It would be rather difficult for me to wire anyone any pricing information on any of our goods, seeing as how we only believe in barter. Wire or post us an offer, and we'll see what we can do if you wish to do commerce.
Froggyliciousness
25-12-2003, 02:05
The residents of Academear are firm believers in Einsteinian relativity. As such, until you offer proof that your transportation system can indeed travel faster than the speed of light, we must keep our highly valued robots.
Instead of a 70% discount, how about an offer in donations?
It would be rather difficult for me to wire anyone any pricing information, seeing as how we only believe in barter. Wire or post us an offer, and we'll see what we can do.
Our world is 50 light-years away from yours. A Mama Phr0g class Carrier will be there in three days. Consider that your proof.
*sigh* You don't grasp the basic concepts of FTL travel, do you?
In realspace you can not go faster than c, or even AT c, unless you are like a tachyon or something.
This is why we use things such as Hyperspace or Subspace... semi-fictional theoretical layers and dimensions of the universe where the nature of physics is different, and we are not bound by c. Distance travelled is still often measured in light years or parsecs though.
These are the FTL (Faster-Than-Light) drives that I use:
Current Capsule Corporation FTL Technology:
All larger Capsule Corporation ships, also known as the FoldShips, are equipped with a Space-Fold Drive. This drive consumes a great amount of energy, one we've only been able to provide with the Chlorophusion Power Technology (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66190), to pull two points in space together, allowing instant teleportation between two points. THis is called "Space-Fold" because it is much like the analogy of drawing two points on a piece of paper, then literally bringing the two points together by folding the paper rather than drawing a line between them. Obviously this ability grows significantly harder with distance, which is why our largest, most efficient Space-Fold Drive in existance is only able to reach a maximum of 500 light years. Also, another note on the fold drive is that when it folds, a "bubble" surrounds the ship, and anything in that bubble gets sucked into the fold with it.
For long range travel, all Capsule Corporation Ships (with the exception of the production short-range fighters) are equipped with Hyperdrives. Hyperspace ((this is the Star Wars type hyperspace I am speaking of)) is a plane of easy movement that exists slightly beneath normalspace. Propells you at high speeds through a "tunnel" of hyperspace you create with energy in your ship... the better the hyperdrive the faster it goes. Hyperdrive Multipliers is a scale relative to the average corvette... usually fighters can make a coefficient of 1, hot rods can make .5, and big capital ships can make around 6... Hyperdrive Multiplier=x1 = roughly 1,000,000c/1... as a simple rule, just divide 10^6c by the multiplier number.
And finally, for communication, Subspace Transceivers allow a ship to transmitt a message through subspace, an actual plane of existance completely beneath realspace. Lightspeed is almost instantaneous here, and thus, transmissions can be almost instantaneous. The average heavy Subspace Tranmsceiver has an active range of about 5,000 light years.
Recently out of the research (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=84189&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=) stage is a mixture of the Hyperdrive and the Space Fold Drive, called the Cascading Hyperspace Fold Drive. This system is being installed on every FoldShip, and will allow mini fold jumps INSIDE hyperspace, allowing very rapid travel for FoldShips at about 10 Million C (1200 ly/hour) relative to realspace.
Our world is ~40,000 light years from Earth... so yeah, we kinda need FTL.
http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccsig.jpg (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccdex.htm)
Froggyliciousness
27-12-2003, 23:39
It would be rather difficult for me to wire anyone any pricing information on any of our goods, seeing as how we only believe in barter. Wire or post us an offer, and we'll see what we can do if you wish to do commerce.
Plans for the same type of system the other guy was talking about (space-fold) but using a antimatter-matter fusion engine for long range travel. It's much more efficient than hyperspace IMO since you can collect hydrogen from the bussard collectors on the wings and make it into deuterium by adding a neutron or convert it to anti-hydrogen or anti-deuterium..