Felix junction, key aspect of the story (possible spoilers?)

Weird Harold wrote:

munroburton wrote:IIRC, there's a theory that the Torch-Twins-Felix bridges are actually a single bridge interrupted by the star SGC-902-36-G being currently between Congo and Felix.

Not sure whether that theory was put forth in textev or just on the forums.

Just on the Forums, to the best of my knowledge.

Jessyk never formally published the results of thier survey - The MA suppressed the results under penalty of death or worse ....

Nimitz

Such a report could be hidden on Mesa, filled away somewhere forgotten. While the alignment burned Mesa to hide any links, the corruption and secretly could mean things get missed.

SYED wrote:Such a report could be hidden on Mesa, filled away somewhere forgotten. While the alignment burned Mesa to hide any links, the corruption and secretly could mean things get missed.

It does not have to be hidden on Mesa - Any Jessyk Super-Cargo MA transport to Darius with A Navigation Computer will Do..

Nimitz

Nimitz1923PD wrote:

SYED wrote:Such a report could be hidden on Mesa, filled away somewhere forgotten. While the alignment burned Mesa to hide any links, the corruption and secretly could mean things get missed.

It does not have to be hidden on Mesa - Any Jessyk Super-Cargo MA transport to Darius with A Navigation Computer will Do..

Nimitz

First you have to find and identify one. Not easy. Freighters actually traveling to Darius do not roam the spaceways. Instead they only travel to and from Darius from designated shipping points. To have any chance of intercepting one, you would have to identify such a shipping point. I would suspect that they are hidden by various methods of concealing their identity all the way from hiding in plain sight on normal shipping points to being an out of the way backwater, maybe an uninhabited rock. That's not easy either.

The best way to do it would be to start tracking ships coming through the junction. But unless I am mistaken, the allies don't know what junction to watch...

Don

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And if you capture one you better be wearing your SPF 2 million sunblock.

kzt wrote:And if you capture one you better be wearing your SPF 2 million sunblock.

That repressents a very real possibility.

Don

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kzt wrote:And if you capture one you better be wearing your SPF 2 million sunblock.

Unless all MA pizza delivery boys have suicide fantasies there is a good possibility an MA messenger bot to Mesa/Visigoth/SOL(Earth) will
surrender his ship

Nimitz

Nimitz1923PD wrote:

kzt wrote:And if you capture one you better be wearing your SPF 2 million sunblock.

Unless all MA pizza delivery boys have suicide fantasies there is a good possibility an MA messenger bot to Mesa/Visigoth/SOL(Earth) will
surrender his ship

Nimitz

P.S.

Even if the MA has bred Suicidal/Homicidal Maniacs the RF Has Not!

Nimitz

The RF has very little to do with it. We are talking about whether or not the Detweiler boys can find fanatics to officer those ships. And my own guess is that they probably can...

Don

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Visagoth is really unhappy about the GA sitting by their end of the Mesa-Visagoth wormhole but doesn't really have any way to do something about it.

The rest of the RF - it is not yet known if the RF the SLN learned about includes Mannheim and Visagoth--- probably doesn't have anywhere near the force nessisary to push the GA off a very grudging access through the Visagoth-Mesa wormhole.

It is unlikely that Mannheim could do anything to move the GA off it....remember that a couple of GA BCs eat SLN SD's for breakfast.

When the Harvest Joy went through the Torch wormhole, the MSDF/Alignement crusier force was sitting there- probably weapons hot- and just killed her. It also sounded like the force was routating it's on-point/on-duty block ships through that location to catch anything comming through. Anyone could figure out that Manticore would want to explort that uncharted wormhole. The bigger question now is: Has the Alignment put something on the Alignment side of the Torch wormhole as a more perminent defense. It doesn't have to be an all-up Junction Fort type of installation, but it could be multiple smaller and very heavily armed stations similar to the forts. They could be rotated through duty schedules like the crusiers were.
There is NOTHING to suggest that the Alignment wants to take the chance that Manticore (or the GA) would try someting elce with the Torch wormhole. Ok, it vanished one ship...but...if you study it longer, perhaps there is another terminus.

After Verdant Vista became Torch there were some very through searching of all of the surviving databases and records on the planet including that very deep underground HQ complex by Ruth and company. Nothing was turned up that mentioned or hinted at a knowlege of the wormhole.
I believe the then current thinking was that either Manpower (etc) didn't know the wormhole was there, OR that it was handled as compartmented information and nobody on the planet knew about it.....the third option was that there might have been recordes or somebody on the planet that knew about the wormhole but they did not survive the rampage of the slaves killing as many of the Manpower people and destroying things when they were suddenly free and had the chance to draw A LOT of blood.