On 6/30/2020 11:54 PM, Rupert Boleyn wrote:
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>
> On 01Jul2020 1811, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
> list) wrote:
>> It's not a question of YTU or MTU & I never, ever said that NO fuel is
>> needed at all.
>>
>> The question is HOW MUCH fuel does a starship need to have avail AFTER
>> it enters J-space.
>>
>> The whole idea of d-tanks indicates that it isn't very much at all.
>>
>> You seem to be saying that IF the capacitors were charged w/o using
>> fuel, then it needs a full load of fuel in order to make a jump.
>> OTOH, if the ship uses a whole lot of fuel before the jump then it
>> doesn't need as much.
>>
>> It just doesn't make any sense to require the same amount of fuel in
>> both instances.
> Not so. If you take the LLB 2 1981 and HG view that jump drives need
> power from the power plant, then the black globe charging the capacitors
> replaces this power requirement. Therefore, it has nothing to do with
> the jump fuel requirement, which remains the same no matter what.
> Problem solved.
>

.... yyyyyeah.

IMO, we're getting into the sort of thing that SJG's MURPHY'S RULES
(remember those?) used to mock, where (e.g.) players can only move in
two dimensions and are thus incapable of jumping or climbing, and can be
utterly thwarted by low fences and waist-high walls.  Because The Rules
(or the video game code) Say So, and accurately modeling reality is
either a lesser concern or not at all.

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