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==History==
 
==History==
During the so-called [[Good Years]] of the [[Star League]], Cassie DeBurke was a brilliant young professor from the [[University of Terra]] located near the [[Court of the Star League]], an authority on the faster-than-light physics theories of [[Thomas Kearny]] and [[Takayoshi Fuchida]]. On April 14th [[2614]], [[First Lord]] [[Nicholas Cameron]] appointed [[Joshua Hoshiko]] as the [[Star League]]'s [[Minister of Communications (Star League)|Minister of Communications]] with the express mission of developing a faster means of communications to aid in the rule and expansion of the already massive Star League. In February [[2615]], Hoshiko enlisted DeBurke as a member of the [[Technological Communications and Specifications Project]] to investigate possible means of FTL communications. <ref name=TSL-54>''The Star League'', pp. 54-55 "History - Economic and Scientific Advances"</ref><ref name=CS-6>''ComStar'', p .6 "History of ComStar - The Rise of Blake - Linking the Stars"</ref><ref name=ER2750-24>''Era Report: 2750'', pp. 24-25 "History and Review - Friends - Technology Ascendant"</ref>
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During the so-called [[Good Years]] of the [[Star League]], Cassie DeBurke was a brilliant young professor from the [[University of Terra]] located near the [[Court of the Star League]], an authority on the faster-than-light physics theories of [[Thomas Kearny]] and [[Takayoshi Fuchida]]. On April 14th [[2614]], [[First Lord]] [[Nicholas Cameron]] appointed [[Joshua Hoshiko]] as the [[Star League]]'s [[Minister of Communications]] with the express mission of developing a faster means of communications to aid in the rule and expansion of the already massive Star League. In February [[2615]], Hoshiko enlisted DeBurke as a member of the [[Technological Communications and Specifications Project]] to investigate possible means of FTL communications. <ref name=TSL-54>''The Star League'', pp. 54-55 "History - Economic and Scientific Advances"</ref><ref name=CS-6>''ComStar'', p .6 "History of ComStar - The Rise of Blake - Linking the Stars"</ref><ref name=ER2750-24>''Era Report: 2750'', pp. 24-25 "History and Review - Friends - Technology Ascendant"</ref>
  
 
In one obscure section of Kearny and Fuchida's papers published in [[2022]], they speculated on the possibility of creating artificial [[jump point]]s and they provided the equations for generating them. Because the energy costs would have been astronomical, the scientific community did not pursue these hypotheses any further, but DeBurke saw infinite possibilities in them. While the energy costs to send physical matter were excessively high, Professor DeBurke theorized that radio waves could also be transmitted via such jump points, their lack of mass lowering the energy requirement considerable and putting it within the range of even modest reactors.<ref name=TSL-54/><ref name=CS-6/><ref name=ER2750-24/>
 
In one obscure section of Kearny and Fuchida's papers published in [[2022]], they speculated on the possibility of creating artificial [[jump point]]s and they provided the equations for generating them. Because the energy costs would have been astronomical, the scientific community did not pursue these hypotheses any further, but DeBurke saw infinite possibilities in them. While the energy costs to send physical matter were excessively high, Professor DeBurke theorized that radio waves could also be transmitted via such jump points, their lack of mass lowering the energy requirement considerable and putting it within the range of even modest reactors.<ref name=TSL-54/><ref name=CS-6/><ref name=ER2750-24/>

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