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   * As the vision concludes, Delicate Harmony intuits the following: A gate formed by these two would be a true two-way connection. However, there would be some other drawbacks. Hive IV’s component parts would remain scattered, in the animals spread around Hive IV, until the moment the gate(s) came into existence. A large number are currently in one area, but not all. A small, person-sized ‘portal’ would likely come into existence wherever one of those creatures was. The Endeavour end would be a single gate and could look like whatever Endeavour chooses - Delicate Harmony could envisage some kind of small space platform in orbit around a planet, or similar. What they would end up with is the Hive IV moon covered in small portals which take you to the Endeavour end. From the Endeavour end you would pop out somewhere on Hive IV - none of the portals would have priority or preference.   * As the vision concludes, Delicate Harmony intuits the following: A gate formed by these two would be a true two-way connection. However, there would be some other drawbacks. Hive IV’s component parts would remain scattered, in the animals spread around Hive IV, until the moment the gate(s) came into existence. A large number are currently in one area, but not all. A small, person-sized ‘portal’ would likely come into existence wherever one of those creatures was. The Endeavour end would be a single gate and could look like whatever Endeavour chooses - Delicate Harmony could envisage some kind of small space platform in orbit around a planet, or similar. What they would end up with is the Hive IV moon covered in small portals which take you to the Endeavour end. From the Endeavour end you would pop out somewhere on Hive IV - none of the portals would have priority or preference.
   * Delicate Harmony also gets the feeling that, if they cared strongly about guiding one of these to a different conclusion, they could allow their own self and knowledge to be subsumed into the ritual in order to add some shape to the outcome.   * Delicate Harmony also gets the feeling that, if they cared strongly about guiding one of these to a different conclusion, they could allow their own self and knowledge to be subsumed into the ritual in order to add some shape to the outcome.
 +  * After this, the party sit around and have a deep discussion about their options. Of the two alternatives available to make the gate in the 'Pentagonal' style that Delicate Harmony now understands, neither is perfect. Both have drawbacks. However, the party eventually decide that the system really does need a gate which can sustain spaceship travel through it, similar to the Orion Gate previously. Scheduling difficulties may pose a problem, sure, but that will be manageable with sufficient bureaucracy. They therefore decide to try making a gate out of Her Glorious Command and Perfect Reverie. (Note: everyone broadly does want to help Hive IV, too, but they don't feel that turning it into a Gate is the only, or the morally correct, way to do this.)
 +  * The party reconvene with Her Glorious Command and Perfect Reverie. Perfect Reverie is taken out into space with a shuttle, with half the party supporting each side of the pairing. A ritual is set up for both ship hearts simultaneously, drawing on Delicate Harmony's knowledge from the pentagonal diadem to recreate the ritual seen in [[Ritual]] on both sides. This works almost exactly as Delicate Harmony and Budding Leaf had witnessed the Pentagonal civilisation doing it: the only difference is in the styling of the vision, and particularly the 'socket' that the ship heart's power has to be pushed into. Her Glorious Command's socket looks a lot like a throne, while Perfect Reverie's is a set of simple but beautiful arches on some steps leading upward. The fight to separate personality from power is as difficult as everyone remembers from the Pentagonal history, but everyone throws their efforts in and eventually - simultaneously - it is done. Those in the shuttle are able to look out and see the two new gates - //Her Glorious Command//, the spaceship, now completely reshaped into a space station with a Gate-shaped opening; and a pure, simple set of columns and cross-pieces forming a gate in space that was Perfect Reverie. Each group also awakens with a small, shining gemstone - the personality relics of each ship heart.
  
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