Time for more Herasy!

[shadowdragon]

100dT volume is minimum size to install jump drives they say. k.....

does not seem to need to be solid matter, or empty cargo holds would prevent jumps............

so a series of long struts, holding up the delicate jump grid, should allow a 50dT craft to initiate a jump field as long as the volume of space encloses 100dT of space, yes?

cant think of an application at that scale but say you have a 1000dT jump ferry. Rather than wasting space on volume expensive docking bays, a spiderweb of struts and cables hold out the jump grid, and the vessles to be ferried simply move to within the area enclosed, attach a "grounding" tether to the ferry and away we go....
hmmmm.....

might just be silly enough to be feasable..

 

[Border Reiver]

I'm going to have a look at this with MT rules.

You may have come up with something. Why go with jump ferries? How about an inflatable "jump balloon" containing a lathanum grid, drop tanks for additional fuel and Robert's your male relative of choice.

Silly, maybe. Feasible, quite possibly. I'll be back.

 

[Black Globe Generator]

Originally posted by shadowdragon:
cant think of an application at that scale but say you have a 1000dT jump ferry. Rather than wasting space on volume expensive docking bays, a spiderweb of struts and cables hold out the jump grid, and the vessles to be ferried simply move to within the area enclosed, attach a "grounding" tether to the ferry and away we go....

Congratulations - you reinvented the battle rider jump-tender...

 

[mike wightman]

CT Supplement 9 Fighting Ships includes a 5000t jump transport that has a jump mesh it can wrap around unusually shaped cargos.

TNE allowed for small craft to have jump engines.

And finally there is the jump torpedo

 

[far-trader]

heretic, Heretic, HERETIC!



small h heresey for the CTS9 note since it's really not too bad,

capital H Heresey for the TNE note since I'm convinced it's corrigendum in need of errata,

SCREAMING BLOODY CAPITAL HERESEY FOR EVEN THINKING THE VILE THOUGHT...

 

[mike wightman]

Should I mention the jump drive equipped Battle Dress then

 

[far-trader]

Mine, yours, or anothers?

 

[Chuck Anumia]

Originally posted by Black Globe Generator:
Congratulations - you reinvented the battle rider jump-tender...

Is this ship not greater than 100 dtons?

 

[Black Globe Generator]

Originally posted by Colonel Johnnie Reb:
Is this ship not greater than 100 dtons?

Forgive me, but which ship are we talking about? The battle rider? The jump-tender? shadowdragon's 1 Kdton jump ferry? I'm not sure what you're referring to here.

 

[Greg]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
Should I mention the jump drive equipped Battle Dress then

A week stuck in an immobilized suit with nothing but two inches of metal between you and mind-bending nothingness?

You go first.

 

[GypsyComet]

The idea could certainly work at the "jump theory" level.

Now design it.

You are asking a 50-ton hull to pretend to be a 100-ton hull for jump purposes. That means (to me at least) that it needs to be equipped with Jump drives and fuel as if it were a 100-ton hull.

It isn't really a small craft, and so can't take advantage of small craft dodges. As such any CT or T20 ship built on this assumption is going to be a sardine can, if it works at all. The ship design systems that don't call for a 20 ton minimum bridge will be better.

 

[Zutroi]

Strictly an IMTU thing, but for me the 'delicate web' concept for 'expanding' a sub-100 tonne vessel doesn't work...

Why does a (MT design) ship need a minimum hull armor equivalent to a foot of steel, when the LEM had a hull 'armor' equal to 2 layers of heavy-duty kitchen foil?

Jump Stresses!

Since 'standard' designs for small craft have to be capable of riding on the hull of a jumping vessel, they have to be as strong as the jump-capable starship.

Of course, now I need to explain away that bulk-transport with the jump-cables...

 

[boomslang]

Originally posted by GypsyComet:
The idea could certainly work at the "jump theory" level.

Now design it.

We kicked this around under CT rules a few years ago over on Yahoo!

ct-starships: Jump Shuttle

(Start with the "Jump Question" thread and then follow the "Jump Shuttle" thread... we were looking for a way to build an add-on J-drive for a Modular Cutter and/or standard Heavy Fighter...)

This might give you some ideas...

 

[shadowdragon]

the point i liked, as it is neither cheap nor space saving, is that it would allow for rapid gathering and after jump deployment of vessels... imagine jumping in system with 10-30 sdb's all fired up and ready to fight, no launch time to leave the tender/ferry, able to fire missiles as soon as targeting lock occurrs etc.....

just me twistin da rules, don min me 'tall

 

[mike wightman]

Originally posted by Greg:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
Should I mention the jump drive equipped Battle Dress then

A week stuck in an immobilized suit with nothing but two inches of metal between you and mind-bending nothingness?

You go first. </font>[/QUOTE]Slow drug + antidote

And there will be the suit's A.I. to talk to, plus lots of VR software.