The Rebel Faction

Is it that hard to figure out? The first Arbiter we saw vanish into a portal. The portal reappears and an Arbiter appears to keep it open. It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that these little guys are the ones making the portal.

Anyways, another question - with the arbiter out of the picture, in theory, what would happen to a ship if the conduit exit closed on it? Then would it be cut in half? And if this thing closes in a couple minutes, would it therefore begin closing shortly afterwards, perhaps slicing off a layer of decks from the Dread as it squeezes out?

To be honest, I'm really just testing possible ways whereby the collapse of that which is stabalizing your transport medium could cause your revision to normal space to be damaging. I mean, you'd think there'd be something.

How does the Arbiter appear to keep it open? There's no visible signs of an arbiters work, it's done with invisible manipulation of gravity. Even if it's the first ship out of the conduit, there's no reason to suggest it is at all responsible. It could be created by a station on the other side of the galaxy for all you know. It could be a natural tunneling phenomena that BDE is harnesing. Jumping to conclusions because OOC you know what an arbiter does is something I find myself taking objection to.

The way I see it this technology has no drawbacks. Sure you need the Arbiter but if as you said there just needs to be an arbiter somewhere in the conduit or the hole stays open for several minutes thats not really a drawback.

It would be kind of stupid to substitute hyperspace technology for a method that offers you the ability to destroy my entire fleets with a small starfighter's worth of weapons.

Nice try, but no.

Master Ahnk:

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It would be kind of stupid to substitute hyperspace technology for a method that offers you the ability to destroy my entire fleets with a small starfighter's worth of weapons.
Nice try, but no.

Well, to offer such an effective mode of transportation sans drawbacks always seemed against the rules - I tried to R&D a hyperdrive that went faster, far less fast than the alternate transport you guys have, and was told it was too powerful to be allowable. I thought it must surely have SOME sort of drawback, and reasoned that it must be the vulnerability of its' harbringers.

This is dangerous ground to tread... but as it is Ahnk's technology, I'm not sure that makes him (er, you) completely unbiased for the purpose of adjudicating its' effectiveness. Heir Raktus is obviously not unbiased, and I'm both mostly ignorant and actively seeking a type of result. Thus I would request that the issue perhaps be resolved by some other staff member? It's simply that I'm a mod, and I wouldn't rule on this because it would be a conflict of interest as I have a stake in the fight. As this would be a test of the effectivness of the technology that could seriously influence Ahnk's power in the future, perhaps it would not be best for him to decide it either?

I mean no offence to you, Ahnk, it's just that being able to judge in an official capacity what a weapon you designed would do when conflict arises as to its' operation seems a little off, and I still have serious doubts as to the suggested outcome of destroying the stabalizing element of a massive undertaking as cutting a hole through existance itself.

I have heard that such an issue was threshed out before, during the Opening Doors thing, but I don't know just how that would be properly interpreted here, and as it could have an obviously massive influence on the battle, and indeed the war (the potential loss of a command vessel) I think I'd preffer to wait for a judgement, if that's all right.