The Alliance had jumpdrives but nothing on the scale that jumpgates do nowadays. Hell, the new Valhalla drive developed from Valhalla 1 was meant to be far superior than the Starlancer era drives, which took years for travel while this new one took only months.
Swift, missed the part about you wanting pre-jumpgate times thingies originally, got mixed up sorry. In any case, we both seem to have pretty similar, or rather almost exactly the same idea:PSkype it is..
