#11, RE: CTCS Covers, Part 1
Posted by Nova Floresca on Aug-01-14 at 09:54 PM
In response to message #9
>I doubt there is a natural nexus that is physically large enough to >get an entire starship, even a small one, through in one piece. As >far as anyone has ever been able to determine, there's no actual limit >to what you can bring through one as long as it fits through the door, >but then no one has ever tried dragging along, e.g., a hyperspace >motivator. Those have a tesseract inside them. That might not get >along & play well with the dimensional threshold. Might be able to do >it with a powered-down Cochrane drive, but again, it's entirely >possible that there's nowhere to go at faster-than-light speeds >anyway. It hasn't been investigated. Right, so get one of those photon torpedoes that is actually a probe, fire it straight up and see how far it gets before going "clunk!" on the ceiling, *then* worry about how to cram a functional starship through the interdimensonal mail slot. "This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."
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