Re: FT3 DEVELOPMENT QUESTION: FTL

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Robert N Bryett <rbryett@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Another universe where this is very much so is that depicted in the
> “Antares Trilogy” (http://www.scifi-az.com/antares2.htm) by
Michael
> McCollum (which is worth reading BTW). In that universe, multiple
ships
> could jump at the same time, but quantum “scattering” during the
jump meant
> that their arrival positions could not be controlled precisely, making
> formation-keeping in jump essentially impossible.
>

I read the first two books. Not bad, but expensive as hell ($15 for a
paperback??).  :-/  Didn't continue reading as I had minis to buy.  :-D

Mk

>
> An interesting question is “do your jump-points move relative to the
> planets etc. in their solar-systems, and if so by how much?” even in
the
> outer solar-system, orbital velocities are high (Neptune’s average
is
> 5.43km/s) so if the jump-point is somehow “fixed” relative to that
orbit,
> minefields, space-ships, orbital fortresses etc. would have to
accelerate
> constantly to maintain station. This might impact on the practicality
of a
> “close defence” of jump points.
>
> In the “Mote” novels, Alderson jumps took place between points of
> "equipotential thermonuclear flux”, and it seemed to be suggested
that
> these points were somehow in fixed locations in their solar-systems,
which
> in turn would imply that they were in motion relative to anything in
orbit,
> and vice-versa.
>
>
> > On 4 Nov 2015, at 02:45, Randy Wolfmeyer <rwwolfme@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I use something similar in my gaming universe. Originally I used
stable
> point-to-point wormholes (usually placed in orbit at the trojan points
of
> gas giants for stable orbits), but I found, as many others have before
me,
> that it leads to severe choke points. The big battles are going to be
> fought at the wormholes, and it basically turns into space based siege
> warfare because if you can control the wormholes, you control all
access.
>
>