Star gates

[PrimeEvil379]

So i discovered stargates and can't figure out how to use them.
I built them but... are they active in the game?

[Lithari]

What it seems to do is makes all travel between your colonies that have stargates take 2 turns regardless of the distance, when you tell it to go from system 1 to system 10, which is over 10 turns away normally, it will say 2 turns or so and it disappears for the duration of the 2 turns, so I am thinking the ships travel through subspace.

[Grogger]

What it seems to do is makes all travel between your colonies that have stargates take 2 turns regardless of the distance, when you tell it to go from system 1 to system 10, which is over 10 turns away normally, it will say 2 turns or so and it disappears for the duration of the 2 turns, so I am thinking the ships travel through subspace.

Pretty much this. Ships will find the quickest path to the destination (including time to move to and out of the gate), and a Stargate always takes 2 turns to travel through.

Note: Ships enter hyperspace when travelling through gates, and can be lost if all gates are destroyed during this time.