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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 127
Message ID: 53
#53, RE: Faster Than Light
Posted by Redneck on Oct-16-01 at 02:04 AM
In response to message #52
>>That falls under the general heading of "weird-ass alien gear of
>>unknown provenance". It appears to "submerge" the ship in the
>>sub-ether, the sort of "sideband" to reality where FTL datacomm
>>lives (making a galactic Internet possible), but matter isn't supposed
>>to be able to exist there, as it's not a true parallel reality. The
>>principles behind that drive are not understood, not least because
>>only two examples have ever been seen (Sol Bianca and Unicron),
>
>Didn't the Silent Service boats - Lief Erikson(sp?), et al - also use
>it? They haven't appeared for a while though. I recall they had a
>'submerge/surface' effect.

No, that was a Zardon-style cloaking effect.

Redneck

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