Hyperspace Drives

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mox is too fast, but plutonium is too slow. pluto degrades like 1 unit over a 6 system run. (can't remember how fast mox degens at, but its almost useless as a cargo unless your in something really agile)

i'd have the jump limited to ONE system.... but there is nothing to say that you cant have ships with more fuel 'cloaked' at that location (i.e. F1'd out at texas 111,111,111, hudson 111,111,111 hamburg 111,111,111) so they can act as fuel caches for future raids. This would give police forces a lot of work to do... instead of just having 'legitimate businessmen' and pirates to hassle, they can now have the right to scan EVERY vessel to make sure that they are not sneaking in quantities of fuel to stick into a cache.

Thought: can we make storage depots purchasable? (those things we used to blow up to get pirate reps) We could then have a transport dump the container at a certain place, and then successive visits could fill it up with fuel for the jumps. When the BS jumps though the systems, it would need to fill up again for each system.

I think it should take a large amount of fuel to create the 'pinch-field' to hyperspace to the next system, and the same amount of fuel regardless of the ships being transported: otherwise the ships that are docked with the carrier could make the carrier too heavy to jump.

Thus, traders would not abuse it because it only jumps you one system, and it takes all your fuel to jump, so you cannot jump away without more, and if you really want, you can spend a week lining up all the fuel caches to do one trade run in 15 mins.


jumping only one system:

i mean to the neighbouring system, irrespective of tradelanes/regular jumpgates. what you are doing is opening a temporary, one way jumphole. so, dauphine>t37, omega 7>humboldt, new hampshire>luneberg, yukon>t29 these are places where you'd normally take a 6-7 system route to get to. and this is more strategic than 'ny>nb'

it also means we dont need the extra gravity-well ship to counteract house to house jumping if they can only jump one system in any direction

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