The Ludgate

The Ludgate Gate is the Northernmost gate edge in the Outer Wall of Semper, and is one of eight Gates in the wall.

It is a large single piece door of Magnesium Nano-composite metal gate built directly into the Wall. It opens by dropping down like a drawbridge. It is topped by the same ramparts and crenellated parapet as the rest of the wall. When the gate drops the rampart remains.

From the outside the gate is almost undetectable, and is designed to be so. This gate is to only be used in the direst of circumstances when all other means of escape or evacuation have been exhausted.

It opens directly onto the road running around Semper, and is directly opposite a disguised track that leads into the nearby countryside before it reaches a larger road. This allows for three different escape routes for citizens to take in the event of evacuation.

The gate is dropped once a year to test the mechanism, and is usually done under the greatest of secrecy and when a diversion is created elsewhere to keep attention away from it. It takes less than two seconds to drop and can be raised back up within another five. The gate hits the floor, rests and is then withdrawn. The whole exercise takes less than ten seconds.

The area behind the gate in the Exterior is heavy camouflaged from above with netting and panels designed to disrupt any observation of any means.