Texas incident

[Derkylos]

According to a rumor on the battleship in Texas, the explosion created the jump hole to California, and that was when crime in Liberty kicked off.

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[looqas]

To OP and others wondering where Wiki leeches it's info from.

Pretty interesting to read through this Liberty back-ground history article

http://www.7crows.com/files/Freelancer%20L...%20Overview.pdf

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Flying under radar.

[Panzer]

I think I read somewhere (Was aeons ago, so dun remember exactly) that it was the Znos that sabotaged the gate.

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[Cellulanus]

I think I read somewhere (Was aeons ago, so dun remember exactly) that it was the Znos that sabotaged the gate.

Did the Xenos even exist back then?

[Das Wilde Wesen]

**We Were**

**We Tamper**

**We Break**

***Shame***

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[David Petraeus]

Wesen...

After our LABC's steamroll Rheinland, WE ARE COMING FOR YOU!

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If Pershings can be pro Marine, so can I.

[Derkylos]

I think we're talking about a period a little before the first infestation of humans...

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[johnpeter]

Way before...

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Come on! Be free!

[Lux]

500 A.S.

The Texas Incident.

The entire Texas system was decimated.

Valhalla Research scientists aboard the Dallas had begun the second phase of testing
a new, long-range jump gate that would have allowed travel beyond the confines of
the Sirius Sector -- and could have potentially opened the entire galaxy for
exploration. Unfortunately, an unforeseen concentration of dark matter along the
jump route created a feedback wave that not only destroyed the Dallas and everyone
aboard, but expelled huge masses of dark matter and radioactivity. A quarantine was
immediately erected across half the system -- not for security, this time, but for the
safety of anyone foolish enough to stray into the dangerous morass. The jump gate
itself sank into a monstrous singularity that still hangs at the edge of the Texas, an
evil, swirling eye, that casts its gaze upon the wasteland of Houston.

Quoted from the Liberty Overview, by Chris Todd. It just seems to be a wormhole of some type, probably similar to one of FL's current jump gates. There are plenty of theories in this thread, but I'm personally leaning towards the explanation that cmfalconer presented (which is that as there was no defined destination, it connected to the inside of a dark matter cloud and caused the incident). However, there are many valid ideas in here; it depends on how you want to look at it, I suppose.

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THEY TOLD ME I COULD BE ANYTHING SO I BECAME A SIGNATURE PLS HLP

[Horon]

Jump gates are pretty much just man made and controlled jumpholes. Which is why you don't see a hole or anything when the gate aint in use.

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While being quite funny, your sig was the biggest one i've ever seen so far. No more than 700x250 please. ~utrack
http://pastebin.com/SYQXBufs