RE: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

I always thought that the jump might produce a taychon pulse, detectable
from in-system. Useful for campaigns, but just PSB.

Looking at the the rules for FTL drift and the description of
jump in FB1, it appears that there are some forces at work 
that make jumping difficult to calculate (aether currents, 
slow passage of the dimentions over each other, butterfly-
effect, etc.). If you assume the jump drift described in FT2
is for the final (relativly short) jump, it could be possible
that the jump-drift multiplies (maybe even expodentially) 
with distance jumped.

So that a 1au jump may generate drift of 1-36mu. A 10au jump
may produce a 10-360mu or 1-36^10mu drift. So jumping from 
star to star might give a jump drift in au. 

The Fluff on p44 of FB1 indicates that the deeper in a gravity
well a ship is, the shorter distance it can jump. I assume 
that this also applies if the jump exit is further in the
gravity well.

It sounds as if a ship will take several jumps (4+?) out of 
a system, jump interstellar distance, and then take several
jumps back in to a system to get back down the gravity well.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan M Gill [mailto:rmgill@mindspring.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:34
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Cc: David Rodemaker
Subject: RE: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

[snip]

I'm understanding it to be that you jump into the region way beyond 
the Oort cloud and assemble your strike force. It is such a massive 
volume of space that unless the Red Force has awful operational 
security, then they aren't going to worry about getting bushwhacked. 
Once all the ships or the appointed time has come, the ships will 
jump in over the shorter jumps to the edge of the solar system in 
groups. Some final stage here (I'm bidding for the last FTL 
transition) is where the system defenders (Blue) get early warning of 
the large number of ships not scheduled for entry

So, Blue knows there are some ships out there, Red is seeing some 
energy signatures in system some are obviously sensor pickets due to 
broad range comms traffic (messages to merchant and civil ships to 
find safe harbour, news leaks, etc), some are obviously merchants, 
some are unknown, and there are likely a number of ships under EmCon 
that he can't see. Blue however see's signatures for the task force 
and once the picket's get closer, they'll be able to get a better