> >>But TNE had Virus in it, so you can't really trust it.<<
>
> As if jump drives are more plausible...
That made me laugh.
> >>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.
Yeah. I was going to get into the J-space pseudo-physics, but obviously
time ran out. You can see the leading edge of what was coming in RSB,
because jump field shape had to do with how deep into J-space is
penetrated, and the shape affects the volume of the jump field, etc. I
thought it would be pretty interesting, but that's what everyone says
about stuff that never gets published.
>
> As if jump drives are more plausible...
That made me laugh.
> >>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.
Yeah. I was going to get into the J-space pseudo-physics, but obviously
time ran out. You can see the leading edge of what was coming in RSB,
because jump field shape had to do with how deep into J-space is
penetrated, and the shape affects the volume of the jump field, etc. I
thought it would be pretty interesting, but that's what everyone says
about stuff that never gets published.