The Carrier
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The Carrier is the base of operations of The Authority. It is a shiftship, a ship capable of moving through the Bleed, the red space which separates alternate universes in the Wildstorm multiverse. It is 50 miles long, 35 miles high and two miles wide. It is powered by a caged baby universe.
It is known that the Carrier was originally a trading ship, used to travel and trade between alternate dimensions, but its black box was found all but wiped and so its true origins remain unknown. The Carrier was parked in Earth orbit some time in the past and remained dormant until it was discovered by Jenny Sparks of The Authority and used as their base of operations from 1999 onwards.
The Carrier exists in orbit around the Earth but at the same time continuously sails through the higher dimensions of the multiverse. It is capable of opening doors between any two points in space, allowing quick access from the Carrier to anywhere on Earth, as well as to the past, future and to alternate universes. While it is also itself capable of traveling almost literally anywhere, the Carrier stays tied to Earth orbit so that whoever left it there can come back to collect it. It is reluctant to leave although will do so if given some convincing.
The Carrier has always been shown to have some degree of intelligence. It was explicitly revealed that it is, in fact, sentient. It is also able to control time in a small area, for a short period.
At one point, Kev Hawkins almost destroys the Carrier with an alien-controlled atomic bomb. The Carrier puts up its defenses and saves approximately seventy percent of itself, but not the living quarters, causing the members to 'lose all their stuff'.
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The Carrier exists outside space and time, but is technically also in the same place as Earth, because of the reality anchor that was dropped there. The "Door" works, when it is requested a destination and walk through, the authority can get where they want because the carrier is everywhere on earth at the same time.
Carrier Traveled Dimensions
- The Bleed = Superposed Channel between alternate realities.
- Devachanic Realm = where it moved as a speed of twenty-five dreams per second
- Outer Oceans of Ideaspace = during the spawning season, keeping pace with a school of obsession fish.
- Mind Barrier Reef = where the brains of the latent telepaths grow together in their sleep.
- The Center of a Superstring
- Sliding Albion
- Edge of the Millennium
- Keeping Pace with the Dead = swimming up reality to witness the conception of an infant parallel universe.
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Catagory: Wildstorm
