Spaceship thread 2:Electric Boogaloo
Spaceships
Adam Reyes
Carson Gomez
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Aiden Long
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Adam Torres
Requesting carriers/hiveships/motherships/droneships.
Ethan Scott
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Kevin Reed
What is a best kind of FTL?
1) No FTL. Regular speeds. Travel is either limited to a few close-lying solar systems, or the crew spends centuries in hybernation.
2) No FTL. Sub-lightspeed accessible. Range is large, crew doesn't hybernate due to relativistic effects.
3) Straight-up FTL. The "fuck Einstein" variety.
4) Hyperspace/Warp/Null-space. Another dimension where ship still flies.
6) Instantaineous jump. May still involve hyperspace, but anyway the ship effectively just teleports.
7) Portals/wormholes/stargates. Self-explanatory. Doesn't matter if natural or artificial, permanent or temporary.
Isaiah Butler
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Sebastian Myers
Hyperspace is the worst, because it can't physically exist in our universe.
Alcubierre drives are alright.
Wormholes a best, because they are realistic and avoid most timetravel and WMD problems.
Instantaneous wormhole-based teleport drives aren't realistic, but they're a fair alternative to Alcubierre drives that remove the planet-ramming problem.
Easton Howard
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Thomas Rogers
Planet-ramming problem?