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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 127
Message ID: 6
#6, RE: Faster Than Light
Posted by Astynax on Sep-27-01 at 11:56 PM
In response to message #5
>>>What does this mean? Two things:
>>>
>>>1) There are always exceptions to the rule,
>>
>>>2) Doc in UF is paying through the nose,
>>
>>Or, more likely, (3) the Hitchhiker's Guide author is mistaken on this
>>point, as he is on a couple of others. }:-{D
>
>Or possibly (4), the Editor in Chief hadn't standardized the tech base
>in the UF universe yet, and it didn't occur to him that such a
>thing would be really disproportionate and ought to be
>hyperdrive-equipped.
>
>Hell, even the Daytona from Hell has to have an external attachment
>the size of a bus to travel at warp speeds.
>
>*sigh* Another piece of fallout from the fact that I was also a lousy
>editor in the early nineties. :)
>
>(No, Doc, that doesn't mean I'm going to make you change it. It just
>makes me sigh, that's all. :)
>

Well, the issue is more the power generation requirements, it seems, with warp drive, so it doesn't seem it's as huge a deal as, say, warp drive existing at all is ;)

Besides, warp as it exists is good for a lot of things on smaller vessels anyway, like patrol ships <no other FTL method lets you see what's going on between departure and destination points readily, and stop if need be. So warp makes sense as, say, the propulsion of choice for police vessels>

-={(Astynax)}=-
"How'd I get sucked into this one?"