Why is Kepler a system?

[Crackpunch]

That doesn't mean there's a star, it just means there's a lightsource in the data, like that "star" in OMiner

Have you not been there?

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[Reid]

I have been there, and I've tried selecting the bright orb in the nebulae, but since I can't, I'm assuming it's just a lightsource and not an actual star

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[Cryer Pharmaceuticals!]

hey sports fans, I believe this is relevant, or at least semi interesting if you are a massive loser who loves FL's vanilla lore like me. it's off IGN, who apparently ran lore articles as some sort of proto-hype-train before release

I'm on my phone so just pretend this bit below is all nicely formatted like a quote:

The region between Colorado and Shikoku has always been a somewhat mysterious zone. The early Kusari explorer Matsuo first stumbled upon it during his great survey of that sector of space during the first century after arrival. He named it Kuryo, or "black cloud." It eventually came to be known as the Kuryo anomaly.

It was vast, more than 10 light years in crosswise, although very thin -- less than a typical star system's radius. Fortunately it was not entirely continuous, and subsequent explorers eventually established a relatively safe route through it. The clouds gradually drifted with time, requiring constant updating of the routes. Periodically, strange electrical storms would rage, sometimes for years. When they died out, the clouds had usually moved significantly, requiring an entirely new mapping to be done. One area remained consistently free of the clouds. It came to be known as the Kepler system, even though there really wasn't a system, just a hole in the clouds. When the great jump-gate routes were constructed at the end of the third century, this was the path chosen. Deep Space Engineering and Ageira were well aware of the problematic nature of building Gates that crossed dark matter zones. They had the potential to seriously disrupt and even destroy an object attempting to displace that space. The Kuryo anomaly would have to be bypassed the old and slow way. The Gates to Shikoku and Colorado were constructed between 290-300, and opened in 301. The trade route was linked.

The second phase of construction would not come for another 150 years. With the introduction of trade lanes, Kusari hoped to finally traverse the anomaly with secure, high-speed technology. Deep Space Engineering was brought in. It was a challenging task, as the clouds moved over time unpredictably. The Ames Research Station was established in 550 to study and map the movements of the clouds for 20 years. Their data, fed into Monument Engineering (ME) computers, created a reasonably accurate forecast of potential cloud movements and their potential outcome. The trade-lane routes would need to be periodically moved. This was left to a squadron of heavy lifters, run by ME. The station, deemed independent, also houses a collection of Zoners, who eventually took over the general maintenance, leaving the trade lane operations to the ME crew. The two factions make an odd group, and there is little social mixing.

It was decided to construct a second insurance trade-lane route that would cross the anomaly at a second location. Surveying commenced immediately, with a new route mapped within two years. Monument engineering crews rushed in and built the new route in record time. A second remote monitoring station was set up in Galileo, as the new system was called. Plans were made to dismantle the trade rings in Kepler at the first sign of danger. The long wait began. After the 50-year limit came and went, a few Valhalla programmers murmured that maybe there had been a flaw in the program. The eventual fallout was tremendous at Valhalla, forcing several executives and an elite development team out. This would become part of the historical core of the lane hackers, along with the California scanner group. The technical experts, very knowledgeable of the Kuryo anomaly, soon planned their revenge. Within 10 years, mysteriously accurate attacks on trade lane shipping began to occur in Kepler and Galileo, matching the accuracy of the California area attacks. Ageira suspected that the programmers had left with more than a severance check. The investigation continues to this day, but has so far been unsuccessful in locating the lane hacker bases. There are rumors that the Lane Hackers have somehow figured out how to traverse the gap between Kepler and Galileo, an extremely dangerous route given the historical precedent of the Texas incident.

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[Bootsiuv]

Well, that was interesting. Thanks for the info. It makes sense when you learn old jumpgate tech could only jump six light years.

[Yoba2895]

Chugoku does not have stars as well.

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[Bootsiuv]

Yah....apparently I should have paid more attention....a better question may have been "why are random spaces with no star called systems"....or something to that effect.

[SummerMcLovin]

Ben, that is the sort of thing I love finding and reading, thanks. One of the older ones (at least the last two paragraphs) where DSE is Monument Engineering and Ageira is Valhalla.

Magellan and/or Cortez should logically have been established for the same reasons as Bretonia is farther from Liberty if I recall correctly.

I guess Magellan was settled because it was at the edge of the Barrier (and at the correct distance for a gate), and I would think the choice of Cortez had something to do with the paradise-like planet in the system...

In the case of Omega-5 and Chukogu (among other systems), they will have been found and settled because of the jumphole connections. Omega-5 is the central jump-point of the Omegas hence the Corsair-Hessian feud over it, and I guess the Imperial Guards managed to flee tactically withdraw there after the Samura overthrow, where they became the Blood Dragons.

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[farmerman]

That would definitely be one reason to choose Cortez. Given the choice between another nowhere system like Magellan or one with a fancy water planet, I think they would choose the latter.

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[Bootsiuv]

Ben, that is the sort of thing I love finding and reading, thanks. One of the older ones (at least the last two paragraphs) where DSE is Monument Engineering and Ageira is Valhalla.

Oddly enough, it seems after reading those paragraphs that they're either talking about 4 different companies or they changed their names mid-paragraph.

I meant to ask what Monument Engineering was supposed to be. I assumed by the wording of the other paragraph that Valhalla was a project within Ageira or they were two seperate companies.

It's sort of hard to tell.

/confuz

[belarusich]

For the sake of completeness, here is the rumor related to the limited distances:

This system only exists as a way point on the Jump Gate routes because the distance between Hamburg and Texas was longer than the six-light-year limit of early Jump Gates. Before the Trade Lanes were built, the asteroids caused constant problems with shipping.
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This html resource is a rumor spoken by:
Zoners Freeport 2 Bartender Jim Millam [Zoners] (Freeport 2, Bering [Iw01_02_Base])
Zoners Elijah Martin [Zoners] (Freeport 2, Bering [Iw01_02_Base])
Zoners Jeff Zabor [Zoners] (Freeport 2, Bering [Iw01_02_Base])
Zoners Mitchell Wood [Zoners] (Freeport 2, Bering [Iw01_02_Base])

Magellan and/or Cortez should logically have been established for the same reasons as Bretonia is farther from Liberty if I recall correctly.

Which program you used to find that??

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