[gurps] Slow warp drive setting

[Travis Watkins]

It would also tend to normalize travel times somewhat.
Further from gravity wells = more energy for acceleration, so if
interplanetary trips spend at least 80% on bubble maintenance,
interstellar trips should be able to accelerate much more while
between systems.(this could let interstellar become somewhat
reasonable without making interplanetary insignificant, especially if
bubble maintenance is really expensive and thrust is very cheap power
wise)

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:
> 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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