Nice angle from CCP on this one
kudos to their team
One of the things Caroline's Star reminded me of is Arthur C. Clarke's 'Hammer of God' book.
In it, scientists develop a gigaton bomb called 'Excalibur' as mentioned in the IG Summit by Ottom Ephesianos in his thread A Search: The cursed lance.
This gigaton bomb is designed and detonated in Earth's Orbit of the sun, but on the other side of the sun. it releases a great number of microwaves designed to scatter on all solar objects, every asteroid, every snowball, rock and ice chunk, so that Scientists back on Earth can form a comprehensive light-speed based singular image of the location of all objects, based on the rate microwaves disseminate from the bomb and the rate the information is received back on earth via distance to target distance back to telescope metrics.
As such the IC Blog Horizons and Reflections: The story of Haria Haritimado is a beautiful hommage to Arthur C Clarke's work, extended through the medium of the EVE Online universe, and it's storyline based on receivers / listening posts of remote origin.
It's entirely conceivable, though, that Jove Observatories were managing something similar to the Egonics Inc. chronicle.
Hopefully it gives an insight into the whole Cartesian Temporal Co-ordinator and what scripts are prepared once the 'time' is ascertained, especially given the Femto (TED Talk Ramesh Raskar; Imaging at a trillion frames per second
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9vd4HWlVA) photography in our world today.
Way back on the old forums people briefly talked about resonance fields and time dilation as a process of indescriminate homogeny at different rates of information exchange.
Although those Jovian Observatories are capable of such homogeny, it would be a bit of a waste of the whole plot reveal in a really old novella called Forsaken Ruins. It would not be inkeeping with the slow storyline of 'The Other' makes Jamyl Sarum a pidgeon after leaving the Construct with no body theme.
On another track it's still a beautiful story, albeit the longest running "The return of the oh wait, no wait, you're kidding" plot reveal in history (sic)
Considering how many notable sci-fi storylines have been given a nod in the EVE Story, either through independant discovery or inspiration it's most likely that the Caroline's star event was obtuse to the Seylinn incident's reveal of the wormholes and more directly a massive cyno offset out of the way of the intended target
Does the Amarr Empire ingame listing still record 514 Amarrian systems in the corp sections?
just thought i'd pop in to wave some hands for the hype train
as for those 2 missing Observatories, likely polar themselves to time-sync a central observation point
