[Spaceships 2] Maintenance on Cheap Ships

[ericbsmith]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

With the rather important difference that a Traveler jump always takes the same amount of time, rather than being proportional to the distance traveled.

That's background flavor, along with the 100-d limit and hydrogen fuel usage. The difference between Jump and Hyperdrive is kind arbitrary anyways; there's no reason a Hyperdrive can't require a jump point, or a Jump drive can't take some small amount of time to make the jump. As you start tacking on features the one begins to look very much like the other. The one that's really different is Warp Drive, because it keeps you in the same dimension as the rest of the universe instead of tunneling into or through some other-dimension, meaning it's much more difficult to stealth into enemy territory.