On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 8:55 PM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

The Jump Bubble explanation is the one that comes closest to both making some kind of sense, and being canonical. It's contradicted by Darrian antimatter ships and the Annic Nova. But I'm happy to eject those from canon to make things work reasonably.

I just assume that those cases use force fields to maintain an immaterial jump bubble (force fields - other than white and black globes - being beyond Imperial tech levels).

In fact, I recall positing a long time back that the reason black globes make such inefficient damage shields is that they weren't intended to be those at all. They were only intended to function as immaterial jump bubbles. :)

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