At 6:48pm, I am now in Liberty's control, and asking about where to go. I am directed to "Zurich", as Kusari stragglers delay my progress briefly. I warn the Liberty side that something is off by repeatedly saying "Attention: rift is unstable.", but I am told to resume course. By this time, I see that some people have made it through, but no one tells me to abort, so I assume people are ok with duking things out in Kepler. Of note, I do not know which exit is Kepler, as I deliberately didn't double check to keep it a surprise for myself.
At this point, the Argonaut is pathetically pleading for someone to send it a course, as the deathmatch resumes. The hacker reveal happens at around 6:57pm. There is plenty of hard fighting happening around Ames between all 3 sides, as I wait to see if anyone can provide me data. Note that at this point, if someone took it upon themselves to escort me through Shikoku, I would have followed.
At 7:23pm, the Argonaut jumps through to Colorado. By this time, most people could have respawned from the earlier fights, and use the latest information to set up an ambush there. But no one waits for the hackers.
Just a bit of feedback here, and told from the LN side of things.
The messages about the jump hole being unstable when directed to Zurich were very much too vague. It didn't actually get the intent of the message across at all, perhaps a console message saying the exits would randomly be Kepler or Copernicus? "Unstable" is a very specific thing in relation to jump holes, so if you wanted to do it outside of a console message, say that sensors indicate the two systems in local, but cannot determine which leads where? "Be advised, sensors show jump hole will lead to either copernicus or kepler." Also literally nobody was aware that it was even possible that the exits weren't going to be what was shown in game (That being Tau-23 and Zurich)
It was unclear exactly what the directions to be given to the Argonaut should have been. Were we supposed to give you grid coords which you can't see while in Kepler? I know I dropped a line about proceeding down the "cleared channel" at the argonaut.
With the hackers not being a part of the even writeup, it was assumed that they would be heading for their much closer base (to kepler and also incidentally to copernicus) in Galileo. The ambush being launched by the hackers should have probably included a console message detailing what their intent was.