The Kuryo Anomaly and the Texas Incident -Uncovered- *spoile
here is an explanation provided by a zoner on one of the bases, This explains why, not how it happened
The Ames Independent Research Station was established in 550 to study the Kuryo Anomaly in preparation for the construction of Trade Lanes by Deep Space Engineering. Jump Gates couldn't bypass this system because of the danger in traversing the dark matter clouds of the Anomaly -- a lesson painfully learned in the Texas Incident.