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A Portal address is a coordinate system used by a Portal.

Summary

A Portal address is a coordinate system used by a Portal to determine the position of a target gate in the Portal Network. They are composed of a series of glyphs, which when entered in the correct order using the terminal allow the Portal to establish a wormhole with another portal at the destination.

Address format

Coordinate System (Portal) — 3D Galaxy chart with Portal coordinate system (the Y axis has a different scale)

A Portal address consists of three distinct parts: the Voxel^[1] position, the Solar System Index, and the Planet Index.

Decoding portal address

12-character portal address 40ECF8FFEFFF40ECF8FFEFFF can be decoded like:

#	glyph#1	glyphs#2-4	glyphs#5-6	glyphs#7-9	glyphs#10-12
glyphs	44	0EC0EC	F8F8	FFEFFE	FFFFFF
hex numerals	4	0EC	F8	FFE	FFF
var name	Planet Index	Solar System Index	Portal Y	Portal Z	Portal X

Portal XYZ position can be converted into Signal Booster XYZ values using bitwise operations^[2].

Valid Address Values

Portal - atlas transport error — Atlas transport error message

12-character portal addresses are used to dial within a galaxy.

Size of variables in Portal address
var name	Portal X	Portal Y	Portal Z	Solar System Index	Planet Index
Storage in bytes	3	2	3	3	1
(theoretically possible range, for unsigned integer type)	0..FFF₁₆	0..FF₁₆	0..FFF₁₆	0..FFF₁₆	0..F₁₆
range for game values ^[3]^[4]^[5]	0..FFF₁₆	0..FF₁₆	0..FFF₁₆	0..2FF₁₆	0..6

Assuming the dialing portal has been charged and neither is obstructed in any way, the wormhole will then form, allowing passage.

The galactic center ( XXXX00000000XXXX00000000 ) and an oblate spheroid ^[6] region with semiaxes a=~7 voxels, c=~3 voxels are unavailable for a portal's teleportation (possibly due to the presence of a supermassive black hole ^[7], like in real-world galaxies).

Planet Index

Planet Index is assigned to each planet/moon according to the following principles:

If we arrange celestial bodies (planets and moons) in one row according to their aphelion, the planet closest to the star will have PlanetIndex=1
Moons always have a `PlanetIndex` that is higher than their planet

All locations outside planets/moons gravity well will be having PlanetIndex=0. If this PlanetIndex or glyph 00 is used when entering portal address, Atlas Interface will correct exit point and send you to the first planet (with PlanetIndex=1).

Let's use the AGT Vytralaw 51 star system as an example. It has five planets and one moon. If you'll try to enter 003DFD6ACF8C003DFD6ACF8C as a destination address, the corrected exit point will be planet Vytralaw Boilireg with portal address 103DFD6ACF8C103DFD6ACF8C.

External Resources

Portal<->Galactic address decoder

References

[1] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel

[2] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation

[3] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/NMSCoordinateExchange/wiki/index#wiki_star_systems_-_region_-_galaxy_hierarchy

[4] ttps://redd.it/6uqqgx

[5] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/NMSPortals/comments/77ubas/a_view_on_the_shunka_void_from_outside/dop2fxa/

[6] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheroid

[7] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole

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 [[File:Portal - atlas transport error.png|thumbnail|Atlas transport error message]]
-A 12-character portal addresses are used to dial within a [[galaxy]], probably more will be  required for greater distances in future game update.
+-character portal addresses are used to dial within a [[galaxy]].
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-The galactic center ( {{Gl|XXXX00000000}} ) and an oblate spheroid <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheroid</ref> region around with  semiaxes <code>a=~7 voxels, c=~3 voxels</code> are unavailable for a portal's teleportation (possibly due to the presence of a supermassive black hole <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole</ref>, like in real-world galaxies).
 Assuming the dialing portal has been charged and neither is obstructed in any way, the wormhole will then form, allowing passage.
+The galactic center ( {{Gl|XXXX00000000}} ) and an oblate spheroid <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheroid</ref> region with  semiaxes <code>a=~7 voxels, c=~3 voxels</code> are unavailable for a portal's teleportation (possibly due to the presence of a supermassive black hole <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole</ref>, like in real-world galaxies).
 == Planet Index ==