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So, here's a tactical question that's been bugging me for several days now. Say you have access to FTL travel - which is essentially teleportation in space. Let's also say that you can create the effect without necessarily using a ship. That is to say, the engine driving this mode of travel doesn't require being in a spaceship in order to function. If that's the case then what's to stop an attacker from just attaching an FTL engine to a large comet or what have you, punching in some coordinates, then sending the rock/iceball to appear oh, right in the middle of a space station?
BOOM!
There could be some interesting hypothetical effects from doing that. If the FTL-moving object is large enough it's gravity alone would wreak havoc. It get's even more interesting if you have to convert the FTL-moving object into dark energy/matter or anti-matter in order to achieve the effect. What if the FTL method is actually distorting space itself? Can two objects collide or merge together while space is warped?
That, in and of itself, is an intriguing idea for a sci-fi story.
In my concept of slipspace there is a gravity distortion generated upon entering or leaving slipspace. The wave is proportional to the mass of the object entering/exiting. For this reason if there are multiple objects the largest has to be the last to enter and the first to leave or the distortion it generates could destroy the smaller objects. Imagine the utter havoc endured to learn that fact. ^.^
BOOM!
There could be some interesting hypothetical effects from doing that. If the FTL-moving object is large enough it's gravity alone would wreak havoc. It get's even more interesting if you have to convert the FTL-moving object into dark energy/matter or anti-matter in order to achieve the effect. What if the FTL method is actually distorting space itself? Can two objects collide or merge together while space is warped?
That, in and of itself, is an intriguing idea for a sci-fi story.
In my concept of slipspace there is a gravity distortion generated upon entering or leaving slipspace. The wave is proportional to the mass of the object entering/exiting. For this reason if there are multiple objects the largest has to be the last to enter and the first to leave or the distortion it generates could destroy the smaller objects. Imagine the utter havoc endured to learn that fact. ^.^
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