Difference between revisions of "Jump gate"
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A '''jump gate''' is device that creates a vortex into [[hyperspace]] to provide ships that lack their own [[hyperdrive#Babylon 5|jump engine]]s with a means of interstellar travel. | A '''jump gate''' is device that creates a vortex into [[hyperspace]] to provide ships that lack their own [[hyperdrive#Babylon 5|jump engine]]s with a means of interstellar travel. | ||
[[John Sheridan]] once used a jump gate as an improvised weapon to destroy a [[Shadow ship]]. With the vortex in the jump gate still open, he used the hyperdrive on his own ship -- the [[White Star]] -- to open another vortex inside the first one. This event created a massive explosion as all of the energy being used to maintain both vortexes was released at once. The actual amount of energy released by the explosion is not known, but it was sufficient to destroy the pursuing Shadow ship, and the White Star was almost unable to escape at maximum acceleration. | Jump gates are also critical to navigation through hyperspace, as each one acts as a beacon in the otherwise featureless void. Ships in hyperspace fly from beacon to beacon until they reach their destination, at which point they either use the jump gate at the destination or their own jump engines to create a vortex back into normal space. Destroying enough jump gates could isolate star systems and cripple interstellar travel. | ||
[[John Sheridan]] once used a jump gate as an improvised weapon to destroy a [[Shadow ship]]. With the vortex in the jump gate still open, he used the hyperdrive on his own ship -- the ''[[White Star]]'' -- to open another vortex inside the first one. This event created a massive explosion as all of the energy being used to maintain both vortexes was released at once. The actual amount of energy released by the explosion is not known, but it was sufficient to destroy the pursuing Shadow ship, and the ''White Star'' was almost unable to escape at maximum acceleration. | |||
[[Category: Babylon 5]] | [[Category: Babylon 5]] | ||
[[Category: B5 Technology]] | [[Category: B5 Technology]] | ||
Revision as of 17:33, 25 April 2012
A jump gate is device that creates a vortex into hyperspace to provide ships that lack their own jump engines with a means of interstellar travel.
Jump gates are also critical to navigation through hyperspace, as each one acts as a beacon in the otherwise featureless void. Ships in hyperspace fly from beacon to beacon until they reach their destination, at which point they either use the jump gate at the destination or their own jump engines to create a vortex back into normal space. Destroying enough jump gates could isolate star systems and cripple interstellar travel.
John Sheridan once used a jump gate as an improvised weapon to destroy a Shadow ship. With the vortex in the jump gate still open, he used the hyperdrive on his own ship -- the White Star -- to open another vortex inside the first one. This event created a massive explosion as all of the energy being used to maintain both vortexes was released at once. The actual amount of energy released by the explosion is not known, but it was sufficient to destroy the pursuing Shadow ship, and the White Star was almost unable to escape at maximum acceleration.