Hyperspace Drives

[dodike]

a few things i do remember about the lore of sirius ( might be wrong though )

- jumpgates do not create wormholes. the wormholes are present all throughout sirius. - they were also manufactured. - jumpgates only provide traffic control/safety AND stabilized travel. a natural wormhole in its normal state can damage a passing ship. - a gate allows vessels to travel unharmed.

Jump gate are not built on existing jump holes. Jump holes are naturally occurring phenomenon in Sirius, it's the randomness that makes them unsafe. Location of jump gates is carefully chosen. Jump holes where also discovered after first gates where built.

Zeb Harley described why gates are safer quite nicely.

The reasons are the objects in a starsystem.

You cannot jump through the gravity wells of suns so you have to go around them with a slower speed.

You also cannot initiate a jump close to objects with a big mass, that is the reason why the jumpgates are at a far distance to objects with a big mass like planets.

Since they connect different systems with a straight line, it also has to be made sure there is nothing interfering with this straight line. This explains why the jumpgates are exactly where they are: every other position would send you into the gravety-well of a yet unknown system's sun.

This may not be the official point of view of the Ageira-administration, but every transport-pilot of the company knows a thing or two about space-travels. After all this IS the reason why Ageira does not recommend using jumpholes! You never know if they don't send you right into the middle of a sun.

Edit:
130 - First prototype Jump Gate is tested successfully in Texas.
380 - The first Jump Hole is discovered.
http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/index.php?title=Timeline