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From:     Static <eshum@??????.???.com>
Date:     Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:50:23 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:  Re: Still about teleport
Greetings all,

In our last episode, Jan Korpelainen said:
[snip]
>2) Someone asked about teleporting to a small object in space. Ok, IF
>there was a small target in wildspace without it's own gravity well, it
>could not be teleported on without knowing its location. Problem in here
>is that according to spelljammer-system, Each material object does have
>its own gravity well, unless it is in the gravity well of some larger
>object (remember, each object takes its own air envelope as it leaves the
>ship).

	Actually, any object with a dimension > 20' has it's own gravity.
You can have air withour gravity.  (Hmm... maybe it was > 25'.  Can't
remember. (: )

>- Interesting point there btw, I have never really tried to figure that
>out too carefully, but how fast would a ship engaging in heavy and regular
>combat lose its air envelope just by using its large weapons? ;-)
>I sort of doubt the loss would be serious enough to bother with, but still
>an interesting point.

	The loss could get pretty big, since an object takes ~27 it's
volume in air with it.

-Static

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Still about teleport    Jan Korpelainen    30 Jun 1997 09:00:59
Re: Still about teleport    Static    30 Jun 1997 17:50:23

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