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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      1/ in science fiction novels and TTRPGs there are three common models of FTL: (a) point-to-point from any location to any other location (b) point-to-point from any star to any other (c) undirected graph (i.e. some possible connections exist between stars, some don't)

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      2/ These 3 choices are multiplied by 2 "cost" scenarios: (a) all jumps are equal cost (in fuel / time / whatever) (b) jumps have a cost that is somewhere between linear and squared of real-world distance This gives 6 different ways to construct a fictional universe.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      3/ Star Wars is point-to-point, same cost (I think). Star Trek is point-to-point, different [ time ] cost. Forever War is star [ or rather, collapsar ] to star, different [ time ] cost. Traveller is ...I forget? star to star? graph? Niven's Known Space is graph >>>

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      4/ [ this is memorably illustrated in The Mote in God's Eye where the exit point for the Moatie's system is inside a red giant star ]

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      5/ Last night I had an idea pop into my head, and I don't think I've ever seen it before: DIRECTED graphs what if you can travel from Sol to Alpha Centauri, but not the reverse? or, perhaps, Sol -> AC @ cost 1, AC -> Sol @ cost 2

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      6/ "trade winds"pic.twitter.com/JzBVJpLr96

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Forsooth

      7/ too slow old man, that's what this entire thread is about!https://twitter.com/forsoothic/status/1499452351350022151 …

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      Forsooth @forsoothic
      Replying to @MorlockP
      This implies an unexplored space of (d) directed graph that would be really interesting. Size of cycles becomes incredibly important! How would a galactic empire be structured around such a graph?
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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      8/ a variant on the directed-graph model is that the directions / weights of the links change over time ...which brings you into Mark Twain, riverboat pilot situations

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      9/ but even without adding that complication, I like the simpler "directed cyclic flows" Imaging that Earth is a node in two cycles, one of length 5, one of length 10 obviously ships can circulate the 5 cycle faster than the 10 ...and going 1 node "upstream" on the 5 (4 down)

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      10/ is faster. This implies interesting things about invasions - you can't sent fleets "upstream" except by looping ...so you have a DEW line at all up your "upstream" links, who send warnings down (maybe even a canary - 1 small ship every day if all is well)

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Forsooth

      11/ oof! ...or Sargaso Sea...https://twitter.com/forsoothic/status/1499453481257684994 …

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      Forsooth @forsoothic
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Prison colony = a sink in the graph
      10:36 AM - 3 Mar 2022
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted J.A. Sutherland SciFi Books

          12/https://twitter.com/JASutherlandBks/status/1499453642054807559 …

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          J.A. Sutherland SciFi Books @JASutherlandBks
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Carew #4, HMS Nightingale, addresses this in the Carewverse, because the winds blow mostly towards systems and mass changes transit speed, the optimal go/return paths between systems can be different [cost of time].
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

          13/ ok, gotta go read up on distributed databases ; more on this later , if at all

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Sly Tea Jar

          14/ ooh, INTERESTING!https://twitter.com/JayGSlater/status/1499462903149301763 …

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          Sly Tea Jar @JayGSlater
          Replying to @MorlockP
          I have a poorly fleshed out FTL system in my head that ditches causality: call it the Breadcrumb Drive. Trade ships cross space the slow way, but leave a trail behind them that lets them return to the space *and time* of their departure.
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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

          15/ ....hmmm... reminds me a bit of this, actuallypic.twitter.com/Y1PhrgT6dI

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 3

          16/ another FTL system I've thought of, which is a bit harder on the @KarlKGallagher scale, takes some steps to avoid causality problems: you jump form Earth to Alpha C ...and when you get there, there are no radio waves coming from Earth why? you're in a new universe

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