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ShadowFire15
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Posted - 2011.04.30 04:50:00 -
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I'm writing a eve story about a capital ship and was wondering how do people see the actual jumping of a capital ship? Could you say it is instant travel? Or can it be like the stargate sg1 where the ships enter hyperspace or star trek where the ships enter warp (a different warp I guess) and be in it for minutes or hours depending how far away your destination is?
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Rek Jaiga
Minmatar
Crimson Path
Shaktipat Revelators
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Posted - 2011.04.30 07:12:00 -
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I would say it's more like Stargate SG1, which would give us an appropriate handwave for the blackness one may see when jumping into a laggy system.
Or if it is instant, it's more like the Alderson Drive depicted in the CoDominium Sci-Fi series. This jives especially well with cynos, which would seem to be artificial Alderson points if you are of the belief the jump drives are instant.
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LadyOfWrath
Caldari
Ships N Stones
Quantum Forge
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Posted - 2011.04.30 07:32:00 -
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Personally I would go with the folding of space thing from Dune. |
Nikki Sanderson
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Posted - 2011.05.06 12:46:00 -
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According to Empyrean Age capital ship jumping is instantaneous. (Also supported by game mechanics)
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FeralShadow
RipStar.
United Front Alliance
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Posted - 2011.05.06 18:09:00 -
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I'd say it goes something like this:
The call for a jump drive goes out to all crews, and everybody has to go to their assigned area, jump drives can be finicky. The ship gets super quiet, suspense and anticipation. A deep hum and vibration emanates throughout the ship as it gets prepared to take the jump, getting more pronounced and more noticeable until BOOM the ship jumps, everybody feels split for a second, those looking out the window can see both systems simultaneously, and then quickly the second system becomes dominant and the first system fades out.
Either that or they see some sort of crazy tunnel for a split second while moving.
That's how I'd do it, if I were to write a cap jump.
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Rek Jaiga
Minmatar
Crimson Path
Shaktipat Revelators
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Posted - 2011.05.07 00:46:00 -
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As far as I'm aware, I thought jumping was basically creating a very short-lived wormhole and going through it. So it might look like this video. (The video depicts what things would look like as one passes through a wormhole linking an urban area to a beach). Notice how similar the spatial-distortion effects are to what we see near wormholes in EVE.
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Hardass01
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.05.09 11:10:00 -
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To my its more like Battlestar galactica they jump and its instanly to another region of space
But thats just my thoughts
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Tallian Saotome
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Posted - 2011.05.09 11:41:00 -
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 Originally by: Rek Jaiga
the CoDominium Sci-Fi series.
Sorry to hijack, but...
Can you please Evemail me and tell me who wrote those books? I read some Faulkner's Legion or something books set in that universe, and they are great, but I can't remember who wrote them to get new copies/more books... Thanks :D
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Rek Jaiga
Minmatar
Crimson Path
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Posted - 2011.05.09 23:53:00 -
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Originally by: Tallian Saotome
Originally by: Rek Jaiga
the CoDominium Sci-Fi series.
Sorry to hijack, but...
Can you please Evemail me and tell me who wrote those books? I read some Faulkner's Legion or something books set in that universe, and they are great, but I can't remember who wrote them to get new copies/more books... Thanks :D
The CoDominium series was originally envisioned by Jerry Pournelle, but when he teams up with Larry Niven for the "Mote in God's Eye" series it's just plain epic. I loved the details of the FTL travel; they still had to travel at sublight to arrive at the naturally-occurring Alderson Points (basically areas of space sensitive to manipulation) and then they create a wormhole there. The jump is instant, but all living things pass out for awhile and computers that weren't turned off prior to the jump are fried. The "Alderson Point" thing in particular resembles cynos and some of the old PF about Stargates in EVE; the gates had to be placed on certain "chords" of gravity or something.
But those are stargates. Capital ships don't seem to jump like in the Battlestar series (as in Battlestar you can jump to any arbitrary set of coordinates, so long as it isn't beyond the ship's Red Line; calculations have to be done to be sure you don't jump into an asteroid or something), but you could describe them as being so massive they are Alderson points in themselves, and a cyno acts as the other Alderson point thus allowing a wormhole to be made.
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