Zan Lynx wrote: > It sounds like a great idea to me. > > I don't know about implications but I have a couple more questions. > > The first thing I think of is, why do you want to keep it from being > used in gravity wells? It sounds like the perfect thing to use for > reaction-less thrusters to give you flying cars and other things.
I want beanstalks to be economically viable in this setting. > The next thing I wonder is about the power requirements. That will have > a huge impact on intersteller travel and the design of the ships. If it > uses a lot of power that has to be discarded as waste heat and there's > no reaction thruster to dump heat into, the ship surface is going to be > almost entirely made of white-hot fuzzy-looking fractal radiator > panels. :) Good question. How about this: instead of a hard-wired gravity-well disruption effect, the drive has two power requirements: one is used to maintain the integrity of the warp bubble, and is directly proportional to the tidal forces acting on said bubble. The other produces the drive's thrust, and is proportional to the thrust provided. The former aspect would mean that maintaining a warp bubble in a gravity well would have prohibitively high power requirements, while ships in interplanetary and interstellar space could maintain it virtually for free. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
