On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 3:41 AM, J. Michael Looney
<mlooney@megawatts.com> wrote:
I'm just plain out saying that the anti gravity field that makes both M drives and J drives possible doesn't work on an object over 7.5K dTon in volume.
That's cool.
I use a variant of that, IMTU. I posit that the larger the volume being displaced through jump space, the shorter the maximum possible jump range will be. There is a lot of (never articulated) high-end math involved in why, but the end result is that the jump insertion point can only enclose a maximum volume of Size X for a jump range of Distance Y.
Thus, long range ships tend to be small . . . and only Jump-1 Mains tend to see bulk frieghters. Which neatly explains the importance of Jump-1 Mains. :)
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