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Originally Posted by Anthrage
So the idea is that the movement of the void - as space shifts to fill it - is predictable, directly related to the amount of time the ship maintains it's field. When the ship turns the field on, it slips out of space - when it turns it back on, it slips back in - at the destination point. The orientation - the direction - of the 'slippage' would be determined by the orientation of the field when it is activated. Assuming that the field could do what it is supposed to do, and that space would behave as described, this latter aspect would provide the necessary control. In theory.  |
So what would the distance of it's ability to "warp" be?
LOL, I get a mental image of playing interstellar hopscotch using short-distance spacewarps.
I do get what you're saying, but it wouldn't be "sliding" as I am seeing this per se, it'd be more of a "swap" between the initial position and final position of each "hop". Therefore your vessel could theoretically travel through a solid body as it would always be having itself plus an area of empty space being swapped for whatever was in its path.
But the question stands to ask.. if the warp direction is able to be controlled.. why not extend it 5 feet? 10 feet? 10 km? 10MM km?