The Seven Gates

The Seven Gates are what separates The Medium from Skaia. In order to reach each gate, one must build upwards. It is currently unknown of the distinctions between each gate, other than that the difficulty to reach each subsequent increases.

It is feasible that one can simply float or be thrown to each gate, but Nannaquin states that in John Egbert's case it would not serve his purpose well. Apparently there is a reason why building to each gate is important, but it will not be clear until after the First Gate has been reached.

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The Seven Gates, or at least their image, is shown throughout the comic so far.

- It appears as a 'logo' of sorts for the SBURB game.

- It appears on John Egbert's calendar, as the picture for April. It surrounds the SBURB house icon in this instance.

- It appears as the loading/install screen for the SBURB beta.

- It appears on nearly all of the PHERNALIA REGISTRY deployments.

- The unprototyped KERNELSPRITE looks like it.

- It appears on the hatch of WV's laboratory.

- It appears next as the SEVEN GATES themselves, when John's KERNELSPRITE divides.

- It appears on the FUEL TANK and storage compartments of WV's laboratory.

- It appears on the package for the SBURB server CD.

- It surrounds the INCIPISHPERE whenever the INCIPISPHERE is shown

- It appears next on Rose's server CD

- It appears next as the spirograph in the door in the centre of WV's lab.

- It appears next IN SPACE, WHERE IT SHOOTS A METEOR AT THE SITE OF JADES HOUSE YEARS IN THE PAST (BUT NOT MANY) !

- The different variations of the Gates appear on Jade's flowers.

- It appears at one of Jade's many shirt symbols.

- It appears much later in the botton of the 'S' in the SkaiaNet logo

- It appears again on the side of what appears to be the SkaiaNet Building before it is UNESTABLISHED