RE: [VV] Vectorverse was Re: NAC - American style

Wormhole mechanics certainly create defensible positions and "choke
points"
where trade and military would concentrate.

I accidentally deleted some of the messages that started this thread,
but
the following decisions need to be made:

FTL Travel: ?? (Wormhole, Point-to-Point FTL, Lightspeed drive, Wave
Motion
Engine, etc)

N-Space Travel: Vector

Colonisation method: ?? (Cryosleep, generation ships, prison transport,
wealthy businessmen, greedy corporations)

Galactic Economy: ?? (by this I mean what is the most valuable resource?
Water?	Oxygen? Unobtainium?)

What is the imperative for expansion: ?? (population pressure, lack of
resources, interspecies war)

What level of automation will starships have: ?? (FB standard 1 man per
mass, 5,000 men to man a destroyer, etc).

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laserlight [mailto:laserlight@quixnet.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:25 PM

> One thing we do need, though, is FTL mechanism.  I'd say jump points,
> sort of like Alderson points except covering a larger volume.  It's
> most efficient to arrive at the center but you can modify your arrival
> position off to one side by quite a bit -- enough that a fixed station
> can't guard the entire arrival aread.

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