' Wrote:Simple solution. An advanced gate leading to a system that is not connected to any other. Sounds like a normal jumpgate but it could be a prototype one to bypass Dark Matter clouds.
YUS! and have the gate one-way only! and add a single, solitary asteroid in the middle of the system! (100k from the gate) then watch and laugh as people get stuck inside! and they can't kill each other without a legitimate RP reason! YUS!!!
Edited to add a consturctive point...
...While, from an economic viewpoint, this makes perfect sense, and, up to 800AS, when the houses lived in peace, this would be a great idea. However, as has been shown by the Bretonia-Kusari war, and the Rheinland-Liberty tensions, this is not a feasable state of affairs. Sure, you could build gates to close allies only...so, Bretonia and Liberty get a connection? well...it's 3 jumpsfrom New York to Shikoku...and Liberty is an ally..."can we send a huge battlefleet through to open up a second front with Kusari?"...and, if Liberty says no...we're siding with Rheinland and doing it anyway, and invading Liberty on the way...massed, Sirius-wide war, anyone?