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the deep jump divisions might still be able to deep jump again and get ahead of them in the Gora system. Didn't even take into account that their deep jump puts them into position for deep jumping into the next system, too. Guys, it doesn't. According to Arioch's Hyperspace Laws, if you jump out of...

Actually, we have all numbers to calculate the exhaust velocity of Loroi engines. Ship mass = 350000 ton Fuel mass = 5200 ton Acceleration = 30G Time = 100 h With some math we get an effective exhaust velocity of 7 123 846 154 m/s, that is 23 times faster than speed of light :lol: Exactly, and whil...

I think exhaust travel at a speed close to the speed of light. So it is all about light speed delay. If you can see it, it's fine, also you are to late. I agree that the exhaust travels fast and will not stay where emitted, but I do not believe it would travel at a speed close to c . Fast yes, but ...

hi hi Sooo... Is it still too late to divert to one of the uninhabited planets and try to hide in a rock crevice or something? I had an inkling... way back on page 105... that the Highland 7 might end up crash-landing somewhere and that Alex would be spending far more time with his fellow passenger...

A gravity well is only a model, the 3D plot of the gravity field strength (gravitational pull) of an object against the distance from said object, with said object being at the bottom of this "well". This relationship is hyperbolic and the plot thus looks like a funnel. The plot for a black hole loo...

An extra 6 divisions, two for each jump point? Even if Ashrain outruns them to the Enedd jump zone, what is she going to do about it? Stare them down angrily? Wouldn't want to be in her place now more than ever... And seriously, WTF, Clearbrook? To hell with our orders, let's just get the hell out o...

Out of curiosity, what sort of distances are we looking at for a "safe" jump vs. one that have a significant chance of failure? (Assuming no other factors are taken into account but distance.) According to the Insider, safe jumps are <10LY, usually less (6...10LY). The safest jumps are between two ...

Space is big, but the jump points are well-known and carefully watched in an inhabited system. Turning around from a jump requires, in most cases, a full-power burn of more than an hour. The odds that you could jump in and out of an inhabited, defended enemy system without being detected are essent...

My analysis may not be accurate, but it's the explanation that makes most sense to me. I don't see a tactical benefit of the deep jumping group other than surrounding Loroi forces at the Leido-Sala post. They are only overtaking their main invasion force on the vector from Rallis and they can't inte...

Exactly, the exhaust will travel at the speed it was emitted from the ship on a vector opposite the ship's course and have a density proportional to the power output of the drive, adjusted for the dispersal of particles and time past since it was emitted. Luge - you're not entirely correct and unfor...

More like following the tracks a jeep left in a grass field. True, the particles would disperse sooner or later, but not that soon, I'd say... The ships are quite large, have extremely powerful engines generating tremendous amounts of thrust and are bound to leave behind a considerable radiation tra...

@Suederwind - it's kind of obvious, since a) SG51 disengaged Kikitik-27's fleet at Naam and retreated, Kikitik has been following them one jump behind. He knows how Stillstorm thinks, they have fought a few times already. To be honest, I think Stillstorm in typical Loroi arrogance seriously underest...

There are no lasting traces that can be detected after the fact, but if you had sight of the ship during the process (or have recording buoys in the system), the ship's course will show you exactly where it went. Each nearby star has a corresponding jump zone and velocity vector. Do you mean the sh...

Rocks ain't free, time costs money and war time costs lives. One would be spending a considerable amount of time, materiel and effort picking out a suitable asteroid, installing the necessary propulsion and guidance systems on it and waiting for results. If the opposing faction doesn't have means to...

Heavily automated ships not necessarily, let's consider this for a moment: We see the umiak force of 8 divisions jump into Leido and, within what appears to be minutes, split into four task forces and begin motoring towards the 4 exit vectors from Leido. Then, after some more minutes, a 5th task for...

Indeed it doesn't, but the example provided still works to illustrate the impracticality of using asteroids as projectiles

Oh that was an unexpected pleasant surprise coming home and finding a new page (go Arioch!) and a discussion already on! Beryl's quite the "Lieutenant Obvious" but I second Talon, that is indeed the million talent question right now, how the truckload of umiaks got past all the checkpoints. Not surp...

Thanks, "hard reload" fixed it for me, never had this problem before. To be honest, although the new dialogue feels more natural as speech, I also think that Moonglow saying "the wager that won you resupply priority" feels out of place. They both know what the wager was about, it is Jardin and us, t...

Get a large rock, coat it in a very low reflection material, give it a basic guidance system and a long term propulsion drive to continually accelerate it so it gets to relativistic velocities. Then jump into the star system neighboring the target, aim it at the target and turn on the drive then ju...

SVlad wrote:Alos, last time Loroi said "i bet on something" she literally meant betting money. I think there is same case.

I think there's a slight difference between betting one's money on something and betting one's or someone else's lives