Weird Harold wrote:IIRC, a resonance zone extends from the wormhole to the star, NOT to any specific planet. Mesa might well be outside the resonance zone already. With the RMN and RHN just outside the hyperlimit when they arrived, it would be folly for anyone to run in that direction.
A wormhole's resonance zone can be visualized as a cone extending from the terminus (with a comparatively small spherical hyper limit associated with the terminus itself) to a plane passing through the star and perpendicular to a line drawn from the terminus to the star. Part of the resonance zone overlaps the hyper limit.
You can visualize the resonance zone and the hyper limits as a conical magician's hat (the resonance zone) with a large ball* (the star's hyper limit) stuffed halfway into the bottom and a very small ball* (the terminus' hyper limit) stuck on the very top of the hat. The half of the large ball inside the hat represents the overlapping portions of the hyper limit and resonance zone.
Habitable planets are inside the star's hyper limit, and will also be inside the resonance zone for half a planetary year. Depending on the amount of ships a force has arriving at a system and how many ships try to run for it, the force trying to intercept the running ships may not be able to intercept all of them, even by micro-jumping around the just past the hyper limit. Hyper limits are enormous spheres, and if the ships running away both spread out and exceed the number of ships in the arriving at the system, some of them may get away.
* Both balls are spherical.