Bridgehead One was one of the two busiest star systems of human space.
The only star system that boasted a comparable amount of traffic was Maryun Ultima.
Both transit systems were located hundreds of thousands of light-years away from each other.
Yet what the two had in common was that each of them hosted a greater beyonder gate!
Larger and far more powerful than the lesser beyonder gates that revolutionized space travel in established human space, the greater beyonder gates were the only known means of providing quick and easy transit from the Milky Way to the Red Ocean and vice versa.
Many conspiracy theorists opined that the Big Two must have a second or maybe even a third greater beyonder gate.
The MTA and CFA supposedly kept these gates in reserve in case the main ones malfunctioned.
