-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, the AN *would* be insanely valuable but the admiral would NOT know that. Al he would know is that there was a ship that could jump w/o refueling. Even before LBB5v1 introduced the J-governor a ship could jump more than once w/o refueling if it could carry enough extra fuel -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 5/19/16, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc.... To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com Date: Thursday, May 19, 2016, 4:48 PM 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, <xxxxxx@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'mnot 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, xxxxxx@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. 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