Ace Dreamer Wrote:If you've got one working FTL scheme, the obvious thing to do is study it.Thats one of the reasons the Litte Big Bang Labs were moved to Nostromo. That might also be the reason why Hades is on the Limit (not only to study the limit but also FTL tech?)
Quote:Instruments that would detect an FTL emergence, which themselves operate FTL, would fit the genre.The Trekkies have their subspace sensors (with Kitten-problems).
CI will be doing experiments with IDAR (Interwave Detection And Ranging).
Other groups will most likely have similar tech.
Quote:Yes, these would be wave-tech, but you might learn useful stuff from them. Does FTL emergence or entry cause a disturbance on FTL communications would be a good question to answer. Presumably at least some ships have ways of testing which side of the Limit they're on, without just trying to go FTL.
FTL is not really a different engine in Fenspace I think... outside the Limit your "maximum speed" is just much higher.
But it might depend on which implementation of the "Wavium FTL".
Quote:If handwavium has a single underlying mechanism to its FTL drive then you might learn a lot by trying to find out how these differ and how these are the same. Hard tech instruments that show something interesting happens when you go FTL, or even cross the Limit, would be an obvious target. It is very likely that theoreticians would be working hard on trying to come up with a model that includes FTL; this includes ones on Mundane Earth. Seeing as you seem much less likely to kill yourself then FTL communications may be seen as a lower-hanging fruit. Hard tech that even twitches in response to FTL comms would be a really good start.
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