Also I might add that we do not know the astrography of the Darius System. It
could be that the conditions of the grav waves near the Darius System are ripe for lending obvious tactical and strategic advantages to the streak drive and the spider drive. Just because we cannot see tactical uses in the known HV does not mean tactical uses does not exist in ‘Oz’ (Darius) where the Mad Wizard can work his magic. Tactical advantages might become evident in the Darius System. Tack on the fact that we do not know what advantages the Spider Drive itself might already possess over Impellers in specific conditions that might exist in hyperspace. The Darius System might make the Roaring Deeps seem like a kiddie pool. As well as other heretofore abnormal previously unpresented phenomena. If a spider ship can enter hyper without sails, or even if a spider ship can bring up its sails almost instantly, and if when outside the hyper limit the Darius System has higher bands that are directly accessible then a tactical advantage is quite clear. “Where did they go?”
IOW, consider the phrase “a solution in search of a problem.” The tactical advantages of the streak drive could be a solution in search of the correct astrography.
Jonathan_S wrote:If RFC had wanted to clearly imply that they each had some tactical advantage it would instead be written as "despite the tactical advantages". That precludes the possibility that one or both have none.
Again, I don’t think the author would have even gone there if there didn’t exist somewhere in Oz where the Mad Wizard might work his magic.
I doubt he’d’ve even brought it up if the possibility didn’t exist and therefore needed broaching. Why even use “tactical” and “streak drive” in the same sentence together if there is no possibility.
The Darius System might just be Oz, although there also could be, as of yet unknown to his readers, areas of the known HV that the Wizard has not shared with his readers which just might include a tactical advantage for the streak drive.
For instance, in Oz the astrography that exists in hyperspace might make the Tellerman Wave and the Roaring Deeps look and feel like kiddie pools.
It also could be that the author acknowledged his own limitations and allowed for a more ingenious Admiral to see what he himself might not. An Admiral who thinks he is invincible is beaten by his own rhetoric.
If your enemy sees what you fail to see, then he will beat you to it then beat you with it. I don’t mean to brag, because what goes on behind closed doors should stay behind closed doors. But I learned that from Honor. Honor talks in her sleep, right along with her many nightmares. Nightmares that frighten Freddy Kruger.
But I digress. Who is to say the MAN will not depart from the norm and fight its battles outside of the hyper limit. Their ships cannot be seen anyway. Imagine Grand Fleet hypering into the Darius System and preparing to target the System with MDMs as it did before. Not knowing there are LDs and other ordnance and infrastructure positioned behind it.
Engagements usually do not occur outside the hyper limit of a star. Darius Prime is it?, is said to be a beautiful planet and a beautiful system. I think it was Thinksmarkedly who pointed out that there mightn’t be military emplacements cluttering up what is described as such a beautiful planet. I pointed out that stealthy ships, weapons, weapons emplacements, platforms and infrastructure would not clutter up a serene environment.
“The MBS’s new space stations that are under construction are built with powerful self-defense capability.” Says textev. Dunno what that means, but what’s good for the RMN is good for the MAN.
Also, I wonder if an entire space station can enter hyperspace. One with streak drive abilities may be able to enter a band inaccessible to impellers when the enemy arrives. And that space station can be located outside the limit since it cannot be seen.
The astrography in Darius space might contain a region of hyperspace that is dominated solely by higher bands.
A spider drive’s tactical advantage waiting for an amenable tactical situation? The Darius System just might provide that. Indeed, the Darius System just might’ve been the inspiration for the Alignments unprecedented tech. The brainstorm and the tech may be a product of the System. Necessity is the Mother of Invention. If the system itself contains regions of n-space that would put a ship entering hyper directly into contact with higher bands.
penny wrote: As I indicated, I think it would be more prudent, and accurate, to say that that passage infers instead of implies.
tlb wrote: In written text, the author implies and the reader infers.
Except that I was attributing super human qualities to the passage. Because, as one of your own posts asserts, the author is leaving himself some wiggle room. But I think it goes farther than that. The author does not want to serve this wine before its time. He falls short of implying it. But the passage contains an Omen. A sign. It becomes human, inferring it for him. The passage becomes the reader.
I keep telling the forum that language is not, and was not, meant to be a static entity. Grammar and rules are a base in which to set up operations for discussion and agreement.
”Language learns itself”. As a professor of philosophy once wrote in her book.
If indeed there was one language in the beginning of mankind. And if indeed that language was so efficient it allowed man to build a tower to heaven. If indeed that language was so powerful that it caused God – if indeed there is a God – to scatter that only spoken, unified language because it was too powerful for mankind's own good... then indeed... language learns itself. Trying to reach its former glory.
Language is not meant to be static. One cannot consult a dictionary to read between certain lines.
Methinks at times I am a bit too cerebral.
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The artist formerly known as cthia.
Now I can talk in the third person.
