[Diaspora] Hyperspace visualization

[Brad Murray]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Rob Barrett
<maltesechangeling at gmail.com>wrote:

> Here's a question I have about the slipstreams and the slipstream points.
>  The diagram in the rulebook positions them above the north and south poles
> of a system's star--off the plane of the elliptic.  Are we to imagine that
> there are multiple slipstream entryways at these points (if a system is
> connect to multiple systems)?  Or does a ship slipping to System A use
> Setting 1 whereas it uses Setting 2 on the drive if it plans to go to System
> B?
>

Well, we didn't talk about that, so it's all your story if you want it. We
play that both slipknots are equivalent and that part of the navigator's
talent is in getting the ship into exactly the right geometry to make the
slip that they want to make. So not so much that there are multiple jump
points inside the 'knot but that the way your ship is oriented, taking into
account a bunch of other esoteric factors (precise mass, energy flux, who
knows what else!), determines the destination.

Making both 'knots equivalent creates different kinds of strategic
assumptions for the system. Making them different changes that dynamic, and
makes for different setting truths.

-- 
Brad Murray (halfjack)
VSCA Publishing
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