[Lucika]

Holy ****, has anyone ever addressed this before? :O
I've replayed Enter the Dragon and the cb-ani shows the Galatea jumping from ****ING BETA AQUILAE to Sol and from there, to ****ING DENEB!
WTF? WTF? WTF?!!!

?????

[General Battuta]

Yes. FS1 was not entirely well-thought-out.

[The E]

Just watch this: http://epichadesmaneuver.ytmnd.com/

It will explain everything.

Oh, and remember the MST3K mantra.

[Thaeris]

There's also the potential of semi-stable nodes for FS1/FS2. Perhaps the node traveled was almost a "seasonal" thing, where it would be stable for only so much time before it became untraversable...

[NGTM-1R]

Or the long-running war in FS1 meant their definitions of stability were different and they were willing to accept a higher risk of lost in transit?

[Thaeris]

Maybe. I think Homesick used an idea similar to that for some of its story elements.

[-Norbert-]

If you mean a cruiser trying to jump through a previously unkown jumpnode which makes it collaps, taking the ship down with it, then yes.
But on the other hand in Homesick it was enough to blow up a corvette inside a subspace corridor to collapse the node. But if it is that easy, why did the GTVA have to use an Orion destroyer stuffed with Meson bombs to blow up the two capella nodes?

[eliex]

Because the subspace corridor wasn't fully stable to begin with . . . or perhaps I'm confused it with Transcend.

[NGTM-1R]

If you mean a cruiser trying to jump through a previously unkown jumpnode which makes it collaps, taking the ship down with it, then yes.

We don't actually know what "collapsed" means. We assume it means the node is impassible to entry attempts.

It may mean it's impassible to exit attempts.

[Colonol Dekker]

Collapsed is a pretty conclusive term. If I applied it to a tunnel or bridge it'd be final, no transit either way. I would expect the same from nodes. Anyway, nodes aren't really entities in themselves. It's a term that applies to points of congruence or intersection, weaknesses in space in this case. If you imagine a node as a hole in a brick wall, and A collapse as well. . . . . You get the idea