Hello Craig,How do you figure out the Annic Nova's coursefrom three jumps. Since I've re-buried by FFEJTAS 1-12 book I'm pulling this from memory.The Annic Nova pops into the first systemloitering long enough for fighters to reachextreme range and pops out. There is nomention of how much time elapsed betweenthe first sighting and the second sighting whichIIRC was a 2 parsec jump. The Annic Nova loitered5 weeks and popped out of the system. Again thereis no mention of how much time elapsed between thesecond and third which IIRC is a 1 parsec jump. Likethe first sighting the Annic Nova loitered just longenough for the scouts to gather a bit of data.How do you determine a search pattern based onthree sights and information that the mystery shipappears to be jump 2 capable?IIRC the word has been passed around usingthe couriers and ships moving around the varioussystems, which is in my opinion the best option.According to the article the Annic Nova is equippedwith a J-2 drive and a J-3 drive. Everyone is searchingevery point with in J2 of the sightings and the AnnicNova engaged the J3 drive, which probably, since I'mnot looking at any maps is a guess, would be outsideof the search area.Tom RFrom: "Craig Berry" <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 4:02:24 PM
Subject: Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc....Yep. The only thing that's hard to explain about the AN is why every Imperial ship in the sector (and every commercial ship that's heard about it) isn't engaged in an all-out hunt for the thing. Magic tech can sometimes be reverse engineered, after all, and this magic might prove especially valuable for whichever faction grabbed it first. Think about it...an *entirely new way of Jumping*. Who knows; with some tweaking you could perhaps get the recharge time from weeks to hours or minutes. Or perhaps there are parts of the tech that you could adapt to make normal J-drives more efficient. Seriously, the player characters wouldn't be able to reach the Annic Nova through the traffic jam of other ships trying to grab it. I'm picturing a situation much like that of the Streaker in Brin's _Startide Rising_.On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
On May 19, 2016, at 2:14 PM, tmr0195@comcast.net wrote:
Hello Richard,
If one believes in that the hydrogen is dumpedaround the ship to form a bubble that somehow
is used to open jump space then the Annic Nova's
jump drives have a huge problem to overcome.
To paraphrase an out-of-date cultural reference: “Jump’s got 99 problems, but the Annic Nova ain't one”
Dealing with a one-off artifact of an extremely higher, unattainable TL is MUCH easier than dealing with the many consequences of the rules as stated.
The main issue here is the unintended consequences of the rules. The AN is painfully simple to explain: it’s Clarke’s Third Law magic.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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