GURPS Space campaign setting

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

What if when the drive is turned off in such a situation all that imparted potential energy is suddenly changed to waste heat exploding the vehicle into useless but still inertialess mist?

Then that's not a very useful drive and also why space opera drives usually don't conserve...well, usually they don't conserve lots of things.

Usually when you start breaking the laws of physics it's best to break them in all relevant areas and in a nice neat symmetrical fashion when you turn the physics-breaker on and off.

It's usually when you decide you're only going to break _just this once_ and scrupulously apply them the rest of the time that things start going wrong.

Fred Brackin