Fiction How does it feel to jump for the first time?

[Becks]

So as I was scribbling down my Unexpected Encounter Stuff, I asked myself: What feels someone when he/she is jumping for the first time?

Adrenaline rush? For sure.
Excitement? Depends on the character.
Fear? Probably after the Starship One incident.

But what are the effects on the body?

Sickness/Nausea?
A feeling of extreme acceleration (and decceleration when dropping)? How extreme? Maybe a tunnel vision?
Headache?

If anyone has threads, lore, writings or passages where it's described or discussed please link it.
Thanks in advance for everyone who helps me thinking about this topic

 

[Allen Stroud]

The better writing on this in the official fiction deals with sensation, so you're on the right lines. There's some descriptions of feeling a shift and nausea, but these were left to individual writers interpretation.

My jumps were usually described thus:

"The ship seemed to lurch underneath her. A sensation she recognised immediately despite her inexperience."

The Antares Incident in AD 3251 and more recently, Starship One are both known about owing to the journals and Galnet, but we are talking about a hugely diverse interstellar population, many of whom may never have known about one or the other. Federation awareness is obviously greater than other independent peoples and stuff.

Having read Galnet's stuff on Starship One, I'm very pleased to see the Antares reference. Nice to know those months on the couch compiling things weren't wasted!

 

[Becks]

The better writing on this in the official fiction deals with sensation, so you're on the right lines. There's some descriptions of feeling a shift and nausea, but these were left to individual writers interpretation.

My jumps were usually described thus:

"The ship seemed to lurch underneath her. A sensation she recognised immediately despite her inexperience."

The Antares Incident in AD 3251 and more recently, Starship One are both known about owing to the journals and Galnet, but we are talking about a hugely diverse interstellar population, many of whom may never have known about one or the other. Federation awareness is obviously greater than other independent peoples and stuff.

Having read Galnet's stuff on Starship One, I'm very pleased to see the Antares reference. Nice to know those months on the couch compiling things weren't wasted!

Thanks for the answer

To be honest, I haven't thought until now about the diversity of the population. I just assumed everyone is informed over GalNet and thus aware of the incidents due to the recent media coverage. Thanks for this point, too.
Has FDev ever published (estimated) numbers on how many humans live in the Elite Universe?

 

[Allen Stroud]

Thanks for the answer

To be honest, I haven't thought until now about the diversity of the population. I just assumed everyone is informed over GalNet and thus aware of the incidents due to the recent media coverage. Thanks for this point, too.
Has FDev ever published (estimated) numbers on how many humans live in the Elite Universe?

If they have they haven't shared it (they may well have done in the office). You can do a rough exponential calculation if that helps you.
If those kind of details are part of how you write, I might suggest Stephen Gillett's book. Its very good and whilst science minded, makes the point that ultimately we're writing fiction - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CB1WUFY?keywords=stephen%20gillett&qid=1456219480&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2 I read it for my Ph. D. submission.

The basis of my assertion related to knowledge is class based. David Braben often compares space ships in the Elite Universe to yachts. If they are yachts, they are owned by that class of person. Whilst we can infer freighter's and the like are owed by a lower class (?), there's still a hierarchy deterined by the analogy.

Hope that helps.

 

[Becks]

Thanks again
I will give a read to that book.

 

[drew]

I had a quick review of my story and I generally didn't describe hyperspace at all other than "the ship disappeared into". I tended to focus on the build up to the jump, the tension and expectation, that sort thng.

Cheers,

Drew.

 

[Becks]

Thanks for the kind answer

 

[drew]

On a second look I found this

The captain felt his muscles tense. He was aware of his two Imperial escorts docking with Caduceus as it spooled up its hyperspace drive. The fighters couldn’t jump themselves, they had to be carried through. Hyperspace was one of those things that never became routine. The moment of sending hundreds of tons of ship and personnel through an infinitesimally small multi-dimensional compression, crossing light years of real space in a fraction of a second …
Best not to think about it too much.
‘Jump ready,’ the helm officer called out.
The captain nodded. ‘Execute.’
Stars leapt towards them, dust and nebulous gas streaming past the ship at speeds beyond imagination. It was all over in seconds, accompanied by a faint surge of deceleration. It would take the on-board systems a few moments to catch up and confirm their location. Meanwhile the drive would suck power as it spooled up again, ready to perform the next jump of the sequence.
‘Jump secure,’ the navigation officer said.
That was welcome news. Occasionally ships might suffer a failed jump and re-emerge … somewhere else. You never found out where; they never came back to tell.

Cheers,

Drew.