1. Then I need to go through this and fix that.
2. Untrue: When the vehicle in question goes into other spaces, it simply cannot access the contents of the bubble. The bubble is a permanent self-sustaining fixture.
3. Again, see above: The bubble itself is self-sustaining. Its actually creating a linking portal between and three and six dimensional space that's the difficult part.
Wes:
1. How about the capacity to have a plot without the use of a starship?
2. Or to explain the independence of people like bounty-hunters quite easily - living inside their weapon of choice and paying much lower docking fees or being able to hide in ways they previously wouldn't conventionally?
3. Or as an alternative to just flitting food and resources out of thin-air with energy-to-matter extrusion that creates limitations and problems for characters that they have to solve? I'm shocked lost SAOY starships in higher dimensions haven't become their own f**king CIVILISATIONS with the sheer and insane independence they have from anything even resembling basic logistics.
The fact you haven't even tried to explore that avenue for story purposes tells me you only looked at the short terms of what those technologies could do to solve an immediate short-term problem and not the wider basically economy-breaking implications: How does Yamatai even have an economy when such equipment exists? Why would anyone ever need to mine or transport or ship anything anywhere ever again?
Conclusion:
This achieves the independence you wanted from supply-chains with those technologies in a very limited way while also enhancing the logistical chains themselves instead of just sweeping the entire issue under the carpet.
It has the potential to be more interesting to roleplay than the existing solution is.
Unlike Uso, I have no intentions of sliding anything sneaky under the radar of the tech-folk here.
Hmmm, wouldn't this still fall under the no 'New dimensions or planes of existence' rule we have? Considering that you are essentially creating another 'plane' of existence by opening up a portal to said plane.
12 dimensional space is already accepted in the SARP, iirc. Its how both sub and hyperspace actually function.