Jump drive plus#

It was only possible to jump from star to star and only if they were not more than 1 parsec apart. Jumping into empty ('flat') space with this primitive system was more than merely a source of uncertainty as to the emergence point, IT WAS FATAL, as one could not rejump BACK without a departing gravity well's 'KICK' in the desired direction. The gravity well of the destination star was a part of how this approach worked, and was critical to a successful transportation system. Destination mass was also important, at least for the star, and was required to define the terminus of the jump.

Jump drive plus#

Jump space navigation involved normal space navigation, plus grav field calculations for the departing star and nearby lesser bodies, to determine where to get to go into the desired jump this was the original source of the term 'jump point'. If everything worked, you vanished in a flash of Cherenkov radiation and were on your way.

One had to place the ship at the optimum place to jump to a destination, charge up, then fire the drive. This process created a spherical field, and hulls therefore had to be spherical to get as much mass as possible inside the field due to the extremely high energy needs. The first primitive jump drives were a crude affair, employing a single field generator. It is what Terran's refer to as an artificial Einstein-Rosen bridge it is short lived, and is a small pocket of space wrapped entirely around the center of field, which is inside the ship. The ship falls out of space into what we now call jumpspace. Jump fields are created by energy storage systems, superfast power switching elements, and several field generators which actually use this pulse of energy to generate the jump field. Much of it came from the investigation of theoretical physics and black hole properties. A Jump field is partly a gravitic effect.