Rhialto the Marvelous
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Thanks much!
What's Out There Beyond Known Space?
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Frankymole
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That would be only 3131 light years, or about 2700 light years from Terra/Sol.And not forgetting that just getting to the galactic edge to find said barrier is a very very very very long trip, even at J6It's some 24 sectors from Capital to the edge (if the map on travellermap.com is to be trusted).
That would more likely take you to the outer edge of the Orion Arm, if that.
It should be more like 15,000-20,000 ly to the outer rim of the Galaxy, you have to go through the Perseus Arm first.
The core and the rim are fine, but you're going to find more suitable worlds / alien races by travelling around the galaxy in a circular route or down the Arms, spinward or trailing.
Some nice primers/jump-off points here:
http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/171
http://galaxymap.org/
What is out beyond Charted Space? Lots of looming problems...
Towards the core:
Empress Wave scheduled to hit Spinward Marches Sector in the year 1212. It is traveling at light speed from the Yaskoydri home world.
An intense heavy particle belt from the stellar incident that killed the Yaskoydri will hit Charted Space 8000 years later, in the 9200's. It is radiating out from the core, traveling at .1c to .3c. The origination point is not the Yaskoydri system, but a system nearby theirs. This far out the "ripple" looks the same. By the time it gets to Charted Space, it will have dissapated sufficiently to not cause instant death even to shielded spaceships, worlds and characters. It will be a nuisance to Charted Space for millenia as it is several parsecs thick and moving only at .1c to .3c.
That is a summary from different parts of the 1248 books. If you want the page references, I will go back and get them.
Towards the core:
Empress Wave scheduled to hit Spinward Marches Sector in the year 1212. It is traveling at light speed from the Yaskoydri home world.
An intense heavy particle belt from the stellar incident that killed the Yaskoydri will hit Charted Space 8000 years later, in the 9200's. It is radiating out from the core, traveling at .1c to .3c. The origination point is not the Yaskoydri system, but a system nearby theirs. This far out the "ripple" looks the same. By the time it gets to Charted Space, it will have dissapated sufficiently to not cause instant death even to shielded spaceships, worlds and characters. It will be a nuisance to Charted Space for millenia as it is several parsecs thick and moving only at .1c to .3c.
That is a summary from different parts of the 1248 books. If you want the page references, I will go back and get them.
I bet you a few different expeditions will go to the edge of the Orion Arm just to see what the edge of the ga LAX y looks like. They won't be doing it for the aliens.
Frankymole
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It might be even more fun to visit globular clusters first, assuming a jump route can be found or set up.
Though open clusters within the galactic disk will also offer interesting, dense groups of systems for exploration.
Then there are the Magellanic Expeditions...
If you want to see the galaxy, heading to the edge of the disk by travelling at 90 degrees to the plane would be quicker - galactic "north" or "south" rather than rimward.
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North but not Coreward? Nonsense. What madness is this talk of the so-called Third Dimension? Heretic! Heretic!
But seriously... IMTU regions beyond Charted Space have a handful of technological sophonts per sector, with a few that have multi-world sublight domains. Randomly, some are close enough to have trade/conflicts or be heterogenous. There are an equivalent number of "dead" civilizations/worlds with ruins of a high-tech civilization.
In other words, it's cold, dark, and lonely away from home.
In other words, it's cold, dark, and lonely away from home.
BlackBat242
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Dragons.
Quazar dragons. Draco Godawfulus Armageddonus
Be very afraid!
http://forums.gamesquad.com/archive/index.php/t-43138.html
Quazar dragons. Draco Godawfulus Armageddonus
Be very afraid!
http://forums.gamesquad.com/archive/index.php/t-43138.html
I once sent my group outside the galaxy. Where, as per Sagan's speculation, imagine a world where instead of a sunrise, you see a Galaxy-rise. P.S. I already have an adventure in the works that has this as a component.
Anyway, have a look at this image; http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/101/5/a/Galaxy_Rise_by_KycklingLord.jpg
Frankymole
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With the potential of finding a pre-contact Terra-type powderkeg that will light a whole new set of Interstellar Wars!
Chuck Anumia
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I would like to see the specs for this in T5!
BlackBat242
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Variants can do 10 parsecs/week in 10-parsec increments, others can do 100p/week, again in 100p increments.
That would be a skip 2 drive. A skip 1 does 100, and a skip 6 does 600, etc.
A couple of black holes tossed at it should work fine in removing it. Of course, then you would have a very massive black hole to get rid of...
Some years I purchased art at the local sf convention that showed a space alien headed towards a beach chair. He had some sort of drink, there was a small barbeque and an ice chest near the beach chair. The local sunset was happening and out there where he would be facing, was a galaxy.
Right. Except I read on a bit further and the Jump Drive is base 168 hours (a week), Hop Drive 24 hours (a day), Skip Drive 3.5 hours, to say nothing of Leap, Bound, Vault, Six, Seven, Eight, and Nine drives.
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