Re: (TFT) Space travel

[<dwtulloh61@cox.net>]

Don't forget "other" technologies - Cryogenics and Multi-Generational
Ships come immediately to mind.  I'm sure there are others as well.

---- Margaret Tapley <barnswallow@sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
> 
> My thoughts on space travel, as it relates to games, are this:
> 
> But interstellar travel, unless you have some way of going at the  
> speed of light or faster, isn't really feasible for games, since it  
> would take tens or hundreds of years, depending on how close to  
> lightspeed you got, to get to the next star over.
> 
> Science fiction usually handles this by giving ships a device that  
> allows them to somehow bend space to make the actual distance traveled  
> shorter (warp drive), or pop into an alternate dimension (hyperspace),  
> where again, distances are shorter, or just teleport to wherever  
> they're going.  The problems presented by three- (four?) dimensional,  
> relativistic space as you approach the speed of light mean that the  
> "alternate-dimension" idea is, from a gamer's perspective, probably  
> the best way to deal with it.
> 
> Basically: "screw realism, we have plot!" Unless you're a realism  
> junkie, in which case go talk to the people at CERN.
> 
> Dang... I  meant that to be short...
> 
> - Meg
> =====
> Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com.
> Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body
> "unsubscribe tft"
=====
Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com.
Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body
"unsubscribe tft"