[TML] Tech Level progression and regression

[Richard Aiken]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't seen any good *logical* arguments against this, and it *has* been
> done in OTU (the secret Naval route across the Rift).  But common use would
> change the OTU massively, so some reason is usually proposed for why it
> isn't more common.

There was a long discussion of this a couple of years back on (I
think) SJGames JTAS.  One proposal was that jump drives actually need
a significant mass point to percipitate the ship out of jump space.
Finding one that's both big enough to work yet not big enough to be
easily found by somebody else would then become the problem.

-- 
Richard Aiken

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