TGW-1395
Chapter: The Dance Begins
Characters: ahmya, babydoll, bakrauf, commander lyn, Jochi, kora-bo, Miral, nori, sheela, Taritha, yoshi
Location: shimizu home, station meeting room
The Gentle Wolf
A modern adventure webcomic
Wait until Miral finds out how much it rains in Okinawa...
placehold
Does Granny have a lead foot.
The floor is her cruise control.
speed limit. when the vehicle
no longer accelerates.!
I know, fun isn’t it?
my bike has a limit of 100mph.
not because it can go faster,
at 111lbs, i don’t have enough
weight to keep it in the road…
edit 20km = 12.4 miles.
I hear that Rob, at 100 mph, my supersport’s ride
and handling got wonky. Plus, the chain would
start to slap. NOT a good thing. That’s one of the
reasons I was looking at Goldwings, they had a
highway-speed drive shaft.
The sister’s leathers look kind of like some
S&M outfit.
Question: Why did the brother and sister already
have leathers?
I thought the bikes were a surprise.
Always entering from system north at 2 AUs. That
tells me that Whatever system they’re coming from
lies in that direction. I suspect the consistent
2AU distance is related to the FTL physics and
the mass of the system’s star. Lots of fictional
FTL systems have such limitations. One hopes it
is a hard limit other-wise the core systems are
being cagey and faking Empire forces into deducing
a non-existent limit to gain a tactical advantage.
I can see a one time gotcha tactic in faking the
system defenders into setting up a defense at 2AU
and then jumping in much closer to the target world.
Bill, the direction that the ships are coming from may
be due to stellar magnetic fields. In short, their odd
FTL drive could pop them out in the stellar northern
magnetic pole. Or, if the FTL actually goes through
normal space, they could be avoiding the denser regions
of the star system’s Oort Cloud. Just saying…
racing leathers,. and Ahyma said they had bikes,.
just not like these…
accretion disk,. at 2au north they come in well
above any odd orbit or shipping lane…
and lagg… even tho you ‘could’ jump instantly
the visual you are ‘seeing’ is 16 minutes old.
so.. your instant jump has to account for the
visual lag of what will be where in 16 minutes.
edit up date: at one AU it takes 8 minutes 20
seconds for sunlight to reach Earth,. so at 2
AU it would take 16 minutes an 40 seconds..
If it’s a 2AU limit because of a gravity well,
System North would prevent the possibility
of their inadvertently jumping in too close
to one of the outer planets.
But in the same vein,
System South could work just as well.
However; as we’ve recently found a binary pair of
stars orbiting each other, with planet orbiting
them at a perpendicular plane to the binary stars
orbital plane, popping in at 2 AU on system North,
as judged by the binary pairs’ orbit,
MIGHT be a fatal mistake.
jus sayin,, IF it goes north, it also goes south.!
and,, they extensively mapped before hand,.
so as to avoid that..
i would also guess, that ‘2AU’ is a range to
allow a good scan, but give enough time to
jump out IF something comes for them,.
NOT the safe jump range. IF they did,.
they gave away a major weakness.!!
I had to go find it, but Ahmya mentioned in episode 1353 that
she had a (worn out) Kawasaki Ninja at home, so the fact
that her siblings have leathers shouldn’t be a surprise.
The bikes were a surprise to them, but them already having
leathers isn’t surprising since we know that Ahmya was a rider.
Where there’s one, there’s usually more in a family.
One of my coworkers and her husband have at least three,
for just the two of them.
I’m too slow. You guys covered most of what I wanted to say.
Heh, I was like that until I found out the hard way that
an accidents hurt a lot. 😉 My Camero wouldn’t go below
40 so I had to ride my brakes or risk another ticket…
You go granny!
Ok, is “system north” referring to the “above” location
of the solar system? It is a 3D environment so there’s
a bit of confusion on my part. I guessing north would
be the “above” as being the direction of (most of) the
planets and the sun’s north pole. So X and Y would be
90 degrees from N, S, E, W directions.
There’s plenty of sci-fi cases where gravity and
solar radiation effects FTL, it makes sense. If you’re
side-stepping the lightspeed rule, you’re walking a
fine line of that rule, anything to effect the drive
could have catastrophic results. Considering the
power needed to run a FTL drive, I wouldn’t want
to take that risk. (Oh look! A new star is born!
Aww…. it went away 🙁 )
Sage words and food for thought from Thomas Sowell:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8WUzsvbDFTA&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD