Dave Nilsen wrote:
>>Maybe I'm not following what you're saying, but my recollection of the
'Sup? 9 jump ship is that it is rated Jump 6 by itself to allow it to
perform, say, Jump 3 carrying something its same size, Jump 1 with
something five times its size, etc. If a jump tug had only Jump 1 for its
base hull it would have no excess jump performance to carry anything.<<
Yes, you're right. [...Slaps self in forehead...] Forget it.
>>The "jump grid" bag in Supp 9 would not have been necessary in TNE, as we
dispensed with the notion that the jump "grid" was an external physical
envelope. We would have just talked about how the slung cargo would have
to be tucked in in sufficiently close to the carrier's structure to fit
within the jump field.<<
I'd forgotten about that, but then you get into arguments of how far the
jump field extends out from the ship and the location of the jump drive
within the ship would be important as one would need to make sure the
entire ship was covered. IMTU, I stuck with the grid.
>>But TNE had Virus in it, so you can't really trust it.<<
As if jump drives are more plausible...
\_/
DED
>>Maybe I'm not following what you're saying, but my recollection of the
'Sup? 9 jump ship is that it is rated Jump 6 by itself to allow it to
perform, say, Jump 3 carrying something its same size, Jump 1 with
something five times its size, etc. If a jump tug had only Jump 1 for its
base hull it would have no excess jump performance to carry anything.<<
Yes, you're right. [...Slaps self in forehead...] Forget it.
>>The "jump grid" bag in Supp 9 would not have been necessary in TNE, as we
dispensed with the notion that the jump "grid" was an external physical
envelope. We would have just talked about how the slung cargo would have
to be tucked in in sufficiently close to the carrier's structure to fit
within the jump field.<<
I'd forgotten about that, but then you get into arguments of how far the
jump field extends out from the ship and the location of the jump drive
within the ship would be important as one would need to make sure the
entire ship was covered. IMTU, I stuck with the grid.
>>But TNE had Virus in it, so you can't really trust it.<<
As if jump drives are more plausible...
\_/
DED