' Wrote:Hehe, sometimes it does, i think. :D
Back to topic (I'm referring NOT to reality and real life physics!):
Within the physics of FL, trade lane travel is done in sublight speed while the use of jumpgates and anomalies moves you with superlight speed acroos the universe.
This causes a time effect and you travels months while the pilot and crew feels it were just seconds.
I'm sure I had read this somewhere on a FL related source but I cannot recall where.
this is so close to the truth its scary.....
tradelanes speed up time for the pilot. space is not space, space is space/time.
the reason why our ships are limited to 350 is because to go faster than that would make us younger than the universe. and this would result in juvenile behaviour, such as saying 'lull' and 'roffle' over the radio; these are not real words, but the sounds that babies make when first learning to speak.
if we were to constantly accelerate from manhatten to kusari, we'd end up exploding, as we'd get so young we'd experience the big-bang first hand. this is why when we fly so far off the edge of the map our ships explode; we have travelled so far back in time that the universe has ceased to exist.
the reason why planets and ships are so big compared to say suns is due to a psychological phenomenon known as 'set perceptual set. this describes how our preconceptions influence what we perceive... we conceive of a planet as a large, comfortable place where we were born, and so it seems larger to us than it really is. the same is true of our ships, they SEEM really large, but i'm afraid that's the 'climbing back inside the womb' thingy we get: the ships keep us safe in the cold dark depths of space. we never feel this connection to space stations and asteroids, as we didnt evolve on them, and so we know that they are flimsy things; thus we see them closer to their real sizes.
in fact, as we look at the sun, our brains refuse to accept that the sun is large, because its always been a small but bright light in the sky, and now its a large and bright thing in space? no-way says our brains, and remodells it to a more manageable perspective.
the fire-on-your-ship-just before explosion comes from oxygen leaking OUT of your craft.
finally, the reason why the tradelanes never move is because everything in the universe is moving at such a slow speed: ageira et al can easily program the tradelanes and jumpgates TO ORBIT THE SUN AT THE SAME RATE AS THE PLANETS, and so it appears that the bases and tradelanes never move.
