RE: [ft] CowleyCon '99

>orders are written specifying drive warmup. the ship continues on its
>existing course that turn, and cannot use any offensive weapons. the
>following turn, the orders specify jumping, and the ship moves half its
>existing course and then vanishes. now, what happens if, in the firing
>phase of the first turn, after warmup but before jump, the ship takes a
>threshold check and loses the ftl drive? this didn't actually 
>happen but is was close.

I would say that you can't jump, or worse the ship fooms as the
FTL goes critical after being hit with all that potential energy
bottled up.

-= tim jones =-