On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:17:07 +0000 (UTC), Phil Pugliese wrote:

> What about a mis-jump?

Asked and answered, your honor:

>On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 15:12:08 -0700 (PDT), Thomas RUX <xxxxxx@comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Hello Jeff,
>>
>>> On 06/27/2020 12:45 PM Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 6. The fully-charged capacitors discharge into the Jump Coils. This causes
>>>    the field _potential_ to become an actual field that "opens" a "hole"
>>>    from normal space into the non-space called jump space. The hole almost
>>>    immediately closes, but the ship is now in jump space. The duration and
>>>    exit point of the jump are now committed; the only thing that can change
>>>    them is a failure of the field - which will destroy the ship.
>>
>>What about a miss jump?
>
>Due to misalignment of the beam and/or field generators or an error in
>energisation sequence. All of which happens before this step.

Of course, I _do_ have to admit that this answer was "fast thinking on my
feet", as I hadn't really considered the question when I wrote it
initially. However, this _is_ consistent with the initial post...

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