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Well, it's really not that hard to explain;

"Well there's another ship that's equipped with a jump governor so it doesn't have to use all it's fuel each jump & doesn't therefore have to refuel each time it jumps. Ain't it something how popular those gadgets have gotten since that guy 'MM' invented them."

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On Thu, 5/19/16, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc....
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Thursday, May 19, 2016, 4:02 PM

 Yep. The
 only thing that's hard to explain about the AN is why
 every Imperial ship in the sector (and every commercial ship
 that's heard about it) isn't engaged in an all-out
 hunt for the thing. Magic tech can sometimes be reverse
 engineered, after all, and this magic might prove especially
 valuable for whichever faction grabbed it first. Think about
 it...an *entirely new way of Jumping*. Who knows; with some
 tweaking you could perhaps get the recharge time from weeks
 to hours or minutes. Or perhaps there are parts of the tech
 that you could adapt to make normal J-drives more efficient.
 Seriously, the player characters wouldn't be able to
 reach the Annic Nova through the traffic jam of other ships
 trying to grab it. I'm picturing a situation much like
 that of the Streaker in Brin's _Startide
 Rising_.
 On Thu,
 May 19, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Bruce  Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
 wrote:

 On May 19, 2016, at 2:14 PM,

 xxxxxx@comcast.net wrote:

 Hello Richard,

 If one believes in that the hydrogen is dumped

 around the ship to form a bubble that somehow

 is used to open jump space then the Annic Nova's

 jump drives have a huge problem to overcome.

 To paraphrase an out-of-date cultural reference:
 “Jump’s got 99 problems, but the Annic Nova ain't
 one”

 Dealing with a one-off artifact of an extremely higher,
 unattainable  TL is MUCH easier than dealing with the many
 consequences of the rules as stated.

 The main issue here is the unintended consequences of
 the rules. The AN is painfully simple to explain: it’s
 Clarke’s Third Law magic. 

 -- 

 Bruce Johnson

 University of Arizona

 College of Pharmacy

 Information Technology Group

 Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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