On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Rupert replied to me: >> If FTL sensors are limited to a few AU, interstellar FTL comms by >> anything other than courier become exceedingly expensive - with a reach >> of 20AU between each relay you'd need 13-14,000 to reach from here to >> Alpha Centauri. > > According to 3E vehicles, the weight of both FTL sensors and FTL > commo (expect for short-range coms) is linear with range, so a > few big installations are superior to many little ones. >
It's magic. Why does it have to work the way SJG said it would? (And besides, that's neither Generic nor Universal!) There's no reason you couldn't change that behavior, or add some other restriction to get you the results you wanted. -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
