----- Original Message ----- > From: Mike Adams <[email protected]> > > From what we know of what a Jump/FTL drive works and is, can you use your > STL drive to get there faster with it, or just faser to the jump point?
In most games and fiction, the performance of either kind of drive type doesn't affect the other, except perhaps in energy allocation. Aside from transit to a jump point, STL drives might be cheap or easier than a short FTL trip. For example, in some versions of Traveller, you could make a jump of less than one parsec, but it still used all the fuel for a Jump-1 and still took a week. If your trip via maneuver drives would take less than 7 days, why make a short jump, and if the time is about the same, is it worth the fuel cost (or the time to refuel from an ocean or gas giant? > Like > what you can do with a fast and slow drives on a destroyer or like? One could have a slow but fuel efficient drive for cruising and a fast but fuel hog drive for combat or emergencies. A bit like the combined diesel and gas turbine systems on some warships. Brandon _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
