jump gate n.

‘Well, Senator, you haff yourself to blame,’ Weninger said with ponderous Teutonic joviality. ‘You fight so hard to keep them from building a jumpgate on Earth. Maybe you change your mind now, eh?’

In Zelazny’s Nine Princes in Amber Corwin uses a special deck of cards to communicate with his relatives…. Corwin can use the card and mental contact as a space jump gate. Several times he jumps into the room where his relative is.

She slapped aside the monitor she’d been using to review jump gates and talked herself through a board diagnostic.

The cargo ship, which had followed them through the jump gate, snapped past, decelerating out of translight. The ship, however, did not kick in its sublight retro thrust but continued to race straight in toward the planet at a significant portion of light-speed, a maneuver that was all but suicidal. Which was exactly the intent.

‘We’re trying to make it back to the jump gate,’ the desperate pilot reported.

But before her ship can leave Babylon 5 space, a Vorlon ship appears out of the jumpgate.

He’d have been absolutely fucking delighted with one that could be traversed with some kind of warp-drive or jumpgates or wormholes or similar fanciful mechanism.

The good old days when the worst that could happen to him was to get sucked into a malformed jump gate and crushed by a singularity.

My favorite part is serving on the bridge. I can’t touch anything, but I can watch. I love when we hit the jump gate.

She has control of the reconstructed jump gate, which allows for travel to the inner empire. [Ibid. 262] Precisely at 0900 Maclintock ordered us to break dock, and we did, proceeding in an orderly manner to the jump gate ring for a trip into the unknown.