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Author Craft / Re: I broke physics and now it's being obnoxious.
« on: May 21, 2013, 04:15:54 PM »
There's always running the engine beyond it's capacity (Ah can give ya warp 7 for 38 seconds, cap'n, and nae more!). Leaves the option for something to be burned out/exploded afterwards/during.
Structural integrity is unlikely to play a large factor though, unless the "tow bar" isn't able to withstand Force equivalent to the engine as maximum thrust. But that would seem unlikely, in a vessel designed to withstand the kind of G forces involved in FTL travel. Especially as magnetic grapples are involved, those seem like they'd pop off before the ship damaged.
Maybe you could have multiple grapple lines due to the largeness, to spread the load, and have some of them disconnect during acceleration? Then there's the tension (hehe) of hoping the remaining line(s) hold, with the consequence of losing their ship if the last one disconnects and the ship they're in zooms off.
Structural integrity is unlikely to play a large factor though, unless the "tow bar" isn't able to withstand Force equivalent to the engine as maximum thrust. But that would seem unlikely, in a vessel designed to withstand the kind of G forces involved in FTL travel. Especially as magnetic grapples are involved, those seem like they'd pop off before the ship damaged.
Maybe you could have multiple grapple lines due to the largeness, to spread the load, and have some of them disconnect during acceleration? Then there's the tension (hehe) of hoping the remaining line(s) hold, with the consequence of losing their ship if the last one disconnects and the ship they're in zooms off.