#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. > >*** > >Redneck > >Red wizard needs money badly... >www.wlpcomics.com >White Lightning Productions - don't tell the Pope 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 "I wish I was reaper, culling lost souls. I wish I could cast them into deep and lonely holes."
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