(07-02-2018, 11:13 AM)itsune9tl Wrote: I'm saying that West coast America got hit by the initial Bow Wave from the Space fold jump. There is a reason Why the Zentradi were shocked by the fortress performing a fold maneuver so close to the planets surface. It wasn't just possible damage to the ship, nor the sizable piece of real estate they took with them.
The Fold took all displaced mass that and drew a line in the direction of the fold. This created an amplified wave greater than the suddenly missing island could account for, and it had a direction it was moving in.
I was under the impression that their shock was due to the audacity of performing a space fold from so deep within a planet's gravity well... which we saw the results of shortly thereafter.
Also, I was under the impression that dimensional folds have little to no effect on local space, save for the arrival and departure points. Are you saying that there was a gravity fluctuation along the path of the fold? Because if this is a thing, then that would make dimensional folds a very hazardous method of FTL that would necessitate relatively short jumps with painstakingly calculated paths that avoid any and all possible celestial objects in their way.