Re: Faster Than Light Travel
From: "Chris McCurry" <CMCCURR@v...>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:50:22 -0400
Subject: Re: 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...
Don't forget the Robotech version "the fold generator"
(much like a recent movie : Event Horizon)
momentarily folds space-time so that point A (travel from) and point B
(travel to) are physically the same point in space that way travel...
is
fast... you could effectively travel faster than light...
CMC