Re: FT3 DEVELOPMENT QUESTION: FTL

In Jack Campbell's "Lost Fleet" series there are two forms of 
interstellar jumping:

Jump points - I can't remember off the top of my head if the ships have 
a jump drive or not, but hyperspace can only be entred at certain points

in a system and these points will each lead to only one destination. 
Transit can take days to weeks with only some relation to physical
distance.

Hypernet - ships with an appropriate hypernet key can enter the hypernet

system through gates and jump to any other system on the hypernet. 
Transit is very rapid.

Oh, and then there's this one from "Bill the Galactic Hero" to consider:

      Bloater Drive[edit
     
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on=edit&section=4>]

The standard ways of circumventing relativity in 1950s and 1960s science

fiction werehyperspace 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_%28science_fiction%29>,subspac
e <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_%28science_fiction%29>and 
spacewarp. Harrison's contribution was the "Bloater Drive". This 
enlarges the gaps between the atoms of the ship until it spans the 
distance to the destination, whereupon the atoms are moved back together

again, reconstituting the ship at its previous size but in the new 
location. An occasional side-effect is that the occupants see a planet 
drifting, in miniature, through the hull.

On 01/11/2015 23:01, Hugh Fisher wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 04:49:57 +1100, Jon Tuffley <jon@gzg.com> wrote:
>
>> Continuing the very useful discussion on FTL, I'm going to get my 
>> long pointy stick out once more and prod the ListMind Collective 
>> again to keep things going…..
>>
>> How many SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT styles/concepts of FTL travel can we

>> come up with between us from SF movies, TV and literature?
>>
>
> There's the "hyper limit" modifier such as Honor Harrington and
Cherryh
> Union/Alliance, where trying to enter hyperspace too close to a star
or
> decent sized celestial object either doesn't work or has disastrous
> consequences.
>
> In the Star Wars books by Timothy Zahn (I think) and the Polity
setting
> by Neal Asher there are FTL disruptor things which cause ships to drop
> into normal space.
>
>
> I think of FTL as a plot device to get all the ships in one spot so 
> they can
> shoot at each other. From that viewpoint, the important aspects of FTL

> for a
> tabletop game are how and where you can arrive or depart, and with 
> what level
> of precision. (From an earlier question, yes I've played several games

> where
> one side sets up and the other jumps in.)
>
> Do people fight battles in hyperspace? It happens in Honor Harrington
and
> Babylon 5.
>