Sublight G-force Limits

[Predatar]

So for about the last hour, I've been making the trip out to Asellus Primus B, roughly a trillion mile journey(wanted to see the Brown Dwarf). I've had quite a bit of time now to think about some stuff, since the only thing to keep me company at the moment is the rumble of the frame shift drive.

Anyway, I've noticed that when I get interdicted, and I make the jump back into super cruise, I very quickly accelerate back up to the speed I was last traveling at. Kind of as if the FSD has been warmed up. So I'm going from around 500m/s to 1600c, in just a few seconds time.

So my question; is there a fiction based or developer explanation as to why we have g-force limits at sublight speeds, when our ships are capable of superluminal speeds?

It just seems like the whole blackout/redout thing is a little odd in a space ship that's capable of FTL travel. Is it maybe like the "warp bubble" theory or something?

 

[Tinman]

It's basically this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Space is distorted around the ship so you aren't really "moving" faster, instead space around you is warped.

 

[Kastor]

Yeah, a warp bubble. It's why it's called the frameshift drive, it shifts the frame of reference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

For now. Exactly how it functions is left purposefully unexplained so it doesn't become wrong as science discovers more.

Edit: heh beaten too it.

 

[Predatar]

Yeah, a warp bubble. It's why it's called the frameshift drive, it shifts the frame of reference.

Awesome, thank you. That's exactly the answer I was looking for. Kind of answered another question I had at the same time, "why do they call it frameshift"?

Thanks guys!