Do Teleportals Work In Jumpspace?

[ProfGrizzlyJon]

From HG2024:
Basic Ship Systems: This includes everything a ship needs for day-to-day operations, including artificial gravity, heating, lighting and life support. The amount of Power needed for basic ship systems is equal to 20% of the total tonnage of the hull.

This does not include other power requirements (like fuel processors or multienvironment space or biospheres or medbays or construction decks, etc)

While I agree that the Ancients probably figured it out, the question is very interesting

 

[tytalan]

The reason I ask is because Wrath of the Ancients says this in describing teleporters:

• It is possible to teleport in and out of pocket universes but a starship in jump is completely cut off. Teleportation in or out of the jump field is impossible.

Yet Secrets of the Ancients has a vessel, The Dart, which says this:

• It has a jump drive but draws both power and hydrogen fuel from an onboard supply teleportal

Unless they wanted the ship to suddenly lose power the first time it jumped, the teleportal has to work in jumpspace. Admittedly, a teleportal might differ somewhat from a teleporter, but they use the same technology to meet their purposes.

I know Secret of the Ancients was published first, but that actually makes the situation worse. Players and GMs might have already introduced/encountered the ship before the later book said that it couldn't work that way.

The Nameless Ship in Wrath of the Ancients has an antimatter powerplant, so I'll wager changes were made. To keep The Dart working, perhaps it stores enough power to keep the ship running for a week in jumpspace. That's how I'd end up handwaving the discrepancy, I suppose.

I haven’t read either but from what you’ve post here’s my thoughts. A teleporter is a Psionic that has the Teleport Skill were as the ships system is a technology based teleportation system. So the former doesn’t work but the latter does

 

[MasterGwydion]

I haven’t read either but from what you’ve post here’s my thoughts. A teleporter is a Psionic that has the Teleport Skill were as the ships system is a technology based teleportation system. So the former doesn’t work but the latter does

How do you know that the technology used in the Teleportal isn't psionic-based?

 

[Terry Mixon]

How do you know that the technology used in the Teleportal isn't psionic-based?

The adventures mention teleporters as specifically technological rather than psionic.

 

[MasterGwydion]

The adventures mention teleporters as specifically technological rather than psionic.

Psionics can be technology. They are not mutually exclusive. Pirates of Drinax, Book 1 page 266. The Nameless Keeper is a piece of technology that uses psionics. So, they can be both.

 

[Condottiere]

Wasn't one jump drive variant powered by psionics?

 

[Terry Mixon]

Psionics can be technology. They are not mutually exclusive. Pirates of Drinax, Book 1 page 266. The Nameless Keeper is a piece of technology that uses psionics. So, they can be both.

It was pretty clear it wasn't psionic.

TELEPORTERS
Non-psionic teleportation is one of the Ancients’ greatest achievements.