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Faster Than Light Travel

From: "Phillip E. Pournelle" <pepourne@n...>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 04:27:01 -0400
Subject: Faster Than Light Travel

	Fortunately, Full Thrust does not specify how FTL travel works
and enables
one to use different versions.	In the Star Wars universe you can jump
to
Hyperspace as soon as you clear a heavenly body.  In the Alderson (Mote
in
God's Eye) the Alderson Tram points are dependant on the mass of the two
stars.	For the Moties it turns out that the emergence point was inside
a
low mass red dwarf, for Earth it was outside the orbit of Jupiter...
	In the Babylon 5 universe you can open a jump point anywhere...
	Now according to one of the FT books, you can jump to FTL at any
time but
the closer you are to any physical object, the worse it is for you and
them...


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