SWM wrote:SharkHunter wrote:As soon as the MA found the wormhole essentially leading back to their more important population and fleet worlds, they had to control the system.
It is almost certainly the other way around. They discovered the Felix wormhole, traced it through the Twins and Congo, and quickly got a Mesan company to claim Congo.
No almost about it.
Torch of Freedom, Chapter 50 wrote:No one had ever encountered anything like it before, and even all these years after its discovery, the Mesan Alignment's hyper-physicists were still trying to come up with an explanation for how the "SGC-902-36-G Wormhole Anomaly" (also known as "The Twins") had happened when all generally accepted wormhole theory said it couldn't have. There were currently, Trajan had been told, at least six competing "main" hypotheses.
Obviously, no one had ever predicted that any such thing was possible. In fact, the Alignment had literally stumbled across it in the course of surveying the wormhole junction associated with the Felix System, where Trajan's task force was currently exercising. Not that the galaxy at large had any idea of that junction's existence, either. It had been discovered initially by a survey expedition backed by the "Jessyk Combine" and operating (very surreptitiously) out of Mannerheim under direct orders from the Alignment. Jessyk never shared survey information with anyone unless there was an excellent reason for it to do so, and in this case the Alignment had decided there was an excellent reason not to broadcast the Combine's discovery.
The textev is that they discovered the Felix junction when they were surveying Felix as a possible location for their arsenal planet. Then they discovered The Twins, leading their astrophysicists to utter the most important words in the history of science. That in turn led to Congo.
There isn't any direct textev as to why they planted a colony on Congo, but I don't think anyone's come up with a believable alternative.
