Timeline for Law enforcement in FTL civilization
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 5:40 | comment | added | nullpointer | @MontyHarder That brings up the problem of identity spoofing which I was trying to avoid, but in practice you're probably right. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 18:35 | comment | added | Monty Harder | Rather than not allowing any FTL within a settled system, there should be a defined area in which FTL is done under strict traffic control. (After all, we can't have FTL ships becoming kinetic weapons by colliding with each other or planets.) Your navigation systems must be able to accept a flight-plan program from the traffic control system, and if you need to deviate from that plan for any reason you must disengage the FTL drive and advise Traffic Control of your emergency, at which time they can authorize a modified plan. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 13:43 | comment | added | GretchenV | The question does not say whether there is a minimum speed nor whether it works in a gravity well. But if I can use my FTL drive planet side and if I was a criminal on a 'raid', I'd zip in at superluminal speeds, do my thing and zip out at superluminal speeds again in less than one second before the lightcone from the sensor a light-second away has reached the command and control post directing the defense batteries. Not that they have anything to shoot at as I'd be using a sort of random walk to the planet so my position cannot be predicted. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 13:26 | comment | added | nullpointer | @GretchenV Does the FTL drive have a minimum speed though? Otherwise you can still travel at 0.x the speed of light with no problems | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 13:10 | comment | added | GretchenV | Except your citizens and entrepreneurs would want to use your small, little fuel consumption and apparently acceleration neglecting FTL-drive anywhere, including take off and landing planet side. Traditional means of sublight speeds take lots of fuel (apollo capsule on top of saturn V), space and time if you don't want to be squashed. It takes 2 hours to reach the 1 light-second limit with constant 1g acceleration. I'm pretty sure many will make the argument that this is not economical. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 11:57 | history | answered | nullpointer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |