Re: [FT] FTL Travel

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From: Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk>
To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk <FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk>
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [FT] FTL Travel

>On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Samuel Penn wrote:
>> > So how do other people work FTL?

I just finished a book "Seafort's Hope" by
David Feintuch that had an interesting
FTL system.  It was called Fusing.  A 
ship would activate its Fusion drive and
ride "N" waves through space.  There
was a travel time between sytems 
(something like 18 mo. to the main
colony) and there was communication.
The Fusion drive had an 8% (I think)
error factor for every 30 (maybe, I do
not remember) light years travelled.
The ships had standard procedure to
defuse and recalclate coordinates 
during transient.  The last part of
the book had ships with only a 6%
error and aliens that were over twice
as fast in FTL as the humans