Re: [OFFICIAL] Some FT background stuff (guidelines for writers)

> One thing you could do is have unmanned, very small (hard to detect)
> courier vessels. This way the transits could be made without delay
> between transits. This would make transmission effectively FTL.
> Essentially the only delay would be to power up the computers,
> calculate position, then power down the computer and make the
> next transit. Very difficult to intercept, especially if the couriers
> strayed far off the major shipping lines...

A la Traveller, the speed of transit (no matter how far) in Jumpspace 
was roughly 168 hours. (Give or take). With the expressboat courier 
system, they had a system where a ship would jump, come out of 
jumpsace, use laser, maser, meson or radio to beam the messages 
aboard to another ship ready to jump (some delay here) and then it 
would jump and do the same. Fast. And Jump drives were not small. If 
your FTL drive tech allows small drives, then what you say is 
possible. If not, then you have a harder time with the small 
undetectable ship. 

T.