Lurching back into the “credible” portion of its normal hard science fiction/blood-powered cars emotional cycle, Syfy has announced that it’s teaming up with Battlestar Galactica EP David Eick for a TV adaptation of Frederik Pohl’s Gateway. The 1977 novel, which spawned five sequel books and a pair of surprisingly great text-based adventure games, centers on humanity’s discovery of an alien space station with the ability to launch semi-automated scout ships at velocities exceeding the speed of light. As much a psychological drama as a science fiction odyssey, Gateway focuses on the experiences of explorer Robinette Broadhead, who was emotionally crippled during the same interstellar expedition that made him one of the solar system’s wealthiest men.