Re: Space Geography

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Tamsin Piper <
Tamsin@tamsinpiper.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Another consideration to be accounted for is for the detection to be
> communicated by the sensor arrays to sentient recipients, which is
> likely to be at light speed. Unmanned sensor arrays are likely to be
> positioned such that there aren't (m)any blind spots in system, with
> built in redundancy (multiple sensor arrays with overlapping scan
> areas and communication lines to the sentient presence).
> [...]
>
> As others have said, the chances are that you will be detected
> regardless of where you "jump in". The real issue is how quickly the
> detection will occur. Once in system both sides will be limited by
> the speed of light in determining where your/their forces are - as
> you approach your target the information on both sides will get
> closer to "real time location".
>

This, of course, presumes you do not muddy the waters with FTL
communications. If the findings that were announced at CERN yesterday do
indeed pan out (
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/faster-than-li
ght-travel-discovered-slow-down-folks/),
then you get to muck up future tech with FTL comms (not to mention FTL
travel - in system or no depends on genre and PSB). That can get messy
quickly.

Mk