Talk:Aldnoah/@comment-178.190.51.12-20140907123142

Well, there aren't many ways to overload the Hypergate. Since it apperently contains HUGE amounts of energy, it most likely had very sturdy armor and also numerous safety functions to prevent it from overloading

-) Sabotage: Somebody tampered with the inner workings of the Hypergate energy source in order to destroy it and cut off Earth from Mars. They didn't anticipate the explosion to be THIS huge.

-) Damaged in battle by accident: During the fighting on the moon's surface the Hypergate got caught in the crossfire OR the ppl from Earth panicked and tried to nuke the Hypergate to prevent more troops from arriving (in a way, they succeeded since they would have delayed the war by 15 years by doing so). Or some idot dropped his landing castle on the Hypergate for whatever reason.

-) Inappropriate use: Somebody attemptet to transport too much mass with it, probably bypassed security protocols to do that. The gate's security function which would prevent too large objects to be transported was no longer functional and the gate could no longer handle the strain of transporting such a huge object --> BOOOOOOOOM

-) Bad luck: The Hypergate's inner structure was in bad shape and it just happened to blow up when they started the invasion. It could somewhat handle the strain of being used until the beginning of the war since they didn't transport much mass at once, but beaming all these landing castles which each have a lenght of about 2km was too much and the Hypergate went BOOOOOM