drop tanks, and missile magazines.
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Subject: Multi Jumping is no big deal since LBB5v1, was Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc....
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Well, it's really not that hard to explain;
"Well there's another ship that's equipped with a jump governor so it doesn't have to use all it's fuel each jump & doesn't therefore have to refuel each time it jumps. Ain't it something how popular those gadgets have gotten since that guy 'MM' invented them."
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On Thu, 5/19/16, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc....
To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2016, 4:02 PM
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 dumped
around 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To paraphrase an out-of-date cultural reference: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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