Fletcher DeLancey
Not that I know of -- but it would be cool if there were!
Base space is my answer to the issue of traversing vast distances while still leaving in some realistic limitations. Even at 10,000x faster than light, it still takes many days to cross large expanses, leaving room for things to go wrong or situations to change while people are in transit. And there are only so many entry/exit points (by the beacons), so ships can't emerge exactly where they want to be.
I wanted to create a universe in which our protagonists can't be whisked out of trouble by "magic" solutions -- which is why I also don't have any sort of teleportation. That does make things considerably harder, as you'll see in Catalyst, the fourth novel of the Chronicles of Alsea. It's the first book after The Caphenon that focuses more on Captain Serrado and Dr. Lhyn Rivers, both of whom have adventures that are in some way affected by these kinds of technological limitations.
Base space is my answer to the issue of traversing vast distances while still leaving in some realistic limitations. Even at 10,000x faster than light, it still takes many days to cross large expanses, leaving room for things to go wrong or situations to change while people are in transit. And there are only so many entry/exit points (by the beacons), so ships can't emerge exactly where they want to be.
I wanted to create a universe in which our protagonists can't be whisked out of trouble by "magic" solutions -- which is why I also don't have any sort of teleportation. That does make things considerably harder, as you'll see in Catalyst, the fourth novel of the Chronicles of Alsea. It's the first book after The Caphenon that focuses more on Captain Serrado and Dr. Lhyn Rivers, both of whom have adventures that are in some way affected by these kinds of technological limitations.
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