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Janus Coordinates were devised by the Janus Project for use in defining how to direct the wormhole of the Janus Gate, or any other wormhole, to a specific reality. They consist of a set of 9 numbers in 3 ordered triples in the format of:
(x1, y1, z1) by (x2, y2, z2) by (x3, y3, z3)
Reach triple forms a locus which controls the direction, shape, and distance through subspace the wormhole will travel. The three loci together direct a wormhole to a specific region of space-time within a parallel reality. Each triple is composed of two values of change from the central point of the plane inside the gate itself while the third is a measure of subspace depth.
Values x and y are measured in multiples of the gate diameter which remains consistent between gates of different sizes while the third number is a measure of subspace distortion in 1,000 cochranes.
By focusing the generation of a wormhole using three loci in subspace it is possible to control the way the wormhole opens and how deep into subspace it goes. Once opened for a particular coordinate it cannot be moved without shutting down the wormhole and starting again. It is possible to use minute changes in the triples to control where within a given reality a wormhole opens but this is difficult. Since a each reality runs parallel to the prime reality time flows in the same direction and using the same set of coordinates will roughly sync to an equivalent amount of time passing in the destination reality.
There are differences as to the rate at which time flows for each reality relative to another, which is not accounted for his this version of the coordinate system. If there is an dilation or contraction of the flow of time at the destination relative to the origin the wormhole loci will allow a smooth transition but outside of the wormhole the object will be fully integrated into the time-frame at the destination.