Klonor
22-11-2003, 23:42
While travel into Sub-Space is enabled via ship-borne devices (called “subspace engines”, “cores”, or “motivators”), it’s long been known that Sub-Space itself is a naturally-occuring phenomena.
In simple terms, Sub-Space is an N-Dimensional tunnel between one point in the universe and another. A vessel can travel through this tunnel in a matter of minutes, making a journey that might otherwise take decades or even centuries at light speed.
A Jump-Drive causes a ship to vibrate in multiple dimensions until it's modulations are in perfect synchronization with the Sub-Space Continuum. A vortex opens, creating an aperture from an infinitesimally small point in the Cosmos, enabling the vessel to cross the Sub-Space threshold.
There are essentially two modes of Sub-Space travel, inter-system and intra-system.
Intra-system Sub-Space travel is nearly instantaneous, and requires relatively little energy input to enable. Most of Klonor's advanced fighters are equipped with intra-system jump motivators, allowing them to travel at will within a given star system. There is little or no restriction on the beginning and end points of such a Sub-Space “hop,” except that they be in the same star system.
Inter-system travel via Sub-Space is another matter entirely. The end points of inter-system Sub-Space jumps are limited to the naturally-occuring focal points of Sub-Space, also known as “nodes.” These nodes were initially discovered by Prof. J. Whiteside (see McPherson’s Multipaedia (2557 ed.), pp 1132-1140). Only between two Sub-Space nodes is the fabric of Sub-Space strong enough to support inter-system travel. The defense of the physical locations surrounding such nodes proved to be a central part of the 14-year Terran-Vasudan War.
In addition, such massive amounts of energy input are required to open an inter-system node, that only the largest fusion pile reactors in existence are able to sustain it. As a result, inter-system Sub-Space travel is almost exclusively made by the largest vessels in production. This fact has made the Orion-class destroyer/carriers a pivotal and crucial part to Klonor's tactical forces during the T-V War.
Needless to say, the ability to deliver ships of war to nearly any pinpointed destination has forever revolutionized the concepts and long-standing tenants of space combat.
Currently Located Jump-Nodes
http://67.18.37.17/595/43/upload/p705983.jpg
In simple terms, Sub-Space is an N-Dimensional tunnel between one point in the universe and another. A vessel can travel through this tunnel in a matter of minutes, making a journey that might otherwise take decades or even centuries at light speed.
A Jump-Drive causes a ship to vibrate in multiple dimensions until it's modulations are in perfect synchronization with the Sub-Space Continuum. A vortex opens, creating an aperture from an infinitesimally small point in the Cosmos, enabling the vessel to cross the Sub-Space threshold.
There are essentially two modes of Sub-Space travel, inter-system and intra-system.
Intra-system Sub-Space travel is nearly instantaneous, and requires relatively little energy input to enable. Most of Klonor's advanced fighters are equipped with intra-system jump motivators, allowing them to travel at will within a given star system. There is little or no restriction on the beginning and end points of such a Sub-Space “hop,” except that they be in the same star system.
Inter-system travel via Sub-Space is another matter entirely. The end points of inter-system Sub-Space jumps are limited to the naturally-occuring focal points of Sub-Space, also known as “nodes.” These nodes were initially discovered by Prof. J. Whiteside (see McPherson’s Multipaedia (2557 ed.), pp 1132-1140). Only between two Sub-Space nodes is the fabric of Sub-Space strong enough to support inter-system travel. The defense of the physical locations surrounding such nodes proved to be a central part of the 14-year Terran-Vasudan War.
In addition, such massive amounts of energy input are required to open an inter-system node, that only the largest fusion pile reactors in existence are able to sustain it. As a result, inter-system Sub-Space travel is almost exclusively made by the largest vessels in production. This fact has made the Orion-class destroyer/carriers a pivotal and crucial part to Klonor's tactical forces during the T-V War.
Needless to say, the ability to deliver ships of war to nearly any pinpointed destination has forever revolutionized the concepts and long-standing tenants of space combat.
Currently Located Jump-Nodes
http://67.18.37.17/595/43/upload/p705983.jpg