Friday 17 January 2020

FTL Near A Sun III

A Circus Of Hells, CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.

See FTL Near A Sun II.

"You didn't normally risk hyperdrive this near a planet or a sun. Matter density was too great, as was the chance of gravitation desynchronizing your quantum jumps." (p. 345)

Flandry is pursued:

"'...one skipper's decided to be brave and copy us. He got away with it, too, and locked onto our 'wake.'" (ibid.)

Here, explicitly, are two reasons to avoid hyperdrive inside a planetary system.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And it seems your chances of getting away with using hyperdrive too near a sun or a planet are higher if your boat or ship is small. Like Flandry's scout boat or even a destroyer. Even that clumsy gold plated hulk of a yatch we see Flandry using many years later in Chapter I of WE CLAIM THESE STARS may have been small enough to use the hyperdrive if an expert pilot like Chives thought it was safe enough to do.

Ad astra! Sean