HB of CJ wrote:Now I am totally confused here. Normal condition. What exactly came first? The planet Congo or the worm hole? And...does the Congo, (Torch) wormhole go directly to Mesa? Does the Alliance know this? I really need a timeline.
Somehow I think I have missed a story or perhaps a book here.
Also, for what it is not worth, I still think there is another warp junction from Mesa that only Mesa knows about....and it goes to their secret ship building base. Just me. HB of CJ (old confused coot)
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To expand on what Grashtel said: There is a four-terminus junction in a system called Felix. One terminus goes to The Twins, which is the red dwarf Grashtel mentioned, and then on to Congo. (Congo, by the way, is probably a reference to "King Leopold's Congo," if you want to track the reference down). A second terminus of Felix is at Darius, the Alignment's arsenal planet. Where the other two go hasn't been mentioned. The only people who know any of this are in the MAlign as well as a few people on Mannerheim, who only know part of it, and are treating it as a state secret.
Visigoth has a two terminus junction, one of which goes to Mesa. We don't know anything beyond that, including the exact route from Mesa to Darius.
David has said that there are no systems with more than one wormhole terminus, The Twins being the glaring exception. Also, there are no hyper bridges between junctions.
It depends on what you mean by "discovered." Did anyone know the star was there? For a long time. Given that it's an F5 (really bright),
we would know the star is there - at least if Weber and Flint were actually using current survey data.
The system, however, was first surveyed by a ship finding out where the second wormhole terminus at The Twins went; they named the planet Verdant Vista. Then it was claimed by Mesa's transtellar Mesa Pharmaceuticals. The survey happened approximately 200 years prior to story time, that is, in the early 1700s PD. When Mesa Pharmaceuticals acquired the planet is unknown, but it was some time after then.
Crown of Slaves deals with how the Ballroom got possession and renamed it Torch.