Intergalactic Summit

"... i want to smell dark matter... to feel the warmth of supernova ripple across my skin..."
- Unknown


With a supernova centered in the bulk of their space and the visibility of their star gates recently limited to a few systems, one can only question if the majority of Jovian society has fallen into ruin? The Society of Conscious Thought, Genolution, or others have not commented openly or publicly nor are they likely to do so.

Is it possible that the Jove have simply done away with star gates? Cyano and Jump-Linked towers are a possible reason for the lack of jump gates but do now allow for the free flow of industrial and commercial traffic that a jump gate presents.

Are the Jove under some kind of direct threat? Is this unknown menace the type that warrants quarantine within so many light-years? While their society is under the strain of the Jovian Disease, such a sudden collapse would not go unnoticed. The Jove, in addition to technological links, have financial links, as well as (albeit limited), social links within the rest of the cluster.

Many of us owe the Jove a debt of gratitude for allowing us to experience the stars in a way not before possible. As a capsulier intimately absorbed into the sensory apparatus of a ship, I do often enjoy the scent of dark matter as I fly through a nebula. If we there is anything we could do to alleviate the Jovian's current dilemma, personally, I wouldn't mind helping, even if were in some small way.

Personally, I would say no, they aren't.

why? you may ask. well, the answer is simple.
Someone turned off those stargates.

I doubt it was the empires. Given their lust for new technologies.

How do you know there's even any of them left to tell us about whatever's happening their end?

Fact is, we don't know. They had gone full isolationist for quite a while and nobody knows about whatever they are doing now. Last thing we do know is that they are suffering from the Jovian Disease, a genetic disorder they accidentally introduced into their genome, and are dying from it. Other than that, who knows? They might still be alive, there might all be dead, and we won't know unless we somehow reactivated their stargate systems and find out, or they send us a transmission. Neither is happening and probably won't be happening for the next decade or two. For now, we can only speculate.

The only proof that we have is that a secluded race has decided to become more secluded..... That's hardly reason to believe they're gone...

Agreed, in that there are many possibilities. Still, it is important to ask relevent questions in order to arrive at a the truth.

Off topic, and I'll spare you the truisms about asking the right questions.

Still... at this point, and due to the recent nature of things, I am in a wait-and-see frame of mind.

In reference to the opening post, for the billionth time, the explosion is not in Jove space.

I did look a bit closer and the supernova was precisesly East of the Jovian Empire. While the supernova was not directly in Jovian Space, and it would be wrong to directly link the two events without more information.

As the Jove stargate network is effectively gone, the supernova occuring in what is known as Polaris (no gate network) space, it is hard to not link the two events.

In a similar thread, twenty thousand years ago, was not the Eve Gate itself the source of Gate-Network collapse within the New Eden galaxy? It has been observed that the recent celestial event may be a similar event but on a much smaller scale with the event affecting only Jovian space due to the said event's area of effect. I understand in regions closer in, there has been increased wormhole activity in regions such as, Paragon Falls or the Kalevala Expanse (Drone space).

The Jove gave the cluster the Capsule which you use with great regularity. I suspect they are plotting terrible things to your body and whichever fleet you signed up in. Be very wary of your own Capsule.