Re: Greetings and Nuclear Weapons
Isaac Kuo (kuo@oldbit.csc.lsu.edu)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 23:24:21 -0600 (CST)
Jerry Yen wrote:
>From: Graeme Lennon
>>This is, of course, presuming that they don't have some crazy warp
>>ability. Ah well. I actually like the way LoGH just ignored the whole FTL
>>issue, rather than trying to explain it with some bizarre technobabble and
>>just blowing our suspension of disbelief.
>I've only seen ships move at sub-light speed in LoGH.
Relatively early in the second series, we see that they acheive
FTL travel by "warping", like folding in Macross. There's some
technobabble about how it can be a risky operation trying to
operate multiple warp modules at once. It's slightly implied
that the safe limit of how large a vehicle can be warped limits
the size of the warships.
The vehicle pops out of space in the original location, and some
time later pops into space in the new location, with a detectable
gravitational distortion preceding the "popin" and a dangerous
backwash in the immediate area. It's not clear whether or not
time passes in the vehicle during the transit.
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