Elite roleplay: Q&A and OOC

Silvia Sharpe
11 Oct 2023, 8:51pm
Logbook created. Link to it is inserted into it as well. Cheers
Kasumi Goto
11 Oct 2023, 9:02pm
Reminds me of that time I found an ‘impossible Earth-like world’ in orbit around an M-class dwarf on my first Colonia trip… 3.5k ls away from the star, alongside a bunch of terraformables all over 2k ls away from the star. I could barely even make out the surface, spun a light story around it being because of some fancy, ancient/(not quite so) abandoned Guardian technology in orbit.

I don’t recall the system. Just happened to be that the main star was a neutron without bodies, and the M class about 33k ls distant. I think the stellar forge had gotten the distances wrong because of the neutron star.
Silvia Sharpe
11 Oct 2023, 9:05pm
in space anything is possible. its one of the things that keeps me so enthralled by it.
Kasumi Goto
11 Oct 2023, 9:10pm
I have entertained the odd idea of an Earth-like world that was kicked out of its ‘home system’ and how long it would still sustain life before freezing over. Or, I guess, sufficient volcanic activity could potentially keep it ‘livable’ for longer.

Either way, curious where you’re going with it. Will we find out whether the FSD malfunction was pure happenchance and bad luck, or due to sabotage? (More me voicing an internal thought than expecting to be told… yet.)
Meowers
11 Oct 2023, 9:27pm
Yeah, that's quite interesting. Rogue planets are a thing, and some scientists claim there are more of them than stars out there, yet, you may guess, they're mostly frozen rocks. And, unreachable and untrackable with Elite's navigation technology that uses a central star of a system as a target point for a jump (also, here goes the boring explanation of jumps essentially being loading screens etc.).
Silvia Sharpe
11 Oct 2023, 9:29pm
in theory a planet with a thin hydrogen content or layer could help sustain green house gases, or at least that's what the science is saying.

to meowers yes that is more or less the gist of it lol. however a malfunctioning FSD/ nav system might just pick out some anomaly and jump to it. or rather in this case the FSD triggered for a star system further out malfunctioned and dropped the characters in the most unlikely of places, all while polling gravitational data and managed to pick out a gravity anomaly and focused on it instead.
Minonian
11 Oct 2023, 9:47pm
MeowersYeah, that's quite interesting. Rogue planets are a thing, and some scientists claim there are more of them than stars out there, yet, you may guess, they're mostly frozen rocks. And, unreachable and untrackable with Elite's navigation technology that uses a central star of a system as a target point for a jump (also, here goes the boring explanation of jumps essentially being loading screens etc.).


Yes, rouge planets and bodies are a thing, sometimes i wonder how much it has to do with all the so called missing matter what scientists don't find, the so called dark matter. And no it cannot explain all not nearly enough.

About jumps, how does the logics of it works, is the same with low wake a high enough mass gravity field disturbs the jump drive so in essence we just get plucked out from witch space by a star, basically just got interdicted by it in a more regulated ways since the on board instruments sensing the gravity field, and drop us out. At the old games it happened on the verge of a solar system when the effect of the gravity field was started to felt, but that also means long times get to any planet so later on with the advancements in technology they were changed it near to the star what was impossible previously.
Silvia Sharpe
11 Oct 2023, 10:05pm
That's generally how I view it. Minonian. Like the FSD is constantly sensing gravitational data and referencing it with telemetry data faster than the mind can think. Once it has its match it "submits" to a celestial interdiction but remains in supercruise. I'm sure there is information lore wise how it works but I'm too lazy right now to research it.
Kasumi Goto
11 Oct 2023, 10:10pm
I think the FSD basically opens wormholes through Witch Space and either uses a light source or gravitational pull to lock on and drop out into the [our] universe near.

I presume the latter since it works for black holes, but it could also be using the absence of light as a reference point. Or, perhaps, it uses both. Given that it generally locks on to the heaviest object in a system, though… (noticeable when you drop into one with a trinary star system where two orbit each other, but the ‘primary’ star on its own has higher mass than either of the two, even if both companion stars have higher mass combined)

Anyway, just making guesses. If it’s stated somewhere how the FSD locks on to a target without nav beacon presence, the wiki probably has that info.
Silvia Sharpe
11 Oct 2023, 10:21pm
You actually pretty much nailed it. It opens a worm hole between the destination target and the departing location. This in turn leaves behind a transient wake.
Kasumi Goto
11 Oct 2023, 10:23pm
I mean, I’m pretty sure about the wormhole stuff based on what lore knowledge I have on its creation(reverse-engineering from Thargoid hyperdrives). What I’m not so sure on is whether it uses gravity, light or a combination of both as a means of target lock for a jump.
Silvia Sharpe
11 Oct 2023, 10:32pm
It is based off the Alcubierre Drive. Meaning it shifts space around the individual in order to move the at faster than light speeds.
Minonian
11 Oct 2023, 10:44pm
Kasumi GotoI think the FSD basically opens wormholes through Witch Space and either uses a light source or gravitational pull to lock on and drop out into the [our] universe near.


Gravitational pull can be a multidimensional phenomena all quantum phenomena is. I also though of this related to some things beyond explanation such a spooky interaction at a distance and quantum teleportation whereas they don't really teleport but shift to another dimension or reality, than drop back to ours. This actually can explain a lot of question about quantum psychic. But the light of a star? NAH! Don't forget, the witch space is not in our 3d universe.
Kasumi Goto
11 Oct 2023, 10:53pm
Silvia SharpeIt is based off the Alcubierre Drive. Meaning it shifts space around the individual in order to move the at faster than light speeds.

In supercruise, I’ve heard. I was referring to the hyperspace jump component more.

(And thanks for the link, but I’m enough of a space nerd to be familiar with the basic idea of the Alcubierre drive concept and how sci-fi shows and games use it in various ways.)
Minonian
11 Oct 2023, 11:00pm
Kasumi Goto
Silvia SharpeIt is based off the Alcubierre Drive. Meaning it shifts space around the individual in order to move the at faster than light speeds.


In supercruise, I’ve heard. I was referring to the hyperspace jump component more.


Hi wake is a lil more complicated, in essence as much i know just low wake amped up and focused, till breaks the dimensional barrier. Thargoids using an entirely different method with creating artificial wormholes which is also has a somewhat similar effect as any large mass. That's why they are capable to hyperdict their method unlike ours casts a huge shadow to witch space and thus can pluck us out.

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