that's a pretty cool pic gabereiser.

whatever, it's crappy, but it illustrates a point :P

Gabereiser I think that would work well with a few more turrets and lighting effects.
I'd love to see that in game

ooo imagine they where large spheres made up of rings of blue energy...... oh wait, they were once :P

Besides the gates the gates that would connect between large areas of space. Gates could be built by human player at any two locations to connect them by wormhole. It could be used to decrease the time it takes to travel and make routes safer. Of course these gates could be destroyed by someone who doesn't like them there.

Yeh that would be useful, but it wouldn't really fit with the backstory and pirating is hard enough as it is.

That could be a nice mission, "go put up these gates to allow the <insert high nation official here> to warp away from the battle back to safety"

You could have a time limit and if you didn't do it, they would get killed, resulting in a faction loss (small for starters, but with more difficult missions and shorter times). If you did it, they would reward you with money/faction point gain/maybe a "hero" medal for really difficult ones (?, sounds somewhat stupid to me). Medal of Honor type of deal (No, not the video game).

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After the leader warped through, the gates would close, only staying open for a couple more seconds. Or something like that.
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