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The Mithridates Star System is situated in the Black Forest Zone of the Milky Way, halfway between the Carina and Centaurus arms of the galaxy. It is deep in FAR space and is the only known location of a "wormhole nexus". The wormhole nexus is naturally occurring and the nexus has six different end termini .....MORE HERE SOON
Wormhole transit fees are low but the enormity of space traffic moving through the various warp points controlled by the Mithridates System generates enormous revenues for the local government. In turn, it has built up a huge military force to prevent invasion by various interstellar powers. This includes the following capital warships:
100 superdreadnoughts
30 dreadnoughts
300 battlecruisers, destroyers, frigates, and other associated military craft
This oversized navy makes the Mithridates System the most heavily armed star system in the Milky Way Galaxy. To maintain its neutrality, the government has willingly paid to build and maintain this enormous naval force. Mithridates also supports an immense merchant marine of several thousand cargo and passenger ships, which also adds vast amounts of money to the government's coffers.
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THE JUNCTION
The central nexus is the key to any wormhole junction. Ships can transit from the central nexus to any secondary terminus and from any secondary terminus to the central nexus, but they cannot transit directly from one secondary terminus to another. Economically, that gives Mithridates a tremendous advantage, even against someone who might control two or more of the Junction's termini; militarily, the reverse was true. There is an inviolable ceiling on the maximum tonnage which can transit a wormhole junction terminus simultaneously. In Mithridates' case, it lies in the region of two hundred million tons, which sets the upper limit on any assault wave the MRN can dispatch to any single Junction terminus. Yet each use of a given terminus-to-terminus route creates a "transit window"—a temporary destabilization of that route for a period proportionate to the square of the mass making transit. A single four-million-ton freighter's transit window is a barely twenty-five seconds, but a two-hundred-million-ton assault wave would shut down its route for over seventeen hours, during which it could neither receive reinforcements nor retreat whence it had come. Which meant, of course, that if an attacker chose to use a large assault wave, he'd better be absolutely certain that wave was nasty enough to win. But if the attacker controlled more than a single secondary terminus, he could send the same tonnage to the central nexus through each of them without worrying about transit windows, since none would use exactly the same route. Choreographing such an assault would require meticulous planning and synchronization—not an easy matter for fleets hundreds of light-years apart—yet if it could be pulled off, it would allow an attack in such strength that no conceivable fortifications could stop it. Not even Mithridates'. Even though the Junction fortresses account for almost thirty percent of the MRN's budget, the security—or at least neutrality—of the Junction's other termini simply had to be guaranteed.