Stuck in hyper space

Lord Skimper wrote:There has been talk that something can happen and one can get stuck in hyperspace. Which is generally viewed as bad. But if one is stuck in hyper space couldn't one survive and perhaps thrive or be rescued? One could get stuck unable to turn but one could slow down and stop and await rescue or call for help.

Lord Skimper wrote:One could even have a warshawski sail to re-energize ones power reserves, unless one has to be moving to use them for that? Although a forte in hyperspace with a sail could go anywhere in hyperspace.

Weird Harold wrote:I'm not sure if it was the Honorverse or some other SF series, but IIRC prolonged stays in Hyperspace drive people crazy.

Weird Harold wrote:Warshawski Sails only work in grav waves.

Chief Killian held Fearless's place in the outbound queue without further orders, and Honor punched up Engineering as they neared the departure beacon. Commander Santos appeared on her small com screen.

"Commander. Stand by to reconfigure to Warshawski sail on my command."

"Aye, Ma'am. Standing by to reconfigure."

Honor nodded, watching the freighter ahead of them drift further forward, hesitate for just an instant, and then blink out of visibility. The numeral on her maneuvering display changed to "1," and she turned to Webster and quirked an eyebrow, waiting out the seconds until he nodded.

"We're cleared to transit, Ma'am," he reported.

"Very good. Transmit my thanks to Junction Central," she said, and looked back at Chief Killian. "Take us in, Helm."

"Aye, aye, Ma'am."

Fearless drifted forward at a mere twenty gravities' acceleration, aligning herself perfectly on the invisible rails of the Junction, and Honor watched her display intently. Thank God for computers. If she'd had to work out the math for this sort of thing, she'd probably have cut her own throat years ago, but computers didn't mind if the person using them was a mathematical idiot. All they needed was the right input, and, unlike certain Academy instructors she could name, they didn't wait with exaggerated patience until they got it, either.
Fearless's light code flashed bright green as the cruiser settled into exact position, and Honor nodded to Santos.

"Rig foresail for transit."

"Aye, aye, Ma'am. Rigging foresail—now."

No observer would have noted any visible change in the cruiser, but Honor's instrumentation told the tale as Fearless's impeller wedge dropped abruptly to half-strength. Her forward nodes no longer generated their portion of the normal-space stress bands; instead, they had reconfigured to produce a circular disk of focused gravitation that extended for over three hundred kilometers in every direction from the cruiser's hull. The Warshawski sail, useless in normal-space, was the secret of hyper travel, and the Junction was simply a focused funnel of hyper-space, like the eye of a hurricane frozen forever in normal-space terms.

boballab wrote:

Weird Harold wrote:Warshawski Sails only work in grav waves.

That is incorrect, they are also used to transit Wormhole Juunctions:...

Torch of Freedom
Chapter Twenty-seven
wrote:The numbers suddenly stopped flashing. They went on climbing, but their steadiness told Zachary the foresail was drawing enough power from the terminus' grav waves to provide movement.

Weird Harold wrote:
A Wormhole Junction is just a Hyperspace grave wave that touches N-Space.

Just one of several textev:

Torch of Freedom
Chapter Twenty-seven
wrote:The numbers suddenly stopped flashing. They went on climbing, but their steadiness told Zachary the foresail was drawing enough power from the terminus' grav waves to provide movement.

boballab wrote:Incorrect again. The quote I provided tells you that a Wormhole Bridge is nothing more than focused Hyperspace NOT a Grav Wave and the the example you gave just points out that the Terminus of a Wormhole Bridge PRODUCES Grav Waves not is one, just like a Star produces Grav Waves that can effect a ship in Hyper that gets too close.

boballab wrote:Incorrect again. The quote I provided tells you that a Wormhole Bridge is nothing more than focused Hyperspace NOT a Grav Wave and the the example you gave just points out that the Terminus of a Wormhole Bridge PRODUCES Grav Waves not is one, just like a Star produces Grav Waves that can effect a ship in Hyper that gets too close.

Weird Harold wrote:
A Wormhole Junction is just a Hyperspace grave wave that touches N-Space.

Just one of several textev:

Torch of Freedom
Chapter Twenty-seven
wrote:The numbers suddenly stopped flashing. They went on climbing, but their steadiness told Zachary the foresail was drawing enough power from the terminus' grav waves to provide movement.

More Than Honor, The Universe of Honor Harrington, (1) Background (General) wrote:In addition to his inertial compensator, Dr. Radhakrishnan also enjoys the credit for being the first to develop the math to predict and detect wormhole junctions, although the first was not actually detected until 1447 pd, many years after his death. The mechanism of the junction is still imperfectly understood, but for all intents and purposes a junction is a "gravity fault," or a gravitic distortion so powerful as to fold hyper-space and breach the interface between it and normal-space. The result is a direct point-to-point congruence between points in normal-space which are seldom separated by less than 100 light-years and may be separated by several thousand. A hyper drive is required to utilize them, and ships cannot maintain stability or course control through a wormhole junction without Warshawski Sails. Nonetheless, the movement from normal-space to normal-space is effectively instantaneous, regardless of the distance traversed, and the energy cost is negligible.

Honor Among Enemies, Chapter 9 wrote:The helmsman sent Wayfarer creeping forward once more, following sedately behind the two ships still in front of her, and Honor felt herself tense inwardly, ever so slightly. Although it was called a "wormhole" by spacers and the public, astrophysicists decried the misuse of that term. It wasn't totally inappropriate, but in effect the Junction was a crack in the universe where a grav wave even more powerful than one of the "Roaring Deeps" had breached the wall between hyper-space and normal-space. For all intents and purposes, it was a frozen funnel of h-space, and not a calm one, for the grav wave twisting endlessly through it was extremely potent. Impellers couldn't be used for the actual transit, and proper alignment required exquisitely accurate astrogation. One of Honor's Academy instructors had described it as "shooting a tsunami in a kayak," and she'd never encountered a better analogy.