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Topic Started: Dec 14 2004, 03:28 PM (107 Views)
CV6 Enterprise
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I'm writing this book, tenativly called Endeavor, about the crew of a warship in the year 2945 during a massive war. I need something to call the faster than light drive. Right now, it's called LS for light speed, but I'd like something more technological sounding. Warp drive is already taken, and wasn't hyperdrive used in the Star Wars movies? I've only seen the Star Wars trilogy once, so I'm not sure. I've though of LISPFA, for LIght SPeed FActor. The sublight speed is called IEPP for Ion Engine Percentage Power. Do any of you have any ideas?

Thanks
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Sophie
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Keeper of the spider-cats
hyperspeed?
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Dr. Noah
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Wormhole Drive, Quantum Fusion Drive, Slipstream Drive, Contragravity Drive, Anti-matter Drive, Spacefold Drive,
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Dandandat
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Time to put something here
How is your faster then light technology suppose to work? along the same lines as warp propulsion form star trek? How is it powered? Who invented it?
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Dandandat
Dec 14 2004, 02:51 PM
How is your faster then light technology suppose to work? along the same lines as warp propulsion form star trek? How is it powered? Who invented it?

I honestly hadn't put that much thought into it.
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Fesarius
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Mighty fast? :)
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bonja
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You could always name it after its inventor, for example The Smith Drive.
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Hoss
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Ludicrous Speed drive (see Mel Brooks thread).

Seriously, how about just FTL drive? Superluminal? You could always just put abunch sciency sounding syllabuls together: posigluonical.

Mabey this should be in the underwear thread, but my Fruit of the Looms have FTL on the waste band and I always think of them as my Faster Than Light underwear, though I am not sure what that means.
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Fesarius
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Admiral
Or the Jones Complex.
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ds9074
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SWIFT (Space Warp Interstellar Fast Transit) or slightly differently, SWIFT-light Drive (Space Warp Interstellar Faster Than Light Drive)
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Fesarius
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DS,

I like that, despite it is an acronym. ;)
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