But those are not planets and you can't get there from space and it doesnt lack air and its too magical and doesnt fit in a technical pack and is too complicated and im too lazy and pages are too expensive and symbols are too hard to find and its too dangerous and and and and because!!!
Make sure the server and client builds match. The latest Tekkit version is 1.1.5, IIRC.
Also, make sure you're running Tekkit.jar, not minecraft_server.jar.
I found a wiki at http://hexxit.wikia.com, it provides quite a bit of info.
As for the "never seen before armor", that's Tribal, Thief and Warrior armor. They all give special bonuses, like Tribal giving a Jump Bonus, or Thief a speed bonus. Both of those also give Night Vision.
Warrior armor gives you a lot of damage resistance from a lot of different damage types, IIRC.
The pack also simply wasn't meant to hold 30 players all exploring around. You need to prepare the Hexxit server for proper launch by pre-generating a pretty big area. Even so, the pack was meant to hold about 20 players at most.
There's a way around the Energy Loss. You'll need two Turtles: A regular Turtle, and a Wrench Turtle.
First, fill up Redstone Energy Cells (Makeshift Energy Cells would probably work better due to the smaller amount of energy, if they can retain energy when wrenched).
Next, have a Wrench Turtle dismantle the cell in order to have it retain its energy. Have the Wrench Turtle put the cell into an Item Tesseract.
Lastly, put another Item Tesseract and a Chest down near the Quarry. Have a regular Turtle retrieve the Energy Cell from the Chest, and have it place the cell down next to the Quarry. Free lossless energy transport.
Exploit-ish? Oh yes.