[S-99]

This may be a highly retarded subject, but i wonder if gti was ever researching teleportation. That'd be really cool to fight a rogue gti with working teleporters. Not to mention stirring up the rest of the galaxy with not the invention, but the security breach.
Idk how gtva would handle that.
Might make a sweet campaign. Good thing the shivans can't teleport.

[Turey]

The hell?

Who needs teleportation when you have subspace?

[S-99]

True on that. But i was talking about the normal sight to sight transporters for like cargo, people, and ****. After that i can see using subspace as a speedy long range medium for transmission to any coordinates in system for rematerialization on something like a planet. It'd be a huge security breach, i don't see any way how the gtva could fend off something like the ntf hijacking allied ships just by teleporting there troops onto an orion from a remote place in the system or something.

[Mefustae]

But  that introduces a whole host of universe issues. I mean, if they can teleport troops in, why not teleport a Helios warhead onto the bridge of an enemy Orion? Why not teleport mines into the path of enemy fighters? Why use small transports like the Argo and Elysium when you can just teleport? Why worry about finite amounts of missiles in your fighter when you can just teleport more in there at will?

It shakes up the Freespace universe too damn much and would just complicate an already overcomplicated technological landscape. Moreover, the entire concept is just silly.

[S-99]

I'm just saying if one of the rogue elements in the fs universe invented teleportation. Like gti or ntf having teleportation, in the meantime that leaves the gtva with transports and stuff while they try to find a way to block teleportation. And yeah cool stuff like teleporting helioses onto bridges and what not.

And unto the last post with the ridiculous things happening with the transporting more missiles into your fighter bays at will, that's a little over extensive i think. Just teleporting more missiles into your empty missile bays, i don't really see needing happening, people who use teleportation would still use freighters, transports, and even re-arming vessels. In star trek the whole transporters business doesn't become ridiculous, otherwise the crew of voyager would just teleport home with multiple teleports.

Yes teleportation would further complicate the universe and definitely unbalance it. But, it'd be fun, propose rather not an invincible super destroyer, but normal fs operations for something like the ntf with a new unique way to conduct operations that would be very hard to repel and prevent.
On the other hand i'm a fan of unbalance and complication.

[aldo_14]

Star Trek technology is blatantly ridiculous.  Why else do you think they had to start breaking stuff like replicators in Voyager (and then introduce a technological deus-ex machina to finish the series) before finally abandoning it all and setting the final (?) series in the 'past'?

[fsi.scsi]

One word: Sync.

[Charismatic]

It shakes up the Freespace universe too damn much and would just complicate an already overcomplicated technological landscape. Moreover, the entire concept is just silly.

Seconded.

[S-99]

Yeah the last episode of voyager blew monkey balls (why couldn't they make it like a 4 parter or something that didn't have to do with the producers kid in amazement from the batmobile armor).
I forgot about sync. Nodeless jumping and all that. Although it was somewhat unstable technology. Why  use some special transportation technology when it already exists, like what someone else here said. Just the fact that you can travel through subspace anywhere in ships is pretty much teleportation right there almost. I wonder if gtva has experimented by sending people in space suits through subspace portals or something like that? Then comes the applicability of doing something like opening a subspace vortex on the bridge of a ship.

[General Battuta]

No, what happens when you start sending people through subspace vortexes is Transcend.

And no one wants Transcend. 

[Mav]

But  that introduces a whole host of universe issues. I mean, if they can teleport troops in, why not teleport a Helios warhead onto the bridge of an enemy Orion? Why not teleport mines into the path of enemy fighters? Why use small transports like the Argo and Elysium when you can just teleport? Why worry about finite amounts of missiles in your fighter when you can just teleport more in there at will?

It shakes up the Freespace universe too damn much and would just complicate an already overcomplicated technological landscape. Moreover, the entire concept is just silly.

Well, I'd say what can be done with it would depend on how precise it is - it'd be an experimental technology, after all.
For example, it'd make a nice mission to keep those bombers at least 3km off of your capship or else it'll get some "enlightnment" (i.e. some Helios [=sun] to it's bridge) .

And who said the Shivans can't? I really don't think they've already thrown everything they have at the GTVA... I'd rather think they (or rather "us"; see sig ) just got started warming up...