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Before Hobbes defection, there is a scene where Blair, Hobbes, Eisen have a video conference with the Kilrathi Prince. After the conference you see that Hobbes is distracted. I see this as a hint that Hobbes overlay-character (which was favorable to humans) was disabled during this conference.

If I remember right, Jump Buoys are there to allow communication through jump points. It is also possible that they are there that a ship can check if there isn't another ship on the other side of the point which also want's to jump to the other system, to avoid collisions. Rocker...