[Space] Space Strategy: FTL Bottlenecks

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

The junction is defended against an invasion force coming through it by massive battlestations closely placed around it. The junction is big by many settings' standards - a light-second across - but in setting almost all shipboard weapons have effective ranges longer than that. This was assisted by the wormhole having a detailed tonnage limitation mechanism so that you couldn't cram an entire sixth-of-a-cubic-lightsecond of warships through at once (Though that would be a bit less than it sounds like because the space drive forces a relatively large spacing between craft).

Actually, you could, but the wormhole would then be unusable for many hours so you'd better damned well win if you did that because there was no retreat.