G-S16 is known to be a place of many activities within Realspace, however, one of the facets that escapes the gaze of the common eye is what lies above, below, and all around the everyday life of a denizen of the galaxy, at every waking moment: Extra Dimensions.
It is a well known fact that this particular galaxy is a hotspot for dimensional activity, they layer and superimpose upon eachother, and often cross and influence between themselves, coalescing into a beautiful if not erratic dance of different planes of existence, each with their possible own variations of geometries, laws, and possible abundance or lack of energy varieties, which inhabitants of G-S16 take advantage of with most profitable outcomes.
However, this particular hospitable and normal dimensional scape was about to be changed radically.
There is first an unwavering quiet that takes over hold of the galaxy and the surrounding space of it, it travels over like a wave, much faster than light, and takes momentary hold over a broad spectrum of wavetypes and wavelengths. Communications in space and to space are suddenly muted for a few minutes, as the forces that are scramble to find out what is causing the disturbance.
The second harbinger of this particular event is a succinctly following of a barrage of static, permeating and flooding said wavelengths. It isn’t like the common static that a jammer produces, which is a plethora of grey noise that overrides the sensory capacities, it is instead a much more powerful fluctuation of the wavelength itself, as if the innate resting energies that said wavelength represented were being tweaked and thwarted by some unknown force and to some unknown purpose. The sensors’ range of detection and modus operandi moved and detected wavelengths and particles they were simply not built to detect, as these meshed together with the minute yet very prominent effects.
The third temporary maxim is postulated henceforth, as the random jumps and drops of the wavelengths are washed over by a powerful energetic wave, and carried by it as they culminate into one single coherent energetic and probabilistic chorus. The effect takes hold as a form of extremely potent interdiction, one of the likes that necessitates a good degree of manipulation of the fabric of reality itself to be able to peer through. Thus, transportation and travel are temporarily halted, that is, before the ultimatum.
A single large “hiccup” of golden thunder leaves the perpetrator of the recent events, the phenomena known colloquially as “The Storm”. It increases in brightness violently, shining into even the deepest recesses of the darkest dimensions a bright light overcast like an omnipresent sun, then it drops suddenly and violently in a single discharge, as if it took the wavelengths into its hand like large ropes, and crackled the fabric of the universe like a whip. The wave travels in a manner faster than light and undetectable, producing a horrible sound as it goes along of a tremendous thunder, as that of an incomphehensibly enormous lattice being ripped apart ruthlessly yet precisely, carried over by the crashing and clashing waves that it took over.
On one side, it appeared that the wavelengths that were affected normalized soon after the noise rippled through the galaxy, and that there was little to no damage on any equipment, even if it were to be hyper-sensible to the specific wavelength. However, that couldn’t have been it, of course.
Further measurements on the matter demonstrated a much dire consequence of the sudden event, a consequence known as an “Interdimensional Drift”. Travelers of the dimensional space of G-S16 known that between every dimension, every group of dimensions, and Realspace, there is an infinitesimal “gap” that one has to cross, almost like a semi-permeable lattice that you have to peer and poke through to be able to access whatever surrounds you. It is also common knowledge that, normally speaking, the only case where poking through said layer is hard is when interdiction is activated, which hardens this “barrier”, though this innate and natural barrier never seemed to expand or retract, that is, until now.
There is a semi-observable increase in the “size” of the barrier between dimensions, and furthermore, there is a noticeable discrepancy between the arrangements of said dimensions that were separated by this semi-permeable barrier. The barrier itself is dimensionless, as it is the non-space between dimensions, however, its “size” can be measured by the translated drift when one crosses the border between realms, and since that measure has increased significantly, there is a “Dimensional Drift”.
Such an event carries innumerous consequences. Immediately, it makes accessing the more elevated and farther away from realspace dimensions much harder, and it makes certain Interdimensional travel or any other kind of transition harder, though most commercial-class FTL devices are already resilient enough to modulate accordingly to the new exacerbated drift. For now, the increase in drift seems to have drawn to a halt.
However, there may be unknown consequences to this sudden phenomena, consequences that only time, experience, and experimentation will be able to tell.