Re: SJ Speed

Hello everyone,

In our last episode, gaijin@???????.???.net said:
>>	Besides, didn't anybody tell you that there's a natural resonance
>>that accures which makes 100mmpd a "natural" speed?  That's why a 1st
>>level mage -- who can only pilot a ship at SR 1 -- can fly just as
>>fast as a high level one.  It's a "path of least resistance" which the
>>arcane, and all other helm designers, take into account.  It simply takes
>>too much power to go faster -- and oddly enough, *slower* -- than the
>>normal SJ speed of 100mmpd.
>
>	I suppose that I could explain it away that way, but I prefer to assume
>that there just hasn't been enough research into SJ to make an advance yet.
> Then someone comes up with an idea like Fast Helms, and the technology is
>pushed forward another notch.
>	My campeign is involving advances in magic, possibly reflecting a growing
>mage population on most worlds...

	To me, such fast technological growth seems like a very modern
concept.  I just don't think that very many advances would be made in
a human lifetime in the SJ universe.  Maybe one new helm type would be 
created, or several related types based on a new technology, but not 
this endless stream of inventions.  That is, unless these weren't 
*new* inventions, just tech from several spheres away that's taken
close to a century to finally become "accepted" locally.

	Alas, it all comes down to gaming styles... :)

-Static

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