What if...?

[Spinward Scout]

Hey Everybody!

This is an odd idea I came up with after reading the Alternity Gamemaster Guide. I'm throwing it here since I can't figure out where else to post it. I'm also not sure if it's ever been covered before.

What would happen if you set your jump vector and were prepared to Jump, then activated a White or Black Globe before initiating your Jump?

Would it overload the capacitors and blow up the ship or deactivate/burn out the Globe?

Would Jump Space treat you as energy instead of matter and either kick you to a higher Jump level (thereby increasing your effective speed) or make your Jump duration shorter?

Would anything happen?

I started scratching my head when I thought about it out of the blue today. I hope it doesn't keep anyone awake thinking about it. Including myself.

 

[far-trader]

That's how pocket universes are created... oops, that supposed to be ultra secret, umm, you never heard that from me.

 

[Icosahedron]

There is specific mention in LBB5 of ships entering a system with their Black Globes on. Whether this was contradicted later, I have no idea.
I suppose it depends on exactly how Jumpspace and Black Globes work.

 

[far-trader]

The intent I always read into the bit about a black globed ship drifting into position in a system was that it happened after they dropped out of jump space. Since doing it in jump space seems like instant misjump at best and likely huge explosion/implosion most of the time as the black globe field hits the jumpspace boundry.

Which of course leads to the obvious (imo of course) conclusion that ship's emerging from jumpspace do so quietly and without fanfare. NO JUMP FLASH! Otherwise what would be the point of deploying a black globe to sneak in.

It also spoke volumes to me about the inherent accuracy of jump plots. Knowing exactly when and where and with what relative vector you'd come out of jumpspace with so that you could immediately throw up the black globe and drift to where you wanted to be to drop it again and strike. Again, some will disagree