On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Jon Lang wrote: > Johannes Trimmel wrote: > > If the ship does not stay in the center of the bubble, but rather the > > bubble aligns itself that way with a timelag, while moving in the same > > direction at warp speed it has a couple of nice effects: > > Unless the ship uses some sort of reaction drive while in the bubble, > this is a moot point: SOP is for the ship to sit at rest in the center > of the bubble, and to achieve pseudo-velocity by directly moving the > bubble relative to the rest of normal space. > > Also, the bubble is constantly being generated by the ship; I have > trouble seeing it as anything but a highly unstable field that would > collapse the moment the ship stops maintaining it. This strongly > implies to me that it will remain entered on the ship at all times. >
My idea was to have the ships warpdrive connected to the bubble by something analogous to magnetism or rubberbands. The bubble will center itself around the ship but with a timelag. the ship drive builds the bubble, but the bubble continues to exist a second or two longer then the drive operates. Further moving the bubble would work by moving away from the center of the bubble. Like a segway basically, you lean/accelerate in the direction you want to go, but you go that direction way faster then your leaning/accelerating would suggest. One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Johannes Trimmel @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
