Route of Ages

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In the fictional universe of the television show Andromeda, the Route of Ages is a portal in space-time, sought by many of the show's characters throughout season four (see MacGuffin). It is this portal through which Trance Gemini takes the Andromeda Ascendant and her crew. When the Andromeda passed through the Route of Ages, she arrived on planet Seefra (seemingly a future version of Tarn-Vedra), where Dylan Hunt finds out that he is a Paradine, an evolved Vedran.

The Route of Ages brought a lot of strange spatial and temporal anomalies to the Seefra system in Season 5, like a possible-future version of Dylan Hunt, or vast amounts of solar radiation to reignite the Methus suns.

In the episode The Heart of the Journey, it was revealed that the Spirit of the Abyss was in the very center of the route. The crew of the Andromeda used the Methus sun to destroy it. Once the deed was done, the Route of Ages turned into a slipstream portal, therefore united Tarn-Vedra with the Known Worlds.

The Route of Ages appears as a blue outline of a hypercube, spinning, changing, and morphing.