I don’t think space cares that much. Afterall, the whole universe expanded faster than light all on its own in the early moments after the Big Bang, and that was with the entire contents of the universe inside.
If we were to get atmospheric landings.....
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Nah, we’ll be fine. Wormholes aren’t implemented yet!Best case - something like a sonic boom as the atmosphere collapses behind the departed vessel.
Worst case - entire atmosphere gets sucked into wormhole behind departing vessel. Commander arrives at destination amid billowing clouds of frozen gas particles and thinks, "cool volumetric effects, I've discovered a new nebula!"
How about "Witchspace" instead?
Then we’d be screwed.
I wonder how long it would take for Commanders to systematically de-air every atmospheric planet in the bubble?
Two hours into the Beta?
It would be entertaining to watch.I wonder how long it would take for Commanders to systematically de-air every atmospheric planet in the bubble?
Two hours into the Beta?
We will probably have Hyperdrive disabled until the stratosphere ( 20 km for earth) but we will have normal fsd/Orbital cruise at 2 km as it is now
I would love it if there were different rules depending upon the atmospheric circumstances.
For example using the FSD in an electric storm could be very risky and would famage the FSD.
True; and that would be the most likely outcome.
That said, it would be a shame not to take advantage of the interesting aspects of atmospheric flight - lift, compression, turbulence, etc. It would be very easy to simply say that the FSD conduit forms around the vessel and excludes the atmosphere, but it seems a bit of a cheat, dunnit? It would be SO much more fun to glide down through the atmosphere and climb through it to the edge before charging Supercruise (and forbidding Witchspace until completely outside the atmosphere)....OHHH the fun we could have with atmospheric flight!
Just imagine how a T7 would handle in an atmosphere. The only thing that would influence that brick is gravity.
"Lift?" The T7 pilot said, "Never heard of it".
I would really like to experience going to space on normal thrust, and only then be able to engage fsd.
Well, apart from the Danylkiew effect creating a gravitational ripple that tears the planet apart, raising a subspace field in an atmosphere also creates a superheated plasma bubble. Think of a little sun of several miles radius with your ship right at the centre of it. What doesn't turn to vapour in the immediate vicinity (as in: several hundred miles' radius) gets caught in the shockwave of rapidly expanding air around it. This rolls around the planet and meets itself on the other side in another devastating collision and then whiplashes back. And did I mention the gamma radiation?
Of course that is mostly theoretical --usually the drive melts itself before it can complete the subspace field.
Yes, this was what I was thinking of to some extend. And of course, all that material falling in behind you might just shove you into that exclusion zone of that star you just arrived at. Shoved you really, really hard.
Possible. The day is young.I wonder how long it would take for Commanders to systematically de-air every atmospheric planet in the bubble?
Two hours into the Beta?
Yeah, stuff like this would be a good reason why you "couldn't" fire up the FSD in an atmosphere (well, in theory, anyway). And yes, shockwaves (in theory) SHOULD be left behind because of a sudden lose of a big chunk of atmosphere. And on a populated planet? OMG just think of the fines you'd be racking up.
I read the ST:TNG technical manual cover to cover so many times I nearly wore it out, and I’ve been studying Alcubiere warp drive for years, so yes, yes I do.Do you know a lot about hyperdrive and warp drive technology
In previous Elite Games with atmospheric planets, there was not special distance requirements. Same 12 km. So Lore-wise I don't see need for 100 km altitude and such....
As much as I love ST lore (see above) I don’t think we have to worry about that here. No subspace, for a start, and matter entering or exiting a warp bubble should be completely unfazed since we’re only affecting spacetime. Otherwise you’d get your ship vaporized if you flew too close to a ship jumping to supercruise.
The only air we’d take with us would be the air in the region of normal space around the ship, but since we don’t know how he field geometry, we don’t know how big that region is, admittedly. I envision it being about the size of our shield bubbles.
good news!
you can just continue to fly with normal thrust until your 200km out, or even 1ls out whatever takes your fancy., you can even fly from one planet to the next without even touching your FSD!
what a time to be alive, the rest of us will probably stick the FSD on at 2km above though...
Mass lock is a function of mass and distance. How would adding an atmosphere change that? You get far enough away from a object of significant mass, you can open an Einstein-Rosen bridge to another star system.
No, it'll be fine. I got a blender that even blends ice. Just turn it to 6 instead of 5