jump drive pilot?
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I'm with Elliot and Kafka, sorta. IMTU, around TL 12 ships can follow a programmed Jump-1 route. At TL 13 they can do Jump-2, and so on. But I also suspect that computers can get a little messed up by jumpspace, requiring some kind of warm reset (abort, retry, ignore?).
Of course, ships need to transition into and out of jump. What if a computer is messed up when the ship jumps, and a human is required to manually precipitate the ship out of jumpspace on arrival? (Picture a guy in an XBoat shorting out a pair of terminals on the jumpdrive with a monkey wrench... shudder).
Or maybe people don't "cycle the power" at TL 12...
Of course, ships need to transition into and out of jump. What if a computer is messed up when the ship jumps, and a human is required to manually precipitate the ship out of jumpspace on arrival? (Picture a guy in an XBoat shorting out a pair of terminals on the jumpdrive with a monkey wrench... shudder).
Or maybe people don't "cycle the power" at TL 12...
I'm with Elliot and Kafka, sorta. IMTU, around TL 12 ships can follow a programmed Jump-1 route. At TL 13 they can do Jump-2, and so on. But I also suspect that computers can get a little messed up by jumpspace, requiring some kind of warm reset (abort, retry, ignore?).
Of course, ships need to transition into and out of jump. What if a computer is messed up when the ship jumps, and a human is required to manually precipitate the ship out of jumpspace on arrival? (Picture a guy in an XBoat shorting out a pair of terminals on the jumpdrive with a monkey wrench... shudder).
Or maybe people don't "cycle the power" at TL 12...
Of course, ships need to transition into and out of jump. What if a computer is messed up when the ship jumps, and a human is required to manually precipitate the ship out of jumpspace on arrival? (Picture a guy in an XBoat shorting out a pair of terminals on the jumpdrive with a monkey wrench... shudder).
Or maybe people don't "cycle the power" at TL 12...
Actually after a talk with marc miller it came up that the people in traveller avoid automation as much as possible as automation leads to unemployment, discontent, and other things that civillization doesn't want or need.
So even tho ships could be automated they likely aren't as automation leads to more problems for more people than it solves.
Kind of like today.
So even tho ships could be automated they likely aren't as automation leads to more problems for more people than it solves.
Kind of like today.
Actually after a talk with marc miller it came up that the people in traveller avoid automation as much as possible as automation leads to unemployment, discontent, and other things that civillization doesn't want or need.
So even tho ships could be automated they likely aren't as automation leads to more problems for more people than it solves.
Kind of like today.
So even tho ships could be automated they likely aren't as automation leads to more problems for more people than it solves.
Kind of like today.
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