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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Dilmah G on March 13, 2009, 07:00:54 pm
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COMMAND BRIEFING 6
New Technology: Jump Drives
This mission will be facilitated by the new subspace drive we have received. For years the GTA has tried to give a fighter the ability to do intersystem jumps. After monitoring the Beta Aquilae engagements, the GTA science colony at Sol has finally been able to solve the puzzle. All GTA fighters are currently being equipped with intersystem subspace drives.
Intersystem jump drives enable a spacecraft to enter a subspace node. They are generally found on capital ships or other large craft. Through the end of the Great War, they were considered too expensive to place in small craft such as fighters except in extreme emergency, such as in the GTA's desperate attack against the SD Lucifer in subspace.
So then why does Command always make an issue out of fitting these drives on fighters when in reality they should've had them the whole time
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Didn't you do this in the SOC mission?
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Yeah, wait rephrase
In the FS2 Retail campaign, a huge deal is made out of fitting these drives on fighters, the system to system drives. Then according to the CB shouldn't all fighters be capable of it regardless? And in Transcend, they make it a huge deal with fitting system-to-system drives on the fighters (I think Transcend was it)
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I'd take the Reaching the Zenith briefing to mean that all of the active fighters and bombers in the theater of operations (or perhaps more specifically, on the Bastion herself) were getting fitted with the new drives, or at least as many as had been fabricated at the present time. As the FS2 tech room pointed out, the miniaturization required for fighter-size intersystem drives made them prohibitively expensive to deploy on any but a few select wings/squadrons at any given time, based on the specific mission requirements. One can picture maintenance teams swapping a handful of drives on and off fighters if a particular mission required intersystem jumps. The situation with the Lucifer was obviously very much the exception, as it was do-or-die for the alliance, and so every last drive available would have been put into use as-needed with no concern for the cost.
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I'd take the Reaching the Zenith briefing to mean that all of the active fighters and bombers in the theater of operations (or perhaps more specifically, on the Bastion herself) were getting fitted with the new drives, or at least as many as had been fabricated at the present time. As the FS2 tech room pointed out, the miniaturization required for fighter-size intersystem drives made them prohibitively expensive to deploy on any but a few select wings/squadrons at any given time, based on the specific mission requirements. One can picture maintenance teams swapping a handful of drives on and off fighters if a particular mission required intersystem jumps. The situation with the Lucifer was obviously very much the exception, as it was do-or-die for the alliance, and so every last drive available would have been put into use as-needed with no concern for the cost.
Yeah that makes more sense.
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Even in the previously mentioned SOC mission, the drives are only used during a very brief window. I don't think it's very practical to use so I don't think every fighter or bomber has one.
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COMMAND BRIEFING 6
New Technology: Jump Drives
This mission will be facilitated by the new subspace drive we have received. For years the GTA has tried to give a fighter the ability to do intersystem jumps. After monitoring the Beta Aquilae engagements, the GTA science colony at Sol has finally been able to solve the puzzle. All GTA fighters are currently being equipped with intersystem subspace drives.
So what would the collapse of the node have done? It's possible that every single fighter and bomber in Sol has intersystem drives by 2367, but no nodes to use them.
Intersystem jump drives enable a spacecraft to enter a subspace node. They are generally found on capital ships or other large craft. Through the end of the Great War, they were considered too expensive to place in small craft such as fighters except in extreme emergency, such as in the GTA's desperate attack against the SD Lucifer in subspace.
"The end of the Great War" meaning "the collapse of the Sol node" ?
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I think the Lucifer's destruction was the beginning of the end.
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The great war was FS1. Many missions in FS2 we start out at a node...