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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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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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Rek Jaiga
Minmatar
Crimson Path
Shaktipat Revelators
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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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