Spinward Flow
SOC-14 1K
Sigh.The only routes are the ones marked. Which is why an early fluff item talks about establishing a new link - not necessary with your incorrect understanding.
I hand you the correct information on a platter ... and you drop it on the floor.
Look at the map.
![jumpmap](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Ftravellermap.com%2Fapi%2Fjumpmap%3Fsector%3DSpinward%2BMarches%26hex%3D2313%26options%3D8451%26jump%3D5%26scale%3D64%26junk%3Djunk.png&hash=1fe0604503863234f1ffbc1e003ba43a)
Count the hexes.
Rhylanor is 10 parsecs away from Regina.
Tureded is 3 parsecs away from Rhylanor.
Tureded is 5 parsecs away from Dinomn and 7 parsecs away from Regina.
Tureded was a dumb idea for a shortcut across the Lanth subsector from Rhylanor to Regina.
Why? Because you can't Jump-4 from Tureded to Dinomn ... that's why!
You would have needed to make an extra jump between Tureded and Dinomn!
No, the smart play for the IISS would have been to establish a Scout Base in the Pirema system in orbit around 1 of the 2 gas giants there for easy/reliable refueling of XBoat operations without needing to bother the "natives" on Pirema (all 84 of them at TL=5 in 1105) AT ALL.
Pirema is 4 parsecs from Rhylanor and 4 parsecs from Dinomn.
Old route ... Regina to Rhylanor:
Regina -> Dinomn -> Ghandi -> Lanth -> D'Ganzio -> Ivendo -> Equus -> Rhylanor = 7 jumps
New route through Pirema ... Regina to Rhylanor:
Regina -> Dinomn -> Pirema -> Rhylanor = 3 jumps
So ... for the cost of establishing a single Scout Base to support IISS XBoat operations in the Pirema system, communication times between Regina and Rhylanor could have been cut by 57% ... but no ... the IISS was planning on building an XBoat "bridge to nowhere" with Tureded instead.
The alternative to upgrading Tureded for XBoat service would have been to establish an XBoat linkup from Regina to Inthe via Yori.
New route through Yori ... Regina to Rhylanor:
Regina -> Yori -> Inthe -> Risek -> Rhylanor = 4 jumps
Not quite as much of a reduction as using Pirema instead, but Yori has a much higher population and tech level to help sustain XBoat operations at Yori. So linking through Yori would be the "budget economics" way to bypass the "Klingon Hook" through Lanth ... while Pirema would have been the more strategic option that is 4 parsecs distant from Dinomn, Inthe, Risek, Rhylanor and Equus(!) ... truly a strategic hub link point across the Regina, Lanth and Rhylanor subsectors!
![jumpmap](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Ftravellermap.com%2Fapi%2Fjumpmap%3Fsector%3DSpinward%2BMarches%26hex%3D2314%26options%3D8451%26jump%3D4%26scale%3D64%26junk%3Djunk.png&hash=6283c64cebcb2f861ece52fa72541ee8)
I told the Inspector General of the IISS Communications Office that the Tureded plan was going to be a hideous boondoggle of a failure ... but did they listen to me? NO THEY DID NOT! I swear the "fix" was in on that deal, and the higher ups were in on it! And what did I get for blowing the whistle on the scheme? A blade and a boot from the service!
Barmaid! Get me another glass of water! It's all I can afford on my Scout benefits package after they ran me out ...
![Potable water :potable_water: 🚰](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f6b0.png)