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Re: Non-CLAC hyper-help for LAC's
Post by SharkHunter   » Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:52 pm

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Jonathan_S wrote:And ships with hypergenerator and impellers used hyper for years before the invention of the sail - they just had to avoid, at all costs, any contact with a grav wave]

Theemile wrote:(Could a LAC leave a system on it's own? was a 2 month discussion on the board about 4 years ago)
That kind of depends on what you mean by "a system" :D
A LAC (even an old style one) should be perfectly capable of going Manticore A to Manticore B through n-space. That's only a few days flight. ;)[/quote]
Good points. In my discussion thoughts, I'd call the Manticore binary and planets, etc. out to the edges of interstellar space one system. By the way, I'd assume that the "can a LAC leave a system?" question 4 years ago to be "no"?
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Re: Non-CLAC hyper-help for LAC's
Post by SWM   » Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:26 pm

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SharkHunter wrote:
kzt wrote:AFAIK, it's the grav wave that's a problem. The LACs would be torn into very small pieces by the grav wave, even inside the hyper envelope.


Without sails they can't even enter hyper-- and it's stated in multiple places that LACs are strictly sub-light, which I have taken as mostly limiting them to whatever system they were dropped off in. Example being Sol to the Centauri system is over five light years, at .8C even with time dilation that's at least a four year journey, and the pile has to stay operational at some level for life support and particle shielding. Oxygen scrubbing, etc. makes that possible... but what does the crew eat? and 4 years in the plotted Honorverse means they'd never abandon a LAC crew to that fate. Thoughts?

The situation kzt was talking about was when the Wayfarer's LACs were ferrying crew to the Artemis. The LACs were already in hyperspace. The problem was that the Artemis was unable to bring them with her into a different hyper band.

As for LACs traveling between stars at sub-light, no, of course they can't. No one has suggested that they could do that.
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Re: Non-CLAC hyper-help for LAC's
Post by crewdude48   » Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:13 am

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SharkHunter wrote:By the way, I'd assume that the "can a LAC leave a system?" question 4 years ago to be "no"?


Of course they can leave a system. Sol's heliopause, considered by most to be the edge of the system, is only about 17 light hours out from the star. They can't get anywhere else before everybody onboard is dead, but they definitely can leave.
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