My theory about Jump Gates

[BaconSoda]

Actually, I read up that a new line of Battleships in Liberty were being installed with prototype "Jump Drives" that let them create an artificial bubble around the capital ship to effectively make it 'jump' into another system.

I read this quote in vanilla SP somewhere, the Osiris was one of the ships equipped with it, whether it works is another story.

Jump Drives are far from prototypes. Travel before jump gates was done primarily by Jump Drives that moves a ship at an extreme speed for small distances. They were extremely delicate, and a malfunctioning jump drive could cause an entire ship to explode.

Jump Gates were developed by the Coalition right after the betrayal that was the Balma Treaty. They were used in tandem with cloaking devices, also developed by the Coalition, to move truckloads of small fighters and bombers within Alliance Defensive Lines and obliterate them from behind. In essence, Jump Gates have formed what Freelancer is today.

The first Jump Gates weren't nearly as powerful as the ones of Freelancer. In Starlancer, the one you encountered was only capable of opening a small worm-hole from Venus to Saturn.

After a while, the Alliance managed to develop personal jump gates onto their ships that were capable of moving a ship from planet to planet via worm-hole. It wasn't as great as Jump Gates, but they worked really well in comparison to Jump Drives, which were only capable of functioning for very small lapses of time...

As for jumpdrives, I suspect that the original ones were rather slow and required a massive ship (aka, sleeper ships) This is something my Valhalla RP story is going to visit. The new work in faster, reliable jumpdrives, etc..

Every ship is capable of being equipped with a Jump Drive. They're fun little devices that are implemented right inside the engines. Fun little things, they are. Fun little things......

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.