RE: [VV] FTL technologies

FTL
Tier 1: 10 LY Instantaneous Space Fold (10% Mass)
Tier 2: 100 LY Artificial Wormhole Gate (5% Mass + gate)
Tier 3: 1000 LY Natural Wormhole (0% Mass)

Tier 1 is the most flexible; as long as you're outside the gravity well,
you
can go where you like in range.  It will just take a while between
jumps.
Tier 2 is a good trade-off.  You can set up your gates and get bulk
cargo
between systems without it's own service industry.
Tier 3 is the holy grail of travel; effectively unlimited travel, but no
control over where the link is.

3 levels of network and population centres: Wormhole network linked to
the
Gate network (likely travel would be
Start-wormhole-gate-gate-gate-wormhole-gate-destination).  Systems
without
their own gate would be either backwaters with limited resources, or
military fortresses that you don't want civilians to be near.

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Burton West [mailto:roger@firedrake.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 8:43 PM
> 
> See the Landis taxonomy at http://www.projectrho.com/stardrv.txt for
> some ideas.
> 
> (Also see my updating of Thomas Anderson's Voronoi/Delaunay starmap
> generator at http://firedrake.org/roger/rpg/voronoi/ .)
> 
> I like the idea of multiple FTL technologies - anyone ever play _Web
> and Starship_? - but it'll make it very hard to balance.
> 
> Roger

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