Re: Slingshot effect

>Hi all,
>    While trying to guess what T$R's upcoming Chronomancer accessory
>(which deals with time-travel) will be like, a question arose.  In a
>Spelljamming environment is it possible to do the classic Star Trek
>maneuver of slingshotting around the sun to achieve time travel.
>Granted, the ship would have to have a high SR rating and a high level
>person at the Helm.  Of course, staying at the edge of the sun's gravity
>well would be difficult maneuver, but it could provide for some
>interesting adventures.
>
>Comments?
>
>Erick Slazinski
>sla329@???.???.??????????.com
>
>
>
If you're talking about level of helmsman , or for that matter, staying in a
gravity well, you're talking tactical speeds, not spelljamming speeds which
is fixed for everyone independant of level, and comes nowhere near 'jamming
speeds. The only way to go faster, when 'jamming (ie"warp" speed) is with a
Grand Helm (twice as fast, but restricted to wild space). I doubt there will
be "techniques" for Time Travel, just spells, items, and psionics.

Thank You For Your Time,

Thomas O Magann Jr
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