Talk:AFOH/@comment-13235970-20150920043957/@comment-13235970-20151013044143

Yeah, Like I said, just because it's capable of a hypothetical top speed of C doesn't mean it'll ever reach it. Because it uses an off-board energy supply, it can continue accelerating to C if it really, really wanted to. But it would take.......... forever. Because it would have to do it slowly or the fighter would break due to G-force, as you noted.

Now on the turning... Yeah. I'll admit, you got me there. Slipspace was going to help with turning because I was saying that it could enter slip-space, turn, and then exit slip-space. RTH, brought up the point in chat though, that while the fighter would be turned around, it's velocity would still be in the same direction.

After thinking about it though I'm ok with ^that. Just because my velocity is still in the original direction doesn't mean I haven't outmaneuvered you anyway.

(*DarkWolf Warps behind enemy fighter... enemy is still dead either way.)

The partial-slipspace bit was referring to what is essentially hyper-space. Jump, most of the ship, into hyperspace... but propel it with the engines that are still normal dimension. Hyperdrive physics can still interact with the physical world. And the physics of hyperspace, would stop the G-forces from ripping apart the plane or killing the pilot, when the plane diverts obscene amounts of energy to the Ion Engine.

The drawbacks to this plane, which stop it from going too far down the OP road, are:

A. Cost: We're talking about a warp drive, two warp gates, lasers, and the extremely high energy consumption in combat. These factors alone are going to limit it to a very small production run, under 100 or so (and we're talking end game production, like that's it.)

B. Because of it's extensive electronics, warp drives and such, it'll be a pretty fragile plane. Won't go any faster in atmospheric conditions than like mach 2, though it'll still be able to warp. Also, of course. it'd be destroyed easily when hit. (that's the trick though, hitting it).

P.S. We have been granted permission to access UAC research on slip-space/hyperspace, which would include salvaged Sith hyper-drives. We also traded for laser technology, and have been researching highly efficient warp-drives for the last six months, so I'm really, truly not, just pulling this out of my rear end.