Why is Kepler a system?

[belarusich]

Ben, that is the sort of thing I love finding and reading, thanks. One of the older ones (at least the last two paragraphs) where DSE is Monument Engineering and Ageira is Valhalla.

Oddly enough, it seems after reading those paragraphs that they're either talking about 4 different companies or they changed their names mid-paragraph.

I meant to ask what Monument Engineering was supposed to be. I assumed by the wording of the other paragraph that Valhalla was a project within Ageira or they were two seperate companies.

It's sort of hard to tell.

/confuz

Valhalla was doing strange researches as I remember

And I think this is project, not separate company

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[Bootsiuv]

Valhalla was doing strange researches as I remember

And I think this is project, not separate company

Makes sense, and I sort of got that from reading the article, although it's wording is slightly confusing.

It still doesn't answer who Monument Engineering was....if they're DSE as Summer suggested, why does it mention DSE earlier in the same paragraph?

It appears that Monument Engineering became something else or ceased to be...

[SummerMcLovin]

Which program you used to find that??

Take a look at the Infocard Database for that.

I'm fairly sure from some stuff I've read that Valhalla was replaced with Ageira, although they did use the Valhalla-One 'tome' or whatever to create the "Liberty engine", lanes, gates etc.
At least I thought that, but this article mentioning both is weird. It might be some sort of midpoint between the original names where the current ones were added before being phased out, or inRP they were there (like GS&M in Dublin as a BMM subsidiary).

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[Bootsiuv]

At least I thought that, but this article mentioning both is weird. It might be some sort of midpoint between the original names where the current ones were added before being phased out, or inRP they were there (like GS&M in Dublin as a BMM subsidiary).

Could be...or it was just sloppy editing.

Something tells me it was the latter, as ME appears to play an important part in Kepler's development (and, presumably, Liberties' as a whole), yet I see no mention of it anywhere in the actual game.

I assume DSE was ME at some point, most likely when this story was written. Later they were changed to DSE and the story was just poorly edited.

No shock considering Microsoft was involved.

[Karst]

For the record, Chugoku, Galileo, Kepler, Magellan, Omega-5, Omega-7, Omicron Beta and Rishiri all don't have stars, and that's not counting guard systems. They're called "systems" for lack of a better term.

Of these, only Omicron Beta contains a planet....how it got there is anyone's guess.

Also

stuff

Thanks for that. Interesting stuff.

Edit: Regarding old names.....according to Atka's infocard, it's owned by "Scott pharmaceuticals". Hmm.

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[Bootsiuv]

Of these, only Omicron Beta contains a planet....how it got there is anyone's guess.

From what I've learned in my various late night musings, there is probably 400,000,000,000 to 800,000,000,000 "orphan" planets in the Milky Way alone.

It's not that far fetched.

[stardust47]

Kepler is a system because Digital Anvil have no idea what dark matter actually is.
EDIT: To clarify, neither has anyone else.

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[farmerman]

Kepler is a system because Digital Anvil have no idea what dark matter actually is.
EDIT: To clarify, neither has anyone else.

That's actually something I had been wondering about. I wonder if it's more a case of some odd clouds showing up and looking dark and the media dubs it "dark matter". Meanwhile, scientists the galaxy over are headdesking, but it catches on and all the charts then call them dark matter clouds.

At least that's how I imagine like 3/4 of stuff in Sirius goes.

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[Bootsiuv]

I've been doing a little research on the wiki.

44 A.S. - Valhalla research is formed, with backing from the Government and Military.

155 A.S. - Valhalla Research changes names to Ageira Technologies.

So Valhalla was the name of Ageira in it's early years.

I searched for Monument Engineering, and found one sentence which refers to it in the entire Wiki:

The first trade lane was established through a joint venture between Monument Engineering and Valhalla Research in the year 280 A.S.

Doesn't tell us much. It should say "joint venture between Monument Engineering and Ageira Technologies" if they changed they're name 130 years earlier....just a thought.

[AeternusDoleo]

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.

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