Could we physically fly from system to system without the jump drive if we wanted to? Also, can we jump out in the middle of nowhere, or do we have to jump to a predefined jump path?asked by XXXGamer

Well, here's the thing. These systems are very, very far apart, so the jump gates are necessary. Otherwise you'd be flying for hundreds of years, which, I don't know if the servers are going to last that long. We'll try. As far as jumping into random locations, no, jump gates go to one place in each direction. And we're not rendering the dark matter between systems, so if we could just let you drive, I guess we could procedurally generate dark matter, which is not interesting.

Empty space, empty space, empty space, empty space.

Empty space for 30 hours until you reach the next jump system, so no, that's not gonna happen.