Jonathan_S wrote:Well I suspect that there might well be a signal in the Alpha bands from transitioning up into them from normal space — but you’re right that there’s no signal of the departure in normal space; so the Ghost’s departure wouldn’t have been noticed.Theemile wrote:There is no "up" translation signal. No one sees you jump into hyper from normal space, only the downward translation gives off a signal (you are dissipating so much energy with the down translation.)- they will just see your drive signal disappear.
Though I’m not sure why you’d have to be dissipating more energy going down; the Alpha wall bleeds off 92% of your velocity in either direction. (Though in practice ships tend to be moving much faster when starting a downward transition)
you'd see the emergence signature in the alpha band where the energy is being dumped in an upward transition.