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Mulitple Star Systems, Subspace, and Navigation.

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topher:
I'll be the spice runner!  What boy doesn't dream of being a blockade runner in hyperspace =)

It would also be pretty bad a^^ to have some kind of weapon system that could deter subspace travel around your ship or system.

Morgul:
Actually, looking at the physics behind it, All you'd need is a large enough mass.... (Like a small moon, or a large ship). Smaller ships can use *gasp* thier subspace drives to do the same thing, however that means that it would take time to turn it off, and revert it back to being usable for subspace travel (no escape route) AND it eats up a TON of power... So... you *could* do it, but unless you know what you're doing you might be left almost defenseless with no quick way of escape. That could be bad....


...now, if you built a ship that had two subspace drives, and a LOT fo reactors, you might be able to do so, and still fight....

Also, it wouldn't block you from entering subspace... it'll just make doing so really hard, and possibly trear you apart if you try it. (You being the person entering subspace).

--Chris

fehknt:
Why use them on ships?  use them in space stations, so if a freighter drops out of subspace and gets attacked and destroyed, then while the fighters from the station intercept the pirate, the station subspace engine is turned on  to prevent the pirates from escaping.

Such a station could be a major military asset too, in a war -- subspace it into the enemy fleet deployment path, have a fleet waiting around it, and when all the enemy ships suddenly drop out of subspace around this large "mass",  not at thier destination, then the fleet waiting in ambush gets the drop on the transiting fleet and destroys them.

Or do the same thing, but with minefields, so that ships can't subspace past them.

Maybe this would be a good "experimental technology" that gets used on rare occasions in big events because of the instability, and maybe through game developments, will be perfected later.  Maybe to make it stable, it has to be much larger, so can only be used on big space stations, and is really expensive, so the only places you might find this classified item is on a military station that people simply don't have access to.  

Or something.

Morgul:
I like it. Well, subspace weaponry is a *bad* idea in general, since explosions in subspace have a nasty tendancy to create gravity ripples in normal space... and those ripples can travela  long ways before dropping into normal space, and blowing things up. (Think gravity tsunami... *shudders*)

Also, the energy required to move a large mass is.. well... exponentially larger than the mass itself. However, the energy require to make subspace travel hazardous (not impossible, mind you) isn't nearly as high. Finding a base that can subspace is rare... but they *do* exist. Fidnign a base that can keep you in normal space isn't nearly as rare. (Problem is that it has a bad habit of pulling things like metiorites and other ships towards it, like a black hole or large planet... and the radius it can keep ships from going into subspace isn't as large as one would like... (The whole square of the distance thing...)

fehknt:
is there a reason that freighters can't subspace in right next to a station?  just an accuracy issue, or is there soemthing more?

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