Without them, Faster-than-Light (FTL) travel would be impossible. Any efforts to get to other systems would take decades, if not centuries, even with ‘Quantum Drives’ that can accelerate to 0.2c (20% the Speed of Light). All known spacefaring species are restricted by this limitation, with no technological alternatives to achieve FTL currently known, and so use the Jump Points. Each discovered system has at least one Jump Point, but many have multiple connections forming a network making up the known regions of the galaxy.