It's electro-magnetic. Once you enter the lane, it sucks your metalic ship along at high speed.




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ok lol that answers that question

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damn! I had a theory about it bending space..


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Never knew that. Thanks.

@Tawakalna, u only to bend time or space if u wanna go faster then light...

the idea off that kind off electric magnetic lines r old... their was already some1 who wanna let a bullet-train inside thus electricmagnetic rings, the speed off the train would be about 2 times the speed off sound... but it would be a disaster when their is a powerdrain with supply the rings.

If u c some1 in a dagger make fireballs from hunters it can be me

wouldnt the train slow down though?

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@ FF: Eventually, the train would slow down but not before doing a lot of damage to itself (its contents) and the magnetic "track" unless it is designed
also to have wheels throughout the train ... which sort of defeats the purpose.

I believe they are called "maglevs" and if I remember correctly, I think they are building the first working version somewhere in the PRC.

@BC & PB: I kind of thought the same as Taw that it was some kind of near-warp or pseudo-warp accelerator because I never saw a collision when ships wandered through a trade lane route while the lane was being used. I'm not sure because a lot of the bar talk includes pirates bragging that they shoved an asteroid into a lane path to block traffic and in SP, Hovis cautions Trent to be careful when using the old trade lane on the way to the Glorious being unstable (when actually it is defunct) because of all of the debris.

Electro magnetic works for me except that I don't get the flame effects if that's what they are when you enter.

I, too, tend to think of it as a sort of massive, super-powerful mass-driver.

Then again, they're supposedly based on artifact tech, so they might be a sort of controlled phase-out wormhole deal, like a toned-down jumpgate.

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I was thinking along the same lines as Taw...but the magnetic explanation is kinda cool...

It's just some nifty device that makes cool sounds and light effects (for added drama) while your ship passes em, using its own engine..

SFC

Edited by - SFC on 24-10-2003 18:02:30

wahahaha. super-luminal. press F9 and read the info. it says the trade lane works by initiating a mini-jump gate yadada and boom u go fast and the debris prevent too fat tata.

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rats! Puke took my idea

@Dragon - You only HAVE to bend time/space to go faster than light. You can do it other times too

the trade lane releases cardamine into the ship and then takes over on auto pilot. While you're distracted by the pretty colors and loose your sense of time, you're actually going at cruise engine speed to your destination. Once there, the cardamine is stopped, and you regain your sense of time, thinking only seconds have passed. --- RR16

Whoever came up with "Mission Commision" should be lined up and shot

if that were true ud see alot players in ny going round and round the tradelanes ..cause theyd all be stoned and not want to go anywhere elselol

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