Re: [GZG] How fast is FTL in GZGverse?

[Doug Evans <devans@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another place you might want to go for further thoughts is the work David
Manley has done for SFSFW's Ragnarok magazine. I'm pretty sure it's all
pre-fleet book design, but worthy of another look.

An article called Tripping the Light Fantastic...
http://www.sfsfw.org/a/21/light.php

Haulin' Gas tries to inject a use for those transports...
http://www.sfsfw.org/a/18/gas.php

Complicating things further are the problems of maint that long series of
trips might entail
http://www.sfsfw.org/a/29/dockyard.php

Funny, I was just thinking I should re-up my membership to the Society.
Expensive from the US, but some of the discounts can reduce the sting.

The_Beast

TomB wrote on 05/13/2008 09:20:40 AM:

***bound by snippage***

> But I'm curious about FTL travel speed and distance. It changes a lot
> of things if you can hop from Earth to the Frontier in one jump of 15
> minutes or if it takes you 20 jumps each a week long. This makes a big
> difference to government structure and policy, to media, to military
> tactics and choices and undoubtedly to other things as well.
>
> Have you ever thought (notionally, with all the usual caveats) as to
> how you envisioned jump?


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