Re: Multi Jumping is no big deal since LBB5v1, was Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc.... Phil Pugliese 20 May 2016 14:46 UTC
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, not really, at least as far as the *effect* of a J-governor. Before the intro of the 'governor a ship had to use the same amount of fuel no matter how far it jumped & that amount of fuel was dictated by it's J-rating, ie: a J4 ship needed to use enough fuel for a J4 no matter how far it jumped. After the governor's intro, the ship only used the amount of fuel required for a jump of that distance, ie: a J4 ship w/ enough fuel for J4 would only use 1/4 for a J1, 1/2 for a J2, 3/4 for a J3, & all of it for a J4. CT LBB5 HGv2 may not have mentioned the items you detail but that doesn't mean to me that they were "done away with". It just means that they weren't mentioned. p.s. Capacitors/accumulators *were* still detailed in the section on Black Globes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 5/19/16, xxxxxx@comcast.net <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote: Subject: Re: Multi Jumping is no big deal since LBB5v1, was Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc.... To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> Date: Thursday, May 19, 2016, 8:27 PM Evening PDT Phil, CT LBB 5 HG2 1980 did away with the jump governor, the special high capacity accumulators required to use drop tanks, and missile magazines. Tom R From: "Phil Pugliese (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 7:39:55 PM Subject: Multi Jumping is no big deal since LBB5v1, was Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc.... This email was sent from yahoo.com which does not allow forwarding of emails via email lists. Therefore the sender's email address (xxxxxx@yahoo.com) has been replaced with a dummy one. The original message follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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." -------------------------------------------- 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