Should Traders in RP, use Jump Holes?

[Cellulanus]

My position on Jumpholes as natural objects: Insane.

Sure, phase alignment. There was a question about one or two holes. We've no idea how long a hole is phase aligned for. Perhaps a couple years at a time? Maybe this would explain them being moved around systems, for example?

I imagine, and I've no backing for this beyond the ridiculousness of the assumption of so many systems with natural wormholes, that the Jump hole network are a D'K construct. You think this is ridiculous, of course, as they had a gate system, and instructions for building such things in valhalla, but I deal with this idea by assuming that gates are a low tech or brute force substitute for holes, vinel records for cds. The supergate? Super is a key word there. Easier to build a huge low tech object to cover the great distance than the more elegant stellar needlepoint of the jumphole network.

Jump Holes may be unregulated, uncontrolled, but I imagine they're much better built, and more secure, when they're not shifting their alignment (and probably include safety measures there, as well, like, for example, failing to work when they don't work) than the crude subsitutes used by humanity, and now the nomads.

Actually, I do agree with your theory about them being a D'K construct, but not an intentional one.


I find it far more plausible that Jump Holes are actually all thats left of million year old D'K jump gates that have long since turned to dust, the rips formed in space remaining open after the actual structure that generated them is gone, further evidence that supports my theory is when you dock with a Daam'Kivosh Jump Gate in SP, it plays the same animation. (The little rotating ring things that form)


And even if you're right with your theory, no one has been monitoring or maintaining the system for around a million years and it hasn't been inactive like most D'K tech that works today, it would have been active for said million years and don't tell me that the things would be entirely stable.