Hello again Craig,

In theory there are Imperial military rules and regulations, Imperial law, local system laws,

and probably other legalities that have to be cleared before an Imperial Admiral can commandeer

civilian ships. The antics of the Annic Nova, in my opinion, would not meet the criteria.

I still have not checked the maps of the area the Annic Nova is puttering around in, but there

are probably more planets to pick than there are ships capable of getting there.

Unknown to the authorities is that the Annic Nova skips the need to take on L-Hyd to run

the Jump Drives so any system that does not have relatively easy sources of L-Hyd are

not going to get a picket. Then there are systems that have nothing of value, even L-Hyd

that will be left open.

If there are any interdicted systems the Admiral or Noble will think really hard about pulling

the guard ships to hunt for an unidentified ship.

What about the economic impact that commandeering every ship is going to have?

Would trying to capture a single ship be enough of a reason for economic collapse?

In my mind the answer is no, but then again I may be wrong.

Tom R

From: "Craig Berry" <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 4:48:27 PM
Subject: Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc....

If I were the admiral or noble in charge of that region, I'd commandeer every available ship to give blanket coverage of every system in a J2 circle around the last sighting, and put pickets out to J4 just in case, along with a few out to J6 along paths leading to the Imperial border. Seriously, the AN would be insanely valuable if captured -- and it's obviously highly mobile, and on the edge of Imperial territory. If the Imperium doesn't catch it, odds are good the Zhodani or Vargr will. And that could be very, very, very bad indeed.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:38 PM, <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote:

Hello Craig,

How do you figure out the Annic Nova's course
from three jumps. Since I've re-buried by FFE
JTAS 1-12 book I'm pulling this from memory.
The Annic Nova pops into the first system
loitering long enough for fighters to reach
extreme range and pops out. There is no
mention of how much time elapsed between
the first sighting and the second sighting which
IIRC was a 2 parsec jump. The Annic Nova loitered
5 weeks and popped out of the system. Again there
is no mention of how much time elapsed between the
second and third which IIRC is a 1 parsec jump. Like
the first sighting the Annic Nova loitered just long
enough for the scouts to gather a bit of data.

How do you determine a search pattern based on
three sights and information that the mystery ship
appears to be jump 2 capable?

IIRC the word has been passed around using
the couriers and ships moving around the various
systems, which is in my opinion the best option.

According to the article the Annic Nova is equipped
with a J-2 drive and a J-3 drive. Everyone is searching
every point with in J2 of the sightings and the Annic
Nova engaged the J3 drive, which probably, since I'm
not looking at any maps is a guess, would be outside
of the search area.

Tom R
From: "Craig Berry" <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 4:02:24 PM
Subject: Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc....

Yep. The only thing that's hard to explain about the AN is why every Imperial ship in the sector (and every commercial ship that's heard about it) isn't engaged in an all-out hunt for the thing. Magic tech can sometimes be reverse engineered, after all, and this magic might prove especially valuable for whichever faction grabbed it first. Think about it...an *entirely new way of Jumping*. Who knows; with some tweaking you could perhaps get the recharge time from weeks to hours or minutes. Or perhaps there are parts of the tech that you could adapt to make normal J-drives more efficient. Seriously, the player characters wouldn't be able to reach the Annic Nova through the traffic jam of other ships trying to grab it. I'm picturing a situation much like that of the Streaker in Brin's _Startide Rising_.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
On May 19, 2016, at 2:14 PM, tmr0195@comcast.net wrote:

Hello Richard,

If one believes in that the hydrogen is dumped
around the ship to form a bubble that somehow
is used to open jump space then the Annic Nova's
jump drives have a huge problem to overcome.

To paraphrase an out-of-date cultural reference: “Jump’s got 99 problems, but the Annic Nova ain't one”

Dealing with a one-off artifact of an extremely higher, unattainable TL is MUCH easier than dealing with the many consequences of the rules as stated.

The main issue here is the unintended consequences of the rules. The AN is painfully simple to explain: it’s Clarke’s Third Law magic.

--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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