Delance said:... locate the secret weapons depot?
... tring to find a way out of Gemini, either to Kilrathi or Confed space?
SpaceDrake said:I was sharp enough even at 15 to realize the scope of the game was limited to the Gemini sector.
SoulSkorpion said:(causing me to speculate on whether there was some other means of getting places, such as just pointing your ship there and waiting a long time).
Hey, it would work. After all, there were other references in the story to getting to Gemini "being no day trip", or words to that effect. Judging by the universe map, there are some systems near the Sol system which we know of as star systems irl (Alpha Centauri, Proxima Centauri, Sirius etc), so we can infer that jumping isn't "alternate dimension" travelling and that the source and the desination lie on the same plane of existance. And it's not implausible that a culture that posesses jump technology also posesses some other very fast means of travel (hypothetically^2 speaking).Dyret said:Don't be stupid.
SoulSkorpion said:As was I (nya nya na nya nya), although I mostly infered that from the nav maps having no jump lines out of Gemini. For that matter, the mention in the manual of out hero travelling "to Gemini" on a freighter bothered me, since I couldn't figure out how it could get there if there were no jump lines (causing me to speculate on whether there was some other means of getting places, such as just pointing your ship there and waiting a long time).
SoulSkorpion said:Hey, it would work. After all, there were other references in the story to getting to Gemini "being no day trip", or words to that effect. Judging by the universe map, there are some systems near the Sol system which we know of as star systems irl (Alpha Centauri, Proxima Centauri, Sirius etc), so we can infer that jumping isn't "alternate dimension" travelling and that the source and the desination lie on the same plane of existance. And it's not implausible that a culture that posesses jump technology also posesses some other very fast means of travel (hypothetically^2 speaking).
Ridgerunner said:Check out Ripper's Privateer 3 threads.