Hello Rupert,

Hello Rupert

> On November 7, 2019 at 8:49 AM Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08Nov2019 0407, Thomas RUX wrote:
>
> > I believe I did use the Generate program ahead of time since I
> > ran it before loading the Maneuver program which is needed
> > before using the maneuver drive to go from the starting point
> > to the out bound jump point at the 100-D limit. My guess is
> > that the generate program needs to know the ship's maneuver-G
> > which allows the navigation to calculate the time to start
> > charging the jump drive to arrive at the out bound jump point
> > to insert the ship into jump space. The maneuver-G can be
> > entered, in my opinion, without the maneuver program running.
>
> The impression I got from the '77 edition was that you needed to
> run Generate right before the jump, so you travel out to 100
> diameters, using what set on normal space programs you normally
> use. Having got there you load up Generate and run it to make a
> flight plan. Now you dump Generate and load in Navigation and
> the correct Jump program if they wouldn't fit and jump.

Here is the details for the Generate program from CT LBB 2 Starships 1977 7th printing page 32:

"The navigator or pilot can input specific coordinates into the computer concerning a destination, and the generate program will create a flight plan to take the ship there. In cases where a generate program is not available, starports have single-use flight plans (in self-erasing cassettes) available for all worlds within jump range , and for which space lanes exist (see Book 3)."

Pages 32-33
"Navigation: Flight plans must be fed into the navigation program, which then interfaces with the jump program to actually take a ship ti its destination. To actually make a jump, both the jump and navigation  programs must be functioning in the computer (the generate program need only run long enough to actually create the flight plan)."

Based on being able to get a self-erasing single-use flight plan cassette from a starport suggests that the generate program is used before a ship leaves port heading to the out bound jump point at the 100-D limit.

In the Navigation program details of "(the generate program need only run long enough to actually create the flight plan)." also suggests that the generate program can be run at any time before making a jump.

Of course I could once again be out-to-lunch in my interpretation of the text.

Tom Rux