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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 127
Message ID: 12
#12, RE: Faster Than Light
Posted by TRB on Oct-01-01 at 11:02 PM
In response to message #0

>
>(6) CROSSING METHODS
>
>Don't. Really, don't.
>
>The only two hyperluminal systems which can work together without some
>kind of massive explosion are hyperspace from within metaspace, -in
>that order.- Hyperdrive can be used as an emergency way to get out of
>metaspace if one becomes lost. Attempting to enter metaspace while in
>hyperspace, or attempting to enter either while in warp, will result
>in a spectacular light show which you won't be alive to appreciate.
>
>In -theory- it is possible to engage warp while in hyperspace, but no
>computer is sensitive enough to configure the warp fields finely
>enough to prevent the explosive phenomenon observed on test vessels
>nicknamed the 'Technicolor Yawn.' Essentially, bringing warp engines
>online in hyperspace drops the ship back into realspace as a
>combination of energy, gases, and extremely tiny fragments of
>spaceship. Obviously, this is not something you want to try unless
>being reduced to your component atoms would improve your situation.
>
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Well, there goes my half-baked idea that ultrawarp was warp drive in hyperspace. Too bad it doesn't work, you'd be movin' out -and- generally undetectable.
Question: Does UF recognize the ST:TNG convention that Warp 10 is infinite speed, causing one to occupy all points in the universe simultaneously, (and thus causing the annoying "increasing decimalization of Warp 9 becomes faster by many orders of magnitude" phenomenon) or is it a different scale altogether?

TRB

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