Generation Ships

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Icelander

In any event, that means that any form of spaceship drive that could drive a spaceship out of our solar system without astronomical waste is probably TL9.

Just as a technical note there's a differnce between "out of the solar system" and "to another star in pracical time". If TL8 Orion drives could be built to match expectations (and there hasn't been the slightest work on this beyond paper studies) then a ship could be propelled to beyond solarr escape velocity.

Thisd is more like building a long-term space habitat and then sending it just _away_ rather than going anywhere in particular.I don't think you can build the long term habitat at any TL8 that isn't an unrecognizable alternate.