RE: SPS/Pulsars

The unmanned, non-thrust pods avoid that problem by transmitting the
signal.  In-system, you aren't going to get much faster than Light
Speed, so the pod would arrive in-system, transmit the data, receive new
data and pop back out.	If it is a couple of light hours out then it
takes a couple of hours to transmit the data in, then a couple of hours
while the response and outgoing data is sent to it.  Meanwhile it's
fixing it's actual location for the trip back and re-charging the FTL. 
Maybe six hours total before it starts the return journey.  By having
multiple units, you could conceivably have one going out every hour.

If people are willing to postulate that mass 8 FTL boats are viable, I
would think that in certain systems, having a network of FTL transmitter
pods would be viable. 

Private, high security data would still be sent by courier.

--Binhan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bif Smith [mailto:bif@bifsmith.fsnet.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:37 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: SPS/Pulsars
>
> Also, if you assume that a ship has to be a certain distance from the
> gravitic influence of the star(s) before being able to jump, 
> a high thrust
> rating would be nice <G>. To send a message from centari to 
> sol (4.3LY?)
> would only require one jump. If a ship had to be 1LH(light 
> hour, 15 AU I
> think?), how long would it take a ship to cross the distance 
> from the planet
> if it was thrust 8 Vs thrust 2? (assuming they had to cross 
> 1LH from said
> planet to safe jump distance). I also like using the FT 
> universe with a
> minimum jump distance (inbound and outbound) and a  continus 
> hyperspace FTL
> jurney instead of a series of instantaneous jumps, with the 
> speed each ship
> can cover equal to half it`s thrust rating in LY`s per day 
> (which makes
> having a fast wing of thrust 6 ships useful for rapid responce).
> 
> BIF
> 
> 
>