The current state of currents

Update: There is now a wiki entry for jumpdrives, which supercedes this.

I'm thinking maybe the currents broaden and slow as they reach gates, because I realized I was painting myself into a situation where you couldn't loiter around a system on the jumpspace side, and that's probably something that should be possible (albeit not fully passively; you'll need to do continuous low-level station-keeping thrust).

The idea of shields (sigh) being necessary to maintain structures in jumpspace still makes permanent installations lightly problematic (especially permanent stealth installations, since shields/fields are visible to each other), but if you locate it outside a current it's still doable. But abandoned stations and derelict ships are going to run out of fuel and disappear, not because they fall out of jumpspace but because they get harvested by voidlife for their mass. (Unless I decide there's an impervious type of mass... ceramics or something.)