[gurps] Slow warp drive setting

[Zan Lynx]

On 10/15/09 4:14 PM, Jon Lang wrote:
[snip]
> Good question.  How about this: instead of a hard-wired gravity-well
> disruption effect, the drive has two power requirements: one is used
> to maintain the integrity of the warp bubble, and is directly
> proportional to the tidal forces acting on said bubble.  The other
> produces the drive's thrust, and is proportional to the thrust
> provided.  The former aspect would mean that maintaining a warp bubble
> in a gravity well would have prohibitively high power requirements,
> while ships in interplanetary and interstellar space could maintain it
> virtually for free.

That would be slick, because then you can have military ships, scout 
ships and smuggler ships that can start using the drive early, maybe 
even while still in atmosphere, as long as they are equipped with really 
big engines.

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