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Joat42 wrote:

SharkHunter wrote:Similar question to fanfic but different: at what level is "enough tech" considered Honorverse, and when is it not? that is, the idea of going colony to cryo to multiplier's of lightspeed isn't new, fusion engines, not, grav waves, I presume not, wormholes not, but as soon as you say "grav based impellers", and Warshawski sails" obviously you've crossed a line. Same thing for "bomb pumped laser heads" and "grav lensing" crossing lines, but...

AKA I enjoy it here, but wanna "play" resulting in a community a la the Grantville Gazette, what think y'all?

Bomb pumped lasers exists, it's the grav lensing that's a bit impractical.

Natural Gravity lensing proved Einstein's Theory of Relativity (during an eclipse in 1914 in an Australian Chicken Coop, if I remember correctly), and is a natural phenomon oberserved by (and taken advantage by) astronomy all the time. Supermassive objects are known to bend the light of objects behind them, allowing the far objects to show up beside the massive object - occasionally "twinning" and showing up on both sides of the massive object as the gravity bends the light.

We just havn't figured out how to produce enough gravity ourselves to do it ourselves (yet)

So I would not say that is in Weber's legal backyard either.

crewdude48 wrote:

SharkHunter wrote:Similar question to fanfic but different: at what level is "enough tech" considered Honorverse, and when is it not? that is, the idea of going colony to cryo to multiplier's of lightspeed isn't new, fusion engines, not, grav waves, I presume not, wormholes not, but as soon as you say "grav based impellers", and Warshawski sails" obviously you've crossed a line. Same thing for "bomb pumped laser heads" and "grav lensing" crossing lines, but...

AKA I enjoy it here, but wanna "play" resulting in a community a la the Grantville Gazette, what think y'all?

The Grantville Gazette is why I stopped reading that universe.

Well, sorta similar. The reason I stopped reading that series is because it petered out, and the cost of subscription to "the gazette" was too dang high. If they wanted to release a DVD/ISO of all of the issues then to now for a reasonable dollar figure, I'd likely ante up, because at worst I can skip any of the bits I don't find interesting.

That said, if there were an acceptable "spin off" to the main line series, as writers would y'all want to play?

crewdude48 wrote:

SharkHunter wrote:Similar question to fanfic but different: at what level is "enough tech" considered Honorverse, and when is it not? that is, the idea of going colony to cryo to multiplier's of lightspeed isn't new, fusion engines, not, grav waves, I presume not, wormholes not, but as soon as you say "grav based impellers", and Warshawski sails" obviously you've crossed a line. Same thing for "bomb pumped laser heads" and "grav lensing" crossing lines, but...

AKA I enjoy it here, but wanna "play" resulting in a community a la the Grantville Gazette, what think y'all?

The Grantville Gazette is why I stopped reading that universe.

SharkHunter wrote:
Well, sorta similar. The reason I stopped reading that series is because it petered out, and the cost of subscription to "the gazette" was too dang high. If they wanted to release a DVD/ISO of all of the issues then to now for a reasonable dollar figure, I'd likely ante up, because at worst I can skip any of the bits I don't find interesting.

That said, if there were an acceptable "spin off" to the main line series, as writers would y'all want to play?

Oh yes. And how!

I'd love to espouse and elaborate on this.

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