Nexus on the edge of the Positive Energy Plane from which the Seeds of Life emerge
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"The trip to the Gates took nearly five hours, during which Gorfang and Eloy snatched some sleep and checked their equipment. Towards the end of the voyage, the ship had been increasingly buffeted by some sort of turbulence, until they were forced to sit in the fixed chairs or hold on to the walls. According to Straff, in this region, the ship had to balance the pull of the Gates of Life with the thrust of the solar sails or be dragged into the Gates and destroyed. Peering cautiously out through the door of the deckhouse, they saw that the incredible ball of the Gates of Life now filled half the sky, shot through with flame and lightning and surrounded by tiny orbiting points of light. Caught like a feather between the mighty forces of the Gates' gravity and the photon winds they generated, the ship bucked and strained as its' crew fought to keep it balanced and on course. Those who weren't occupied with this were already strapped into the heavy chairs that lined the gunwales, ready to harvest the Seeds. It occurred to Gorfang and Eloy that no-one was going to notice them on deck at the moment, so they slipped out and began to scan the skies for the seeds they were here to collect.
Now that the moment was here, each felt deeply in tune with the part within himself that was linked to his God. That knot of perception was thrumming in time to the pulsing of the Gates, tense and expectant. Suddenly their awareness gave a great leap, and almost without needing to look, they knew that four points of light, brighter than the others, had been ejected from the cloud and were swirling around it. To each of them one called out across the emptiness."