CmdrRook wrote:I'd presume some level of scheduling, but I also don't know what significant events occur prior/during transit at a gate. If Battletech lended anything to the process, the energy signature from the destination point is the first sign of incoming traffic. Prior scheduling would be the only thing to tell you it's friendly traffic (omitting the Battletech invention of Hyperlink communications) and anything else would be an emergency at best, hostility at worst, both of which requiring mobilization and action of frames and ships.
"Unscheduled offworld activation" is a cause for concern in Stargate SG-1, and their protocol of securing the gate; establishing contact with travellers; then restoring contol of the gate's systems, would be how I'd handle things on my station.
I hadn't thought of a schedule but that makes perfect sense. So a scheduled connection could provide the opportunity for a surprise attack or ambush, but unscheduled connections would probably be meet with full defenses. Also you probably wouldn't send any ships through an unscheduled connection. There's no point in risking your assets when there are too many unknowns.
Of course connections would probably shut down if it was coming from a known hostile world. No SU controlled Transit Gate is going to want to connect with Celiel.
Shades_Corvid wrote:Though two way transmission is possible with gates without a full wormhole.
I thought that only fully formed connections could transmit data. Is there info about this somewhere in the forum? If this is true then it would be much easier to spread the word about a newly captured gate. But if this isn't the case, then it would still take a significant amount of time to decimate the news to thousands of gates.
Though I guess in the short term you really only need to inform the next transit gate that the newly hostile world is scheduled to connect with. So as soon as you knew the gate was hostile, you would immediately try to start a connection with that friendly gate, before the hostile gate can start a connection. At the same time you would be planning to send TEM forces to retake the hostile gate.
So I guess it really comes down to hold organized the SU is for dealing with newly hostile gates.
Most of these assumptions are about how the SU would deal with unscheduled gate connections. I think that the FC might not have a schedule for connections, or at least not as strict a schedule as the SU. This could give the SU or Ijad an advantage if they are trying a surprise attack against a FC controlled gate. Maybe FC tend to be on defense for connections, but that probably varies from gate to gate.
I'm not really sure how the Ijad would deal with unscheduled connections. I have a hard time seeing the Ijad having gate connection schedules, since they believe strongly in not closely interaction with those they "can not touch".