(06-28-2013, 04:03 AM)Ktayn Wrote: From what I can remember, there is a rumor that mentions early jumpgates having a specified distance limit. As a result, there are those intermediate systems between houses. With that in mind, it may just be the midpoint? Also, didn't the dark matter arrive after stuff was already built there?
No, according to what I've read, there had to be an interruption in the Jump Gate path through that system because of the dark matter present in that system. Jump Gates cannot cross a dark matter zone - doing so tends to have explosive effects (see the Dallas incident in Texas). Kepler was the first path, then Galileo was built up when it was assumed that Kepler would be obliterated by a Dark Matter storm.
Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.
Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.
