Questions while writing

[M Fnord]

On the subject of towing, unless somebody has a huge desire to make stuff overly complicated in the name of 'quirks,' I'd say treat it like ordinary nautical towing operations.

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3) Is the standard ship's "speed" drive a gravity-effect drive of some sort?
(I know we were discussing this, but I don't recall coming to any consensus... The two extremes: If all the "speed" drives work on the same principle, then the 'Danes should be working on replicating the operating principles with hardtech. If they're all different, then ship repairs may be nearly impossible for lack of parts. Where on the sliding scale do we want to sit?)

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I've been working on the base assumption that the speed drive works on some sort of gravity effect, and that the effect isn't reproducible with hardtech short of the larger CERN particle colliders. Beyond that we start to get into the whole quirk thing, which makes answers... fuzzy.---
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