On Tuesday 16 August 2005 01:54 pm, JR wrote: > > > Woof watches the return to the boat. "I'm thinking we should > > > > just splash > > > > > that other craft, Cory, since it'll be a loose end if we > > > > don't... What do > > > > > you think?" > > > > Cory thinks for a second before responding, "I'd prefer to take > > them back to > > Mark and have them charged or at least interrogated so any others > > involved > > can be put away. I'm also still worried about the local > > authorities. We don't > > want warrents for us floating between the worlds. On the other > > hand, if we > > force them down and capture them, then we could lift in their > > ship and then > > salvage it, of course, which would greatly increase the > > profitability of this > > jaunt. Not to mention the ships flight records could really shed > > some light > > on their and possibly their bosses past endeavors. Not that we have to > > capture them to get at their ship but it might make it easier. I > > guess if we > > splash them, as you so aptly put it, I could always forge a > > warrent for the > > vessel from Mark. Jac might could make sure it was upheld after the fact, > > just for the intel value, but then we run the risk of a back fire > > leaving us > > wanted on two worlds. Oh and by the way, you do know that grav vehicle is > > worth a few K which makes splashing appear rather wasteful." > > OOG: Is this being broadcasted to the /Blue Rain/? > OOC: If the channel is covered, I don't see why it wouldn't be as I'd imagine the link would be duplex. ie think sat com today or even spread spectrum. I'm not sure in Eris's world because the lack of ICs would impact the price of com equipment not to mention the space constraints assuming encryption in the future is still modulus and rotation functions just done in tubes or widely spaced fets. If the latter is true, then encryption which could be contained in a starship would be easily broken by land based (non grav field) computational devices. Demodulation of spread spectrum info would also be exceptionally difficult because with power spread over the spectrum we end of with a need for discrete components needing an exceptional bandwidth or the Fourier expansion (ie 3rd 4th 5th 6th... harmonic) wont transmit. Eris ruling????? -- Earl F Hampton http://hamiii.sytes.net/index.phtml
