Every story I will write is part of the same storyline. Dream Team plays 10 years after the end of Color and Stealth.Snoofman wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 3:17 pmAn awesome end to your first project. I enjoyed Wildfire facing off against her grandfather and scaring him off with some scissor horror stories. Question though: is this new four armed species technically Soia? Or a Soia creation? Also does the new alien spacecraft the team discovered act in part as some sort of portal/gateway since it utilizes hyperspace energy?
Since Alex's appearance has many coincidences (only survivor, his awakening at the touch of a very special Loroi, him being brought aboard a ship that's called 'Tempest', first Human, the meaning of his name, the meaning of his rank in Trade) I decided to risk it and suggest that such occurrences are not coincidental at all, but the work of a higher power. In Dream Team that power is sick of the new species' slaughter fests and decides to act.
The new species is a failed Soia creation. Their first attempt to create a soldier species. They used an apex predator instead of a sapient species and sort of uplifted it. It did not end well, because it's still a predator. But now it's an intelligent one. Give a Great White shark an IQ of one hundred and you don't get a poet or a philosopher, but a very smart killer.
The alien ships have hyperdrives and need to use the jump points. But their acceleration in normal space is very high. They use hyperspace to propel themselves in normal space. Because of this, they don't need fuel, because energy is obtained from hyperspace to power everything.
It is done by opening a small portal inside the ship. Two in fact. One at the stern and one at the bow. These portals serve as entry and exit portals for hyperspace.
Imagine a rod inside a tube. There's some space between both. Now, magically, a very, very fast flowing stream of water appears at one end and flows in the space between the inner rod and outer tube and magically disappears at the other end. There's no equal but opposite reaction. The friction of the water on the surfaces of the rod and pipe will accelerate them forward. To us, hyperspace appears 2D. This means that the water can be considered to have an infinite high speed. Still.. There's E=MC^2 to consider. A mass can't go faster than the speed of light. And it can't accelerate from zero to 99.999% of lightspeed in zero seconds. Thus the ships have a limited acceleration and maximum speed.
Their familiarity with the tech suggests that the Historians use something similar.
Another 'ship' that possesses a lot of knowledge about 'hyperspace' will make a donation, which enables the multi-species team to make longer jumps.