Threepony Wrote:Makes it possible for most of the setting authors to have a wilderness roadtrip. Instead of having an all-out starship, theoretically an RV could fly out to Pluto and gate through to Alpha Centauri and on to a catalogued world, only to accidentally get lost camping.
Fun fact:
getting to Pluto with a Fen car (10% lightspeed) takes ~ 2 days... flight to Alpha Centauri would be another three days, and getting to Alpha Centauri itself would be another two days. So better place these gate inside the limit, otherwise they don't help that much.
Fun fact 2:
the gate the Fen found ARE within the limit.
Fun fact 3:
lets assume a gate at L5 of Earth. As soon as you construct a gate at Alpha Centauri, its not really "the wilderness" anymore because you can get there quicker there than getting to Mars or Saturn. Expect a Mc Donalds there soon!
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question:
how do you plan to get lost on a planet with a spaceship of your own? You can just lift up and within seconds your navigational computer tells you where you are after looking at a few stars.
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why not have "lost in wilderness" stories on Mars? If your car with your only radio breaks down, you are suddenly weeks or months away from the next civilized place.