[Space] FTL Ideas/Thoughts

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by scc

I sort of assume that the first wave of colonization was conducted with FTL-1 and it's 5 times multiplier at best and colony ships aren't normally speedsters, so that puts even Alpha Centauri several years travel away. Also I thinking portals came first, so to a certain extent the colony ships were one way


Why aren't you putting out a continuous signal? And remember FTL-3 can only be used until the first hop. Chances are a SAR group isn't going to be dispatched until they think a ship missing

You're playing with a much less connected setting than I was figuring on -- each colony will be very much its own place, and I suspect the main cargo will be people and supplies leaving the home system for good -- emigration, not trade.

The reason you aren't sending out a constant distress call is to preserve power -- you don't want to leave your reactor running with everyone in the stasis pods, and solar panels in interstellar space can't be providing that much power.