Re: Slingshotting ships with gravity wells in SJ

> and using crushed mana crystals in suspension is arefinement of the
> old technique: tossing whole crystals into the furnace.  it used to
> be that you'd have an expert gemologist or lapidary onboard, whose
> job it was to evaluate the regularity of mana crystals.  knowing
> this, combined with a measurement of the crystal's smallest
> dimension, you could calculate roughly how long it would take the
> crystal to "catch" in the furnace fires.  but it was never exact, so
> sometimes your burst would come a few seconds, or even minutes, early
> or late, due to unseen or misunderstood imperfections in the crystal.
> space travel is much safer now, because you can predict within less
> than a second when the boost will kick in.  crushing mana crystals
> without releasing their energy is still a complex (al)chemical
> process, so it's not something you can do aboard ship, generally, and
> certainly not something you can do in a hurry.  so, sometimes, ships
> are still forced to utilize an un-crushed crystal in an emergency
> (horribly off-course, out of speed boost, but found an asteroid with
> some crystals).
>
> woodelf                <*>

Good ideas.  I think I'll have the power potions (for lack of a current
better phrase) sold only at specific points - and by the Necromancers of the
sphere, thus why the Order hasn't wiped them out.  :)

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