GabrielGABFonseca
Cosmic Mongoose
Not in any Mg2nd Publication, but I'm fairly certain T5 covers it.
(That's where we got them from, after all).
(That's where we got them from, after all).
Not in any Mg2nd Publication, but I'm fairly certain T5 covers it.
(That's where we got them from, after all).
Actually, T5 does NOT cover GravComm (surprisingly). There is Comm (which covers all EMS-associated transmission systems), and CommPlus (which covers Meson/Neutrino Comm systems).
It MAY mention very-short range grav-comm for wireless-sync of devices like tablet-controllers and pads to operating systems, but nothing long range for distance-communication purposes.
Actually, T5 does NOT cover GravComm (surprisingly). There is Comm (which covers all EMS-associated transmission systems), and CommPlus (which covers Meson/Neutrino Comm systems).
It MAY mention very-short range grav-comm for wireless-sync of devices like tablet-controllers and pads to operating systems, but nothing long range for distance-communication purposes.
Huh.
Rob Eaglestone was the one who did the core writing for the Comms chapter, and given his work on T5, I presumed that's where it'd come from. I do stand corrected.
If you can radiate gravitational waves you have a mechanism for removing waste heat
(I am not giving up on this)
Yeah, because thermodynamics... heat is, like, entropy and entropy does not convey information... it's disorderly (hand waves in large circular pattern). Well at least if it gets Sigtrygg to accept a method to explain away the need for radiators, it's worth waving...Perhaps you can handwave this as a reason for no standard GravComms - waste heat removal from spacecraft creates enough background "static" and interference that GravComms do not produce a nice clean signal at the receiver (in other words - doable but not practical).
S is entropy, Q is heat energy, T is temperature |
What are jump particles? Is there a source or reference for this?You do know I was the person who came up with the concept of jump particles?
And they are now canonical for the setting in a way that Annic Nova never was - see Great Rift and High Guard.
What about thermodynamics?
I am on it! Grav sensors are a key component to the Weird Charted Space (my milieu which has highly unpredictable jumpspace phenomena)Umm, no, heat and entropy are different things.
2nd law
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The heat radiated from a cooling radiator can be used as a communication device. All you need to do is change the coolant flow rate to vary the amount of heat radiated and you can do binary signals no problem.
S is entropy, Q is heat energy, T is temperature
The point remains you have to remove waste heat from the ship, this requires a radiation of something. It can be EM radiation, gravitic radiation, particulate radiation (chuck hot stuff out of the ship).
If there is a handwaved mechanism for gravitics to radiate away gravitational energy then there's your waste heat removed.
Note it may be very difficult to detect this depending on the gravitic coupling of the gravitic device.
But it does open up the possibility of a JTAS article or two about introducing gravitc heat sinks, militarising them for stealth, and the sensor war between gravitic heat sinks and gravitic sensors.
The stealth in space everyone appears to crave (not me) with stealth coating this, stealth hull that. There is no stealth in space unless you can hide waste heat in a difficult to detect way.
Yes, in T5.What are jump particles? Is there a source or reference for this?
Got it. I did not make the connection between “exotic particles” and “jump particles”Yes, in T5.
Page 131 Book 2
A Collector is an array of specialized materials that slowly absorb exotic particles and releases them in a burst of energy which can power interstellar drives.
page 133
The Collector is a specialized alternate Power Source.
It slowly absorbs energy and releases it in a burst which can fuel interstellar drives.
The Collector uses a large external surface area to slowly absorb exotic particles; its unique structure releases energy in a powerful burst to support the high energy requirements of interstellar drives.
I wish I had not used the word particle when I first mentioned the idea on CotI years ago, but excitation of a quantum field confuses a lot of people
Basically if quantum fields are still a thing in the Traveller universe (and MWMs writings lead me to believe they are see T5 and AotI) the jump particle is an excitation of the jump (quantum) field. I originally postulated that they could only be harvested in the vicinity of stars, but it appears they now work in empty hexes too, which makes some sort of sense since quantum fields permeate all of spacetime.
What are jump particles? Is there a source or reference for this?
Can you explain more?A better description would be excitation in an exotic quantum fields that generates the ability to interact with jump space...
exotic jump particle then became exotic particle.