel doors and even denser foritifed walls. Before the realization that living organisms could only travel individually, there was concern the portals could be used to infiltrate a city. This concern is also the reason so many safeguards have been put in place to ensure the trade is fully accepted by both trading parties. Now these powerful defenses are no longer used to keep an invading force trapped inside, but rather to keep others out.
Communication Tools & Systems
The control panels for the two sides of the nexus are arcanely linked. This link allows them to communicate with one another showing a log of what each party plans to trade. Both traders must accept the deal which will lock the required goods that must be in the portal before the nexus can be activated. Again, both sides must choose to activate before the nexus will initate teleportation. Once initiated, the nexus will complete the teleportation unless the teleportation circle is destroyed.
Class
Nickname
In Dakshinaatl: DA-SI, Daisy, Flower Nexus; In Gnosi: GNO-TL, Nozzle, Water Nexus
Motto
A nexus brings everything next to us
Manufacturer
Creation Date
1233-1238 VE
Decommission Date
1242 VE
Owning Organization
Speed
10 cubic foot per hour
Cargo & Passenger Capacity
800 cubic feet of non-living material per side of the nexus
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