Re: Greetings and Nuclear Weapons
Daniel Harrison (skyhawk@internetoutlet.net)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 23:25:53 -0800
> >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.
>
Your referring of course to when Reinhard used Giersberg fortress to
attack Iserlohn fortress :) That was a great battle!
> 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.
I believe that was the only time I saw that maneuver although I think other
jumps were hinted at. I'd have to go through what I have of the series again and
see if there are others.
Daniel :)
