Wormhole travel.



Few have witnessed wormhole formation with the naked
eye, this is a computer extrapolation based on
a hyper spectral sensor capture



Over eight hundred years ago, the first developments were made in making faster-than-light travel possible.  A form of exotic matter exocromium was discovered that, when kept in a specific inertial frame at a precise level of atomic activity, actually had an net energy density less than 0.  This obscure discovery would have massive and far-reaching implications because it allowed the opening of a stable, traversable wormhole.







This was merely an academic curiosity until an eccentric billionaire funded an expedition to the one place in the solar system where such a wormhole was theorized to exist.  After a two year journey aboard the scientific research vessel Aquarius out to the inner Kuiper belt, the first stable Einstein-Rosen Bridge was opened and an unmanned probe was sent through. 

Unfortunately telemetry with the probe was lost immediately and no confirmation of success was obtained.  Professor Mirka Gerhardt refused to leave without validation and piloted a small shuttle craft through the wormhole.  The crew of the Aquarius left maintained the wormhole as long as they could but eventually had to close it.  They were preparing to depart and report their tragic failure when the wormhole was reopened and Prof. Gerhardt returned through it.  It seemed that when stabilizing the wormhole at one end allowed safe travel from that point, it prevented anything from entering the other end.  Fortunately Prof Gerhardt had sufficient materials aboard her shuttle to synthesize the Exotic Matter and open the portal from her end and return.