[Spaceships] Reactionless Drives, Pseudovelocity, and NOT breaking a setting (much)

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

One of the basic points of pseudovelocity is that you don't need to break momentum conservation, because pseudovelocity moves you without actually involving momentum.

EDIT: Which actually gives me the thought that 'inertialess' technology along the lines of the Lensman books might give you results usefully similar to pseudovelocity without actually using reactionless drives.

Not really.

The Bergenholm is a setting breaker, if applied in ways Smith carefully doesn't talk about, but which players might well tend to do. For ex, you can use the Bergenholm to turn an ordinary construction brick into a WMD, and a very powerful one at that. Yet Boskone never tries to blow up Prime Base with a construction brick.

The best way to get around the velocity problem, IMHO, is to assume that the trip happens outside normal spacetime entirely.