Re: David Drake - Leary and the RCN


"James Nicoll" <jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Oh, good. I can recycle an obsession of mine:

The "continentals" are in a region where the interstellar medium
is very dense.

Is this known to exist or based on observed conditions?

Their ships are optimized for that region. The "naval"
power has much faster ship that tend to die if they slam into the
desne cloud at full speed.

I was thinking of a more technological kludge. Assuming that in-system
vessels would have an advantage because they don't have to carry huge
mucking interstellar engines and fuel isn't a stretch. Nor that those
engines are useless in-system, especially if the handwave FTL is similar to
the oft-used 'hyperpace' jump where you have to be a certain distance from
large gravity sources.

That is easy to conjure up. Making a distinction between near star
distances and far star distances seems more authorially difficult. Maybe
the gravity disturbance of relatively close stars?


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