[TML] Noncanonical TU 3D.

[Timothy Little]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:25:58AM -0500, Jerry W Barrington wrote:
> One question: why can't a ship carry enough fuel to make it to
> Wolf 359 in 2 jumps?  That would get around that limit.

It might take more than 50% of the volume of the ship to make a jump
with the early drives.  There are ways around that problem with a
multi-stage ship, but I could see that getting extraordinarily
expensive.

Though it should be possible to find a large cometary body in deep
space from which to refuel.  There should be billions out there, and
by then sensors should be good enough to find one.  Even if you have
to detonate a huge nuclear flashbulb in the middle of deep space and
keep your sensors peeled for echoes, you only need to succeed once.


- Tim