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Wormholes leading to unknown K-space systems?
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Mirajane Cromwell
#1 - 2012-05-27 18:40:42 UTC
I've been trying to find some more information about wormholes and their connection to k-space and this one question on my mind irritates me as I can't figure answer to it:

Why don't any wormholes from w-space lead to new unknown k-space systems?

I mean what universal law/mechanic limits these random wormholes to open connections only to known k-space systems?

Can anyone explain this?
Wyke Mossari
Staner Industries
#2 - 2012-05-27 19:01:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Wyke Mossari
Mirajane Cromwell wrote:

I mean what universal law/mechanic limits these random wormholes to open connections only to known k-space systems?




K-Space is by definition Known, that is what the K stands for. The W-Space are unknown could equally be called U-Space (Uknown Space).
Mirajane Cromwell
#3 - 2012-05-27 19:34:52 UTC
Wyke Mossari wrote:
Mirajane Cromwell wrote:

I mean what universal law/mechanic limits these random wormholes to open connections only to known k-space systems?




K-Space is by definition Known, that is what the K stands for. The W-Space are unknown could equally be called U-Space (Uknown Space).

Perhaps my wording was bit misleading: with K-Space I meant Eve cluster and then we got the sleeper systems and between these we got the wormholes. What I meant that why aren't any wormholes from sleeper systems leading into undiscovered Eve cluster systems? The Eve cluster is limited by the stargates but there must be more systems beyond the systems we know and these natural wormholes would be the ideal way to travel from sleeper systems into those undiscovered systems (and get trapped there if you're unlucky) - these undiscovered Eve cluster systems most likely wouldn't have sleepers in them and no environments like in sleeper systems ie. they would be more like normal K-space systems.
Math'ra Hiede
Trinity's Vanguard
#4 - 2012-05-27 23:39:53 UTC
I believe theoretically there would be no problem with connecting unknown systems around the EVE Cluster via wormholes.

The issue where is it will likely never happen, due to :Game-Mechanics: and it wouldn't add much to the game, because these systems would be literally dead empty apart from rich asteroid belts.

So, theory crafting is possible, practically not so much.

Still could be an interesting story to hypothesise, get stuck in wormhole, find way out into system that is say, near known 0.0 but not gate-connected, resulting in a "Well ****"
Bl4ck Ph03n1x
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-05-31 15:56:34 UTC
Or the wormhole results from an anomaly in the New Eden Cluster. We already know that there is a few... instablities in our part of the universe. After all, a giant electromagnetic storm aroung a supermassive stargate linking two universe, where there once was a kilometers-wide wormhole isn't really the definition of stability.
Maybe the ancients screwed up something, maybe the modern gates didn't help. I guess if the precedent civilization who built the firsts stargates did not came back after thousands of years, there might be a reason.

Don't feed the trolls.
Lingfei Wen
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-05-31 19:42:35 UTC
If u want a backstory explanation, it is:
hypothesis 1: It is possible. But the universe is infinite, it is very low possibility to connect it with known space.

However, wormhole can also connect to the same w-space, is it coincident?

hypothesis 2: It is somewhere like parallel universe. Imagine we are moving in EVE space is on the XY-plane, the wormhole is connecting 2 spaces with z-direction.
Teinyhr
Ourumur
#7 - 2012-06-01 05:17:20 UTC
Mirajane Cromwel wrote:
What I meant that why aren't any wormholes from sleeper systems leading into undiscovered Eve cluster systems? The Eve cluster is limited by the stargates but there must be more systems beyond the systems we know


There are billions of stars in a galaxy, we have how many, around 5000-6000 systems we can access? So yeah, pretty sure there are stars we haven't been to.... As for why wormholes open in specific places, I think I read a long time ago a theory on something about the systems having traces of Isogen-5 or somesuch and that however affects where they form. More conspiracy minded people think there are actually devices - possibly sleeper drones themselves - causing all of them, and that seemingly random wormholes aren't all that random at all.
Qvar Dar'Zanar
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2012-06-05 18:50:57 UTC
This is explained in the Empyrean age book iirc. The Seyllin incident (whcih created the wormholes) was prepared by the ancestors to create a faster way of travel trough wormholes. It makes sense then that they made it in a way it only conects New Eden cluster systems, fact that is noted by one of the characters (dr Marcus Jror i think).

So the diferent apocrypha events (each one of them creating a shattered planet) were created in a pattern allowing travel trough wormholes between the said wormholes and New Eden systems, posibly leaving Jove systems pourposely out of the thing. Also note that apocrypha events happened both in New Eden and wormhole space systems. This makes me think that those explosions were some kind of "beacon" that connected both clusters.