fine, spoil my fun

Actually some theories..
-Attacked by criminals in a vital area. Blew up from the vital area being hit, most likely taking criminals with it
-A battleship tried to cram itself into the jump gate and caused it to blow up
-It self destructed
-It was faulty
-A freighter hit it sideways and got stuck, creating a clog that got so big it blew up the gate and everything clogging it
-A piece of space rock hit it and knocked it off course from the other link causing a ship to appear right in the jump gate, causing a violent explosion
-Ageria didnt like it and pressed their big red shiny button
-There used to be a sun there and the jump gate got pulled into it and they both blew up causing massive amounts of radiation to be flung around
-Nothing happened, there was no jump gate. Ageria or some other company made it look like there was

if the last one happend, how do you explain the massive radiation clouds and debris fields?

Theories to explain the last one
-The radiation has always been there, debris from manufacturing
-Ageria screwed something up and caused that, and blamed that a jump gate exploded to cause it

After reading this thread, my IQ has gone down severly...

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Ageria didnt like it and pressed their big red shiny button

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lol
or some simple goverment conspiracy to coverup military projects that faled..

argh.. im never gonna get paid.. goodbye a million credits..

Rumor from the Ames Research Station in the Kepler system.

dark matter eh? well Ive never heard of dark matter but hey sounds like it doesnt go well with jump gates....

"This doesnt taste like water..."

'Dark Matter' was 'discovered' when mathematicians decided to try and calculate the mass of the universe. They discovered that in order for thier 'conclusion' to be corect thier had to be matter which is currently undetected, which they called Dark Matter. I'm not sure of what it is beyond that point, only that its all theoretical based on mathematical equations.

Attack, Engage, Destroy, Survive

Edited by - Kheiron on 31-10-2003 12:22:02

Gathered from various rumors and some quantum mechanics on my part:

Ageira builds Jump gate from Texas to Hudson (I think)

However, due to the relatively new technology in building these gates, either Ageira or DSE miscalculated the jump path.

So basically:
In theory it should have done this:

A-------------------------B

However, due to some miscalculations, it ended up doing this:

A----(Dark Matter)-----B

Which caused some kind of overload in the gate and the thing went kablooie.
Immediately afterward, Ageira redid the jumpgate to Hudson, learning something about Dark matter clouds in the process.

by jove i think he's got it

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Edited by - {AR}X-Treme on 31-10-2003 20:58:00

Based on the positoining of the debris in the map and comparing it to other gates it would most likely have went to the california system. Or it could be a system that isnt accessable anymore due to the accident. Maybe the California/New York jump gates were really supposed to be Texas/California but after the texas gate exploded they just realigned it for new york.

I have to wonder if instead of connecting to another active jumpgate the system opened up right in the middle of a darkmatter cloud and the wormhole funneled the dark matter into the texas system. Kinda like if you tapped into an underground river while digging a tunnel. Radiation frying controls and the components breaking down unable to disconnect the wormhole once it opened. The resulting massive explosion pushed the dark matter away from the gate. After a few hundred years the gravity of the darkmatter collected it back together and all that was left was alot of debris and 2 dark matter clouds.

Yes I know this is just a game but a good story that can draw out your imagination is a great thing to have.


Edited by - Tomar_McGregor on 01-11-2003 08:41:39

my brain hurts
your confusing me
and where is this so called jump gate that blew up (as in its former location)

ouch

To the east of all the trade lanes. You can't really miss it, it's a large field of radioactive green stuff. There's also a massive chunk of the gate floating somewhere, but I can't really be bothered to post its exact location. (read: too lazy)