Keith_w wrote:Most of the wormholes mentioned, Basilic, Beowulf, Talbot etc., are at least several hours at FTL speeds away from an inhabitable system. Our solar system has a radius of 50AU or approximately 400 light minutes to the Kuiper cliff or 120 AU to the Heliopause or 1000 light minutes (1 AU=93 million miles, or the 8 minutes, 19 seconds that light takes to travel from the Sun to Earth) so this would tend to indicate to me that wormholes do not tend to form in solar systems, habitable or otherwise.
On the other hand, I always wondered why Grendalbane's location was known far and wide making it vulnerable to attack. It seems to me that if you are going to build a strategic resource out in the middle of nowhere you should a) keep the location a deep dark secret and b) protect it with defenses equivalent to those you would use on your home system. Instead, what we got was oooooh the big bad Havenites are here, lets run away and blow up our own stuff.
All of the wormholes we've seen are located in the distant reaches of solar systems, inhabited or not. The Manticore junction is one of the more distant wormholes at something like 12 light hours from the primary - a distance greater than the distance between the primary and secondary stars in the system. Most are only a few light-hours away from the star, and IIRC the Torch wormhole is abnormally close to the star at under a light-hour. For reference, Pluto is about 5.5 light hours out.
Regardless, every known junction is linked to a star and moves with the star relative to the galactic orbit the star is in rather than staying stationary while the system moves away from it at ~500,000 miles an hour. There are no starless junctions like the Starfire universe has.
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