' Wrote:Dark matter is a recent discovery, where darkness in and out of itself is an actual thing, with properties of its own. Matter, in essentials, justl like we have found out that light does the same thing. We call it the photon.
Uhh...what? No, "dark matter" is, as the name suggests, matter that is dark. It is usually thought to be hydrogen or helium clouds that are not in the vicinity of a star, and is thought to comprise the vast majority of the universe's mass. In Freelancer, the developers decided it would be malign, and that it would erode ships, and destabilize artificial wormholes (jump gates). this is what happened in the Texas disaster, and why the Gallileo 'lanes were built (a storm was thought to be headed towards kepler...tho how dark matter forms a "storm" in space is beyond me...).
Nothing to do with darkness taking physical form...