Re: FTL: ON TOPIC ADDED

Samuel Penn wrote:
> 
> In message
<Pine.OSF.3.95.970915123650.8195A-100000@ccins.camosun.bc.ca>
>	    Brian Burger <burger00@camosun.bc.ca> wrote:
> 
> > The problem I have with the 'every race has a different FTL method'
is
> > simple: laws of physics are universal.
> 
> > Unless you want to start arguing that, say, the Kra'vak radios work
on
> > different principles from, say, NAC radio tech?
> 
> What if Kra'vak are sensitive to radio? What if radio causes
> intense migraines in Kra'vak? Kra'vak would then tend not to
> use radio for communication - at least not at the frequencies
> we might consider to be 'obvious'.
> 
> Our first message of 'we come in peace' was considered to
> be an attack, so the Kra'vak retaliated. To bring in another
> thread here, the Kra'vak aren't warlike and aggressive. It's
> just that we always fire first...
> 
> (and yes, that was nicked from elsewhere, but I won't give
> the source so as not to spoil anyone who might be reading it).
> 
> Anyway, to bring it back onto this topic, there could be
> psycological or physilogical differences that make different
> FTL technologies the favoured among different races.
> 
> Maybe the fengal-warp drive is fine for humans, but the slower
> yankoofa-drive is preferred by the Jatravartids since the
> former gives them severe space sickness. They may work on
> the same principle, just differ in their implementation.
> 
> --
> Be seeing you,
> Sam.

The "downbelow station" and the "Chanur" series had different FTL drives
(all basically hyperspace).  But each race's drives had different
effects on other races.  A Chanur drive caused humans to be seasick...

Donald Hosford