penny wrote:Perhaps the Ghost Captain got a tip that that ship is headed to Bolthole. And maybe there are ways that a Ghost ship can affix itself to the hull of a GA ship. I always thought there were random places on a ship where large items can be attached for transport in an emergency. Perhaps the spider “legs” can attach themselves to more than just the hyper wall.
Well, yes, they could. They are supersized tractors after all. So they could be used for the purpose they were supersized from: tractoring things or onto things.
The GA ship would definitely have places where things could be attached to. We've had pods limpeted to the hull for a decade now. The top and underside of the wedge ship are also usually devoid of openings and protuberances because there's no point: a sensor there would only see up to the wedge, which is usually opaque enough.
But I don't think this would go unnoticed by the other ship. The increase in mass would be noticeable and anything bigger than a LAC would distort the compensator field, the wedge geometry, and the hypergenerator's bubble. Even a LAC does and required that Thunder of God realign its geometries to transport the Masadan tiny LACs to the Yeltsin's Star system.
What's more, if the GA ship is transiting through the Calvin Wormhole, it means it will drop to sails, which will expose the ventral and dorsal of the ship to all observers, including traffic control and the defenders of the Haven side. They would see the blob of dark attached to the hull of the ship about to transit.