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Old 08-09-2021, 04:27 PM   #16
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Default Re: Spaceship Tech in your Setting

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
It seems that the greatest factor of speedup you could get would be equal to π, and that you could only get that if you were going to a destination that was diametrically opposed to yours on the great hypersphere of space. Or are you envisioning space as being elaborately folded, like a paper napkin or something?
Something like the latter. Not folded though, just a sharper curvature than euclidian geometry conceives. Maybe more like a tight spiral. And higher power drives available at higher TLs allow entry into subspace at greater angles/velocities.
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