The transponder bit bugs me... You'd think after 911 someone would have said, we really shouldn't have a way of turning these things off.
Your sensor implications are true, has anyone pondered (I don't recall and I'm waiting for my ADHD / ODD / OCD child to finally passout and can't look) does trav use dedicated jump points? IE. The fabric between our space and J-Space is weakest at ... a la grange point ... so all jumps out should (barring an emergency) happen there. Or does one simply head out in any direction (typically towards the destination star) and push the button?
Derek Stanley
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> On Apr 7, 2014, at 6:31 PM, DED <> wrote:
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> DEREK STANLEY wrote:
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> >>Having been following the search for the missing jet for the past while I can't help but wonder just how daunting looking for a missing starship would be. Even if you knew the system it was in if it'd well and truly gone dark finding it would be ... Next to impossible.
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> And if you'd misjumped and precip'd out somewhere in the outer solar system. Yuck... Makes you wonder how many ships have simple gone into the well and never been heard from again.
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> Derek Stanley<<
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> I'm not so sure about the first case.
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> First off, there's the transponder. You'd have to intentionally turn it off (like the missing jet), which I don't believe free traders are going to do unless something was up.
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> Secondly, you're using TL-12 (or better) sensors versus what we've got today.
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> Thirdly, how long before the IR signature of the starship blends in with background crap.
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> Fourthly, space versus ocean. The ocean is a chaotic mix of currents and eddies, not to mention it's a difficult medium to penetrate and resolve. It's why nuclear submarines are such a popular choice to sneak nukes around on a planet.
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> Space? Nada. There are no currents, unless you want to count the solar wind and that only blows in one direction: away from the star. And there's gravity, but that's somewhat predictable and far less chaotic than ocean currents. If you know the ship's last heading, you're off to a good start.
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> The only thing that obscures your sensors are other "things", unless the star's EM output is that bad (but we compensate for that now). We're finding planets around other stars, right now. Amateur astronomers are finding asteroids in our own solar system. On a really clear night where the light pollution isn't so bad, I'll bet you can spot a satellite with just your eyes--and that's through an atmosphere.
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> A big, shiny refined metal spacecraft out in the emptiness of space is going to be easier to find with TL-12 gear than that plane.
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> A misjump is a whole nother matter, however.
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> DED
> TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
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Your sensor implications are true, has anyone pondered (I don't recall and I'm waiting for my ADHD / ODD / OCD child to finally passout and can't look) does trav use dedicated jump points? IE. The fabric between our space and J-Space is weakest at ... a la grange point ... so all jumps out should (barring an emergency) happen there. Or does one simply head out in any direction (typically towards the destination star) and push the button?
Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPad
> On Apr 7, 2014, at 6:31 PM, DED <> wrote:
>
> DEREK STANLEY wrote:
>
> >>Having been following the search for the missing jet for the past while I can't help but wonder just how daunting looking for a missing starship would be. Even if you knew the system it was in if it'd well and truly gone dark finding it would be ... Next to impossible.
>
> And if you'd misjumped and precip'd out somewhere in the outer solar system. Yuck... Makes you wonder how many ships have simple gone into the well and never been heard from again.
>
> Derek Stanley<<
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> I'm not so sure about the first case.
>
> First off, there's the transponder. You'd have to intentionally turn it off (like the missing jet), which I don't believe free traders are going to do unless something was up.
>
> Secondly, you're using TL-12 (or better) sensors versus what we've got today.
>
> Thirdly, how long before the IR signature of the starship blends in with background crap.
>
> Fourthly, space versus ocean. The ocean is a chaotic mix of currents and eddies, not to mention it's a difficult medium to penetrate and resolve. It's why nuclear submarines are such a popular choice to sneak nukes around on a planet.
>
> Space? Nada. There are no currents, unless you want to count the solar wind and that only blows in one direction: away from the star. And there's gravity, but that's somewhat predictable and far less chaotic than ocean currents. If you know the ship's last heading, you're off to a good start.
>
> The only thing that obscures your sensors are other "things", unless the star's EM output is that bad (but we compensate for that now). We're finding planets around other stars, right now. Amateur astronomers are finding asteroids in our own solar system. On a really clear night where the light pollution isn't so bad, I'll bet you can spot a satellite with just your eyes--and that's through an atmosphere.
>
> A big, shiny refined metal spacecraft out in the emptiness of space is going to be easier to find with TL-12 gear than that plane.
>
> A misjump is a whole nother matter, however.
>
> \_/
> DED
> TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
>