Quote:I personally don't believe this. I think that JGs are purely man-made and when people build JGs, the first gate is one-way only, and is set to deposit the travelling in the system that it's supposed to go to. For example, once the Hokkaido side of the Hokkaido-Chugoku JG is completed, the ships can travel through and the JG will be set to deposit them in the Chugoku system. Afterwards, they have to build the JG in the Chugoku system to make the route two-ways. JGs are probably moved away from bases, planets, and dense particle fields because they caused interference on the JGs (confirmed by the Dallas Incident, even though this happened after the construction of the first JGs. Liberty got lucky there...). JGs can only bypass asteroid and debris fields I think. However, JHs can bypass particle clouds, which may be part of the reason why they are so unstable.
Also, about the jump drives (I will call them JDs), they were only used to power the sleeper ships and capital warships larger than a Gunboat. In the intro, the sleeper ships used JDs to get to Sirius, but Atticus Rockford (the Alliance general who survived the Nomad attack on Sol) also used a JD in his cruiser (could be a battleship, but looks like a cruiser to me) to warn Sirius about the Nomads. Transports didn't have the power to use these JDs, so journeys to other systems took months. Also, with no more war, warships no longer needed JDs. When the scientists on Manhattan discovered the Daam K'Vosh library and used its technology to create TLs and JGs, JDs were no longer needed at all. It seems that only recently, warships have been testing JDs once again.
Also, I have this info on the Dallas JG Incident (I posted this a while ago in another topic, so some stuff may be irrelevant, but still interesting to know):
In NY, long before the GMG, Liberty tried to use the anomaly found in the Badlands to fuel their waning resources of H-Fuel. However, there was an accident and the project was abandoned. Maybe a couple ships blew up while trying to harness the energy from the anomaly.
In Texas, sometime in 530 A.S., Liberty tried to create a long distance jump gate to bypass the clouds of dark matter in Texas. However, when the ships attempted to pass through the dark matter in the jump gate, it malfunctioned and created a massive, system-wide explosion that decimated every planet, station, and ship in the western half of the Texas System. Jump gates are required to stop at the Kepler and Galileo systems because of the massive amount of dark matter clouds there.
Originally, before the Dark Matter Storm of 784 in Kepler, the jump gate was just required to stop at Kepler because Deep Space Engineering wanted to setup Ames Research Station. As a result, that system became a trade route between Kusari and Liberty. However, when a dark matter storm was expected in 680, Liberty created an expensive alternate route to Kusari by setting up a jump gate to Galileo and trade lanes to go around the dark matter. However, when the storms didn't arrive, Ageria Technologies and Interspace Commerce, who had lost millions in the Galileo project, used many high-ranking executives as scapegoats and fired them. Later, these executives founded the Lane Hackers. However, the Dark Matter Storm arrived 104 years late and destroyed the trade lane in the eastern half of Kepler, taking 2 or 3 transports with it. Apparently, trade lanes and jump gates don't function in dark matter clouds. Basically, Kepler was just a stopping point because of DSE wanted to setup Ames Resesarch Station, but if Liberty wanted to, they could pass Kepler. Although, if they had not seen the Dark Matter Storm coming, it would've led to another incident similar to the Dallas Jump Gate Incident of Texas. When Liberty created an alternative jump gate, they were forced to stop it at Galileo because of the dark matter clouds there. As a result, additional trade lanes had to be built to go around the clouds, which was very expensive and led to the formation of the Lane Hackers.
Btw, the California JH was probably already there before the Incident because the JH is in the North Dallas Debris Field. However, the infocard for the West Dallas Debris Field says that that field is the remains of the JG. The North and South Debris Fields are most likely the remains of large Supply Depots and Research Stations (maybe one was researching the California JH in the first place).
I posted that whole thing a while back in this thread. All that stuff about the Dalla Jump Gate Incident has been confirmed by in-game rumors too (trust me, I spent a lot of time digging up that info in bars).
Carlos Rivera: Corsair Brotherhood Pirate - Retired, shifted to Tripoli Shipyard's Research and Development engineering teams Anthony Cameron: Guild Core Bounty Hunter - Killed in Action, committed suicide after being trapped in Omicron Minor following its destruction Juan Ruiz: Outcast Ghost of Razgriz Pirate - Killed in Action, killed by the Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army during Bretonian piracy raid Michael Winchester: Liberty Security Force Agent - Missing in Action, likely killed during Rheinland espionage mission or trapped in Rheinland Space Eric McCormick: Order Pilot - Retired, shifted to planetside training of new recruits
