Wes said here that Hill Spheres take at least an hour to traverse - and that numberβs probably larger elsewhere in the setting.Nobody writes exiting a star taking as much time as you do Alex, it's mostly theoretical how much time exiting a hill sphere takes. Also people cut down on the time it takes to get around a lot as is. If we're counting change, for the largest ships it takes about half an hour to warm up and half an hour to cool down so it's only cutting the base time to get across a grid in half!
This honestly. Supply ships and transports exist for a reason. When it comes to teleporters we only really have small scale ones for infantry. This sort of a jump all of a sudden would be extremely unprecedented. Neat idea but I feel it's a tad bit broken setting wise...I don't know how I feel about this. I feel like this trivializes starships.
Suppose this is for transit from ship to surface and back. I can accept that as a cool reason for it to exist, but I am not a fan of teleporting between planets on this scale. Useful, yes, but now there's no reason to have ships in orbit duking it out.
EDIT: Alex raises my next concern. Heck, this is faster than a Plumeria outta nowhere!
Especially if the Mishhu take one of these over and use it to invade the entire Star Empire at once, as the article doesnβt mention any sort of βoff switchβ or means of blocking incoming teleports.I knew that quote was around here somewhere!
The Starship Speed Standard is a big deal to me on this. If it's faster than this it won't just revolutionize SAoY logistics. It'll revolutionize the whole setting!
If this became a major plot point for the whole site... that could be a fun event.
Ready when you unlockOkay, I finally had some time to sit down and read the article so here's my thoughts:
I agree that starships are the key element of the setting and we should be careful about making them obsolete with other technologies. The main addition this submission needs is its range, which I think should should be pretty short as some kind of "balance" attempt.
This is definitely a tech that would change the setting a lot. When I see this I think of KFY Shipyards on Luna Bianca (Yamatai's moon) sending ships to the planet, or the Star Army using them as rapid starship deployers to move ships to the edge of the system to cut down on response times to pirates or invaders. Yamatai would immediately start making hundreds of these on Nataria because they would want to be able to launch ships directly from the planet to the edge of the system to bypass existing FTL limits, which are, in general, that you have to go at STL speed when you're in a star system. That prevents invaders from being able to just show up on Main Street Kyoto and start launching nukes. It's important this needs a receiver because we don't want to set up the universe in a way that an angry individual could easily destroy all the places we've created over the years with a press of a button by teleporting weapons of mass destruction to them.
In a historical sense, It's not like Yamatai hasn't had something similar in the past; the AvaNet avatars used to teleport whole units and large supply shipments large distances. This was seen most notably in the Chaos Hive War.
The site rules give players player rights which include, "I have the right to comment on any setting article being submitted for approval, since changes to the setting may affect my characters or plots." Therefore we need to allow everyone a chance to give their thoughts. That said, try to put your comments in one post instead of posting reply after reply. Continously hounding the submitter with replies may result in a reply ban from the submission thread. Both Andrew and Ametheliana asked for some time for Andrew to get to his review and it was ignored. Therefore the thread will be locked until Andrew tells me he's ready.
To sum up the earlier posts I made in this thread:Alright, I have reviewed the article and taken into consideration a lot of the comments that have been made:
- After consideration and some back and forth with Wes, we agree that the range of this would max out around 10LY.
- I'd like to see mention of the use of independent power generation (aether generators) and maybe a little bit of a focus on the fact an intensive amount of energy is needed to make this possible.
- This should be specifically added that this is on the restricted technology list for Yamatai/The Star Army.
- The need for the receiving pad needs to be clarified as was mentioned.
- It should have the table/bullet points that quickly list the following (see the component template)
- Year of Creation
- Designer
- Nomenclature
- Manufacturer
- Fielded By
- Availability - I suggest a prototype
- Price (It's not for sale but Wes and I have been putting prices on things to approximate their value)
- YE 46 in history should be wikified
- I'd also like something mentioning how this is just being rolled out and maybe choosing a few locations where this has been established to start with and expand it in RP versus it being everywhere right away.
To sum up the earlier posts I made in this thread:
Edit: Apologies for the brevity of this post - in a rush to get prepared for a D&D game that I should've been ready for earlier. >v<
- @Wes or @Andrew can voting please be re-enabled for this thread? I've stated in previous posts why I think this should be done - and I find it strange that voting was disabled to begin with...
- Might I also request that the teleporter's mass capacity be added to the article so that people (especially GMs) know how much these things can send/receive? Given that there's different sizes of teleporters, a table would be the best way to convey the information, in my opinion. Such a table would also allow for each size's cooldown time (and range, if that varies based upon receiving pad size) to be listed in an orderly fashion.
- As Elysia's FM, is Elysia going to be getting these at some point?
I like these reasons! On a planetary scale this is super cool, but suppose we can simply teleport tanks and equipment from space to ground not shuttles and heavy lift vehicles are kinda pointless. BUT on the planetary scale I think this totally fits.Iβd just like to point out:
- This seems to primarily be a tool that will make logistics quicker. Putting things onto ships or putting ships places. When I read it, I immediately thought that the underground Star Army base on Tami could use them to repair ships in deep maintenance bays that are otherwise inaccessible to the surface.
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