>>That's interesting, since the Wonder only has one FTL drive
>>system, a hyperspace motivator.
>
>Hmm. I thought the first time Corwin took Utena to New Avalon, they
>went by metaspace. There was the Lecture Of The Four Ways To Get past
>Light Speed.

That's true - but as Nathan points out, no special drive equipment is required for a starship to travel in metaspace. If your point of origin and your destination both have stationary metagates, all you need is a standard sublight propulsion method (ion thrusters, fusion turbines, whatever) and a communications/navigation system capable of locking onto the metaspace beacon network.

The military value in having a metaspace point generator is that you are then not dependent on the presence of metagates or the goodwill of the gates' operators.

--G.
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