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Henrik.Balslev
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| bobenhotep wrote: | no you cant follow them in hyperspace. what do you think this is, star t**k?
had to say it... |
so how did Fett "follow" Solo to bespin?
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Didn't he just calculate what was in the direction that Han went and essentiually use his intelligence and knowledge of Han's known associates to figure it out?
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even easier. he knows the ship is damaged (scan, looking, etc)
you can see the direction he went when he left (hyperspace is straight line)
then just look at the first planet!
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Fallon Kell
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I don't think hyperspace is a straight line. Otherwise why do you have to plot a course? Hyperspace trade routes are curvy, and it stands to reason that hyperjumps are too.
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| Fallon Kell wrote: | | I don't think hyperspace is a straight line. Otherwise why do you have to plot a course? Hyperspace trade routes are curvy, and it stands to reason that hyperjumps are too. |
If you go off the hyperspace route shown in the Essential Atlas, Bespin was the next system over from Hoth, so it would've been any easy connection to make.
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Fallon Kell
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Do we even know whether a straight line in realspace translates to a straight line in hyperspace?
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| Henrik.Balslev wrote: | | bobenhotep wrote: | no you cant follow them in hyperspace. what do you think this is, star t**k?
had to say it... |
so how did Fett "follow" Solo to bespin? |
IIRC Han didn't go into hyperspace when he went to bespin. They went there cause they needed their hyperdrive fixed.
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| Fallon Kell wrote: | | I don't think hyperspace is a straight line. Otherwise why do you have to plot a course? Hyperspace trade routes are curvy, and it stands to reason that hyperjumps are too. |
Also, an old seadog like Han would have made a short jump in the wrong direction, changed direction and jumped again...
Having the Baddies follow the characters is really hard if you get to logical about it. The 'double jump' procedure takes away the possibility of calculating trajectories, possible destinations along the path and such even if one accept that idea in the first place.
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| garhkal wrote: | | IIRC Han didn't go into hyperspace when he went to bespin. They went there cause they needed their hyperdrive fixed. |
I think that's part of why WEG introduced the backup hyperdrive concept. Even with neighboring systems, a sublight interstellar voyage would take years, rather than the weeks or so that it seemed to take in-universe.
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| crmcneill wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | IIRC Han didn't go into hyperspace when he went to bespin. They went there cause they needed their hyperdrive fixed. |
I think that's part of why WEG introduced the backup hyperdrive concept. Even with neighboring systems, a sublight interstellar voyage would take years, rather than the weeks or so that it seemed to take in-universe. |
What are you talking about? You mean those weren't Han and Leia's identical grandchildren?
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I thought that's why he mentioned close by system.. somethig they could sublight to in a few days..
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| garhkal wrote: | | I thought that's why he mentioned close by system.. somethig they could sublight to in a few days.. |
All he said about distance was "Bespin's pretty far, but I think we can make it." I prefer the backup hyperdrive route because it sidesteps all the pesky issues with relativity and time dilation with high sublight acceleration.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| crmcneill wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | IIRC Han didn't go into hyperspace when he went to bespin. They went there cause they needed their hyperdrive fixed. |
I think that's part of why WEG introduced the backup hyperdrive concept. |
That is why WEG introduced the backup hyperdrive. Well, that and the fact that stranding the PCs 10 years from the next inhabited planet in a ship that only carries 2 months supplies does not make for most people's ideas of a fun campaign. |
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