I'm not sure how/why its in continuous use now even though we've pointed out its a typo. Maybe its been used too much in GalNet, and now in game, that its too late to change?
It was originally Hawking's Gap (I named it after Stephen Hawking last July when the mapping team produced the galactic regional map). All regions can be found here :
Galactic Regions
A few weeks later one of the first 'official' mentions of it was made when Salomé's ship was boarded in Ceimess, and before she was silenced, CMDR Nodus Cursorius grabbed a screenshot of the convo where she claimed the Rift, Conflux, and "Hawkin's" Gap needed investigating. That incident was then recorded on GalNet shortly afterward, where again the Hawkin's Gap spelling was used.
I'm pretty sure Drew has fessed up and said it was a spelling mistake (I blame Salomé, but she was under severe stress at the time!
) . So there is no other meaning behind the name, it was just a typo made in the heat of the moment by Salomé while Patreus'
lackies were kidnapping her.
Now that its become canon, the next time the mapping team update the high-def regional map, we'll change it to Hawkin's Gap
