OK i have a ship built around an artificial intelligence by the Altese. This artificial intelligence talks to MAMA ( a huge space station/ship building facility) regularly, to share info. The PC party travels through a rift. while on the other side of the rift can the AI send info to MAMA. thus reveling info on the other side of the rift? While the rift is open?
Any thoughts?
Time, Space and technology.
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Time, Space and technology.
Sureshot wrote:Listen you young whippersnappers in my day we had to walk for 15 no 30 miles to the nearest game barefoot both ways. We had real books not PDFS and we carried them on carts we pulled ourselves that we built by hand. We had Thaco and we were happy. If we needed dice we carved ours out of wood. Petrified wood just because we could.
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
I would say, yes, as long as the rift is open.
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
Cool
How long does a tach burst take? and how much data is contained in a tach pack?
How long does a tach burst take? and how much data is contained in a tach pack?
Sureshot wrote:Listen you young whippersnappers in my day we had to walk for 15 no 30 miles to the nearest game barefoot both ways. We had real books not PDFS and we carried them on carts we pulled ourselves that we built by hand. We had Thaco and we were happy. If we needed dice we carved ours out of wood. Petrified wood just because we could.
Re: Time, Space and technology.
Depends on the Rift, some you can view through so presumably radio would travel through as well, some though unless you physically pass through them you've no idea what's on the other side. But there's always the 'remote controlled' unit that's on a cable so you've a physical connection across the Rift to transmit data.
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It's 'canon', not 'cannon'. A cannon is a big gun like on pirate ships, canon is what you mean when referring to something as being contained within one of the books such as how many dice to roll for a stat.
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
Also depends on the compression ratio of the (encrypted) tach signal. A really good comm system, especially one managed by advanced AIs, should be able to handle quite dense data packets.
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
Greyaxe wrote:How long does a tach burst take?
Travels outward from its source at 100 light-years/hour (500 lyr/hr if going through empty, intergalactic space).
From Alpha Centauri to Earth in 2.7 minutes.
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
Braden Campbell wrote:Greyaxe wrote:How long does a tach burst take?
Travels outward from its source at 100 light-years/hour (500 lyr/hr if going through empty, intergalactic space).
From Alpha Centauri to Earth in 2.7 minutes.
Agreed, but how long does an AI take to create one and how much data is transmitted?
Sureshot wrote:Listen you young whippersnappers in my day we had to walk for 15 no 30 miles to the nearest game barefoot both ways. We had real books not PDFS and we carried them on carts we pulled ourselves that we built by hand. We had Thaco and we were happy. If we needed dice we carved ours out of wood. Petrified wood just because we could.
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
taalismn wrote:Also depends on the compression ratio of the (encrypted) tach signal. A really good comm system, especially one managed by advanced AIs, should be able to handle quite dense data packets.
How much date do you think in GB's? I am estimating 5 GB per melee. too much or too little?
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
Greyaxe wrote:taalismn wrote:Also depends on the compression ratio of the (encrypted) tach signal. A really good comm system, especially one managed by advanced AIs, should be able to handle quite dense data packets.
How much date do you think in GB's? I am estimating 5 GB per melee. too much or too little?
I wouldn't try to hard to put hard numbers on it. Anything that sounds 'cool' now will sound 'obsolete' in a few years...if that.
but to put in perspective, 5GB/Melee is .333MB/Second. *shrugs* Why not just say 'lots of data' or 'not so much data'?
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
Braden Campbell wrote:I would say, yes, as long as the rift is open.
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
eliakon wrote:Greyaxe wrote:taalismn wrote:Also depends on the compression ratio of the (encrypted) tach signal. A really good comm system, especially one managed by advanced AIs, should be able to handle quite dense data packets.
How much date do you think in GB's? I am estimating 5 GB per melee. too much or too little?
I wouldn't try to hard to put hard numbers on it. Anything that sounds 'cool' now will sound 'obsolete' in a few years...if that.
but to put in perspective, 5GB/Melee is .333MB/Second. *shrugs* Why not just say 'lots of data' or 'not so much data'?
modern high speed fiber optic systems (the best we got in the early 21st century) can get upwards of 15 terabit per second speeds. that's about 187,500 megabytes a second.
per melee you'd be looking at 2,812,500 megabytes moved using the highest speed fiber optic system.
given Phaseworld tech is many orders of magnitude more advanced than our best right now, it seems more pluasible to me to just say "a lot" and make it speed of plot.. if players think it takes too much time, just claim the phaseworld sensors are sending data in multiply redundant, encrypted signals at high fidelity.. to ensure decent reception of the info.
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
The 'opacity' of any given Rift is up to you and/or your GM.Greyaxe wrote:OK i have a ship built around an artificial intelligence by the Altese. This artificial intelligence talks to MAMA ( a huge space station/ship building facility) regularly, to share info. The PC party travels through a rift. while on the other side of the rift can the AI send info to MAMA. thus reveling info on the other side of the rift? While the rift is open?
Any thoughts?
There are Rifts of virtually every conceivable level of opacity strewn throughout the various Books, from those that are somehow powerful enough to allow one-way dumping of waste material into a star (without the star's super-deadly radiation and heat going through the other way) to Rifts that are connected to entire dimensions full of water, but which only allow enough water to get through to keep local wells filled.
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Re: Time, Space and technology.
Greyaxe wrote:OK i have a ship built around an artificial intelligence by the Altese. This artificial intelligence talks to MAMA ( a huge space station/ship building facility) regularly, to share info. The PC party travels through a rift. while on the other side of the rift can the AI send info to MAMA. thus reveling info on the other side of the rift? While the rift is open?
Any thoughts?
It depends on four things: 1 how the ship and station communicate, 2 if the other side of the rift is in the same dimension as the starting rift, 3 how long the rift stays open, and 4 the nature of the rift.
However, because all of these are variables so no one answer can be given to cover all of them.
So the answer is: yes/no/maybe
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