What Kinds of FTL?
Kaukolastan
11-10-2003, 08:41
What kinds of FTL travel are legal in NS? (Jump-gates[made or natural], hyperspace, warp, dimensional, wormholes, etc.) Anything? Or are there limitations, such as nation power or universe?
Oglethorpia
11-10-2003, 08:43
You'll see all of those on NS.
Personally, the only one i'm going to believe is Alcubierre's theory of sublight travel, for resonably-quick system-to-system travel.
Ion drives are fine with me too, but are very slow to accelerate to decent speeds.
Kaukolastan
11-10-2003, 08:45
What's Alcubierre's theory of sublight travel?
What kinds of FTL travel are legal in NS? (Jump-gates[made or natural], hyperspace, warp, dimensional, wormholes, etc.) Anything? Or are there limitations, such as nation power or universe? Legal? LOL
Kaukolastan
11-10-2003, 08:50
Legal? LOL
As in not godmoding.
Oglethorpia
11-10-2003, 08:55
What's Alcubierre's theory of sublight travel?
Alcubierre-Warp Drive. (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive)
Do a Google image search on Alcubierre to see a diagram of what the theory looks like.
i use space fold, fastest thing on NS next to Wormholes.
I agree with Ogle here. Derivatives of Alcubierre's warp drive are best, but impractical for any nation to research that starts modern tech or even near future (you need to mass produce exotic matter).
Wormholing from anywhere to one point by using quantum foam is another possibility (google for quantum foam), but you do need have got to the place you want to get to in order to have the required giant electrical field generator.
Foldspace would be legal... if there was a place to get melange here.
Foldspace would be legal... if there was a place to get melange here.melawho? CC simply uses an enormous amount of energy to draw together 2 points in space using a special dimension, and crosses betweent eh points... don't worry, i set fairness limits etc.