The Technology of Haunted Worlds is very much in line with a sort of “Hard Scifi” approach, with a few allowances for the fantastical… which are then taken to their logical extremes. Haunted Worlds is set nearly 2,000 years Post Diaspora, an unknown amount of time in the future from the present day.

Developed in 568 Pre-Diaspora by researchers at MIT, the Einstein-Rosen Bridge is a wormhole between two or more points in space. These are known commonly as Gates and by this point in the story are used for everything from power transmission to inter-stellar travel. Though, to this day, it's impossible to send any biological matter through a gate without it being heavily shielded from the radiation within.