On 6/19/2020 1:37 PM, Rupert Boleyn wrote: > When it comes down to it, in CT a jump drive is a black box into which > you pour power and hydrogen when you want to jump. They are consumed, > and you (hopefully) jump. Also in CT, as long as you aren't jumping too > close to a world, and are using refined fuel, you don't misjump. It's a > simple and safe system from the operator's point of view. On 6/19/2020 2:50 PM, Thomas RUX wrote: > The game designers wrote the back story that way for purposes of the > game they wanted. Hence the problem, because gamers and science fiction fans - groups which have a substantial amount of overlap, especially here - are NEVER going to just let it go at that. They're going to keep picking and poking at it, finding holes and demanding explanations, or making up their own. Which is exactly what we have been doing for the last 40+ years. "It's ****ing magic, okay?" just doesn't work when we're talking about a piece of /technology/ that's essential to the game setting. (It's right there in the name; jump drive is the primary method by which travellers travel.) -- --------------- Kelly St. Clair xxxxxx@efn.org
