StealthSeeker wrote:SWM wrote:I had thought that there was something in the Pearls specifically saying that hyper generators will not fit on a missile, but I guess not. The Pearls do state that hyper generators are very large; the size of a courier boat is primarily due to the size of the alpha nodes and the hyper generator. At a wild guess, the smallest a hyper missile could be is the size of a LAC; your opinion may vary.
As for the microjumping capability, you are hypothesizing new tech. It is impossible to properly discuss new tech because (by definition) we have no text evidence by which to judge whether it is possible. All you can do is hand-wave. It is not a productive conversation.
Ahhh yes, maybe it is useless and unproductive, but imagining something new and different is a great deal of fun. As proof, I give you this whole series of Honorverse books. (and many others)
I think the idea is that we need something better grounded in the Honorverse's known state-of-the-art to really get our teeth into.
Given what we know, very rapid and very accurate microjumps aren't on the table or in the foreseeable future. For all I know, the current hypergenerator cycle times may be almost a law of nature, they may represent a fairly stable state of the art, or they may be a state of the art that's open to significant near-term improvement. (I'd plunk down for the fairly stable state of the art as a default assumption.) Most of us are going to hold back real enthusiastic forum speculation to the ideas that don't strike us as a big departure from what we figure is possible.
