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News Talk: Commonwealth Jump Inhibitors as Aid talks commence
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Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:23:11 GMT
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Editorial
New Pacific has a duty to assist
Again the prospect of ships jumping close to inhabited planets has raised its
head. With timing that could only be described as most fortuitous, a report
from Val Central of an unknown vessel jumping directly to orbit around the
planet Darpenime comes only a week before the Commonwealth will debate the
budget allocations for galactic aid, and the thorny issue of making
sophisticated technologies available to less developed societies.
None of the
various political groupings in Val Central has been able to develop jump
inhibitor technologies of the kind that have been in use in New Pacific for
decades. Aid in the form of these kinds of systems would be in breach of the
Commonwealth’s standing policies on technology transfer, yet could save
literally millions of lives. While there is no evidence yet that the ship in
question poses a threat to the sentients on Darpenime, there is no doubt that
had there been a military intention in the move, most of the planetary defences
and system security forces would have had far too little time to respond.
While there are numerous forms of Jump Drives, employing various means of moving
from point to point without the need to travel through the intervening space,
all of these depend on the capacity to open a target point in space, creating an
exit portal from whichever alternate dimension the vessel has travelled. In the
New Pacific case, jump inhibitors were placed in orbit of most inhabited
planets, and then, over a period of almost 30 years, similar systems were placed
throughout the sector to prevent unauthorised jumps anywhere in the system.
Unknown forms of Jump technology could still open portals, but all known
technologies are currently prevented.
Even the welfare lobby itself is split
on the issue of providing these systems outside the sector to governments unable
to develop the inhibitor technology themselves. The question is about balancing
the need for developing societies to learn and grow, both technologically and
socially, an an appropriate rate, against the immediate security risk that
uncontrolled jumping poses. From the perspective of a humble citizen of the
Commonwealth not versed in the intricacies of social development and properly
maturing less developed societies, it is hard to see how a society is served by
allowing it to be open to the predations of external military powers.
Hopefully, there will not be another Andarxis Prime (where 1.2 billion were
killed in tectonic attack launched from three vessels jumping directly to deep
inside the planet) before the Commonwealth resolves the issue.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | News Talk: Fleet Denies Hostile Intentions
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| (URL) In a press conference earlier today, Alliance Fleet Admiral Thergin denied all charges of hostile intentions against the planet Darpenime. Instead, he claims it was an innocent Jump gone wrong, as such things sometimes do. "The ship in (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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| | News Talk: Jump Goes Awry
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| (URL) The Val Central Review> Jump Goes Awry Danger near Darpenime BILLUNDIA, VALYANCE. Reports are just coming in of a JumpShip suddenly appearing in orbit of the Valyancian planet Darpenime. It is not known what affects might have been suffered by (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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