Re: One view Re: [VV] Vectorverse FTL
From: "Samuel Penn" <sam@b...>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:58:10 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: One view Re: [VV] Vectorverse FTL
Warbeads@aol.com said:
> 1) Natural Wormholes - if you have them you use them. They may vary
in
> usefulness [a wormhole into a sun probably has limited usefulness
Though can lead to interesting tactical situations, as in the book
'The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye'.
> into a 'Sargasso Space Sea' part of the universe,] length traveled and
Hmm, another complexity would be different rules in different
regions, as like in "Fire Upon the Deep" (the Unthinking Depths
near the centre of the galaxy where FTL is not possible and
neither is thought, the Slow Zone where FTL is not possible
but thought is, and outer zones where FTL becomes possible
as do higher intelligences.
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