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Bushido
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9. "RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER!"
In response to message #6
 
   It's not so much the need for it that will push someone to make it, it's someone like Corwin, Skuld or Washu doing it just to see if they can.

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Order 12: "Try to avoid
freaking the mundanes."


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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
 OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER! [View All] Bushido Dec-30-10 TOP
   RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER! mdg1 Dec-30-10 1
      RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER! Peter Eng Dec-30-10 2
          RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER! Bushido Dec-30-10 3
   RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER! ratinoxteam Jan-03-11 4
      RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER! Bushido Jan-04-11 5
   RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER! s3yang Jan-04-11 6
      RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER! Bushido Jan-04-11 7
      RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER! StClair Jan-05-11 8
     RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER! Bushido Jan-05-11 9

mdg1
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1. "RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER!"
In response to message #0
 
   Unless time travel is involved, there's evidence in the comics that a Speed Force user doesn't NEED one. :)

Mario


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Peter Eng
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2. "RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER!"
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   >Unless time travel is involved, there's evidence in the comics that a
>Speed Force user doesn't NEED one. :)

For the simple business of going through solid objects, no. But since the UF version can be used for "Road trip to Tomodachi, Niogi, and Titan in a '57 Chevy," it might come in handy for a speedster.

My concerns would be computing a path and powering everything.

Peter Eng
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Bushido
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3. "RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER!"
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   The navigation equipment could be housed in the harness holding the OVERTHRUSTER. As for power, you'd just need some sort of kinetic energy converter to take advantage of the speedster's motion.

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Order 12: "Try to avoid
freaking the mundanes."


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ratinoxteam
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4. "RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER!"
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   Speed is actually a secondary requirement for use of the oscillation overthruster. The primary requirement is power to run the colliding electron and positron beams and to focus the resulting boson stream on the material target. Buckaroo Banzai's second generation overthruster is quite efficient by any standards but even it requires a reliable power source.

As the beam focal point moves through 3rd/8th Dimensional space ahead of the traveler the matter left behind reverts to its normal state. Speed is required to remain ahead of this reversion front. A speedster may have difficulty navigating through 8th Dimensional space as his propulsion and maneuvering are based on contact with solid mater.

Not insurmountable problems by any stretch but they do mean that it's a bit more difficult than "just" strapping on an overthruster vest.

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Rat
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Bushido
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5. "RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER!"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-04-11 AT 06:32 AM (EST)
 
The overthruster is one of those things where my only knowledge of it comes from UF. I haven't been exposed to or stumbled across the source material for at least a good 50-60% of UF's characters, settings, and background. Some of it I've seen elsewhere in other fanfic but a good bit of it I only know from UF.

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Wedge Defense Force General
Order 12: "Try to avoid
freaking the mundanes."


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s3yang
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 Jan-04-11, 10:35 AM (EDT)
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6. "RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER!"
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   Y'know, as cool as the possibility sounds, it strikes me as more of a driven by necessity thing. (IE. the vehicle with the overthruster on it is disabled somehow, speedster gets crazy look in eyes, juryrigging happens). For standard day to day, or even the usual emergency stuff for a speedster there's very few things that would fall in the gap between 'run really fast' and 'get on a starship'.


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Bushido
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7. "RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER!"
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   I figured it would be something for getting backup to IPO agents or allies while they were on an interdicted planet.

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Wedge Defense Force General
Order 12: "Try to avoid
freaking the mundanes."


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StClair
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8. "RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER!"
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   "Would it help if I got out and pushed?"
"It might!"

Suppose the transmission gets wrecked, or something like that. The engine can still power the Overthruster, but can't actually move the truck; something (or someONE) else will have to take care of that...


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Bushido
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9. "RE: OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER!"
In response to message #6
 
   It's not so much the need for it that will push someone to make it, it's someone like Corwin, Skuld or Washu doing it just to see if they can.

--------
Wedge Defense Force General
Order 12: "Try to avoid
freaking the mundanes."


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