Flume

The Flume is an interdimensional teleportation device that was created to provide swift interstellar and interdimensional transport. They were created by Luxa Glaceau, Holly Glaceau's mother.

The Flumes are SuperSkye's take on the idea of interdimensional transport, a concept which is common in sci-fi.

Importance
The Flumes, after being created by Luxa, allowed Megacorp to come to Skaylia from a distant dimension. They also brought Nes to Skaylia after his home planet, Third Earth, encountered and tampered with interdimensional frequencies and sent him through the Flumes.

Flumes are used throughout the game to transport the player to and from all of the game's planets. At the beginning of each level, the player comes through a Flume to enter the level. Similarly, at a level's end, the player enters a new Flume to move to the next level.

Appearance
A Flume turns blue if it can be entered, and, correspondingly, an orange Flume cannot be entered but only exited. This has led them to be compared to the Portal, an element from a game bearing the same name. Like the Flume, a Portal could be entered and exited to warp a person through space.

Trivia
•The name "flume" may come from the Latin word "flumen", which is translated to "river". This could be because, like rivers join two bodies of water, the Flumes connect two points in space that can be accessed instantly.

•In the book series Pendragon, the characters use a tunnel called a flume to get from place to place. It is also notable that the Flumes described in the books are represented by a star, while the Flume in SuperSkye has a star on its front. This is pure coincidence and the series has no connection to SuperSkye.

•After the beta version of SuperSkye, Flumes got a distinctive change in their looks.

•The Super Mario World hack The Second Reality Project, a device similar to the Flume called a Gate is used to transport Mario through dimensions. It looks similar to the beta version of the Flume in all that it is missing the plate on the front that bears the star symbol.