>Or maybe that he's really just figured out a way for the flux
>capacitor to interface with the warp fields so that he can shave a few
>microseconds per mile off of his transit time...all though, for values
>of v1=d/t, he could theoreticlly be faster then a fold drive...kinda.
>Just get where you wanna go, and then drop back to right before you
>left. Cross galaxies in negative amounts of time! Hell, if you could
>do it, you wouldn't even need an FTL drive. (tho it'd get *really*
>boring...) Specially since (IIRC) he's detian, so immortalish...

Ever read L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth? Tug One was fitted with a 'Will-Be-Was' drive that used a time machine to reduce travel time over interstellar distances. Of course, they needed another time machine just to see what was in their path (the exact temporal position got a little fuzzy so you had to make sure that there hadn't been any obstacles last week).

Designed for intergalactic jaunts, the drive was discontiued after a Tug vanished while using it. Jettero Heller's (who knows what he's talking about when it comes to fast ships (makes Red Dwarf's Ace Rimmer look like a Larda driver)) best guess was a failure of the inertial dampners, rater than a drive malfunction.

Presumably the 'Will-Be-Was' drive won't show up in UF, but it's a fun concept.

drakensisthered

So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story." - Corwin, Roger Zelazny's 'Courts of Chaos'